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Announcing New Exciting
Manuals in English and in Spanish from IFS!

"Expanding Therapeutic Conversations and Transforming Outcomes Through Film Narratives"

We now have manuals for children, adolescents and adults!

"Expanding Therapeutic Conversations" is a unique, step-by-step manual that allows you to introduce critical components of the Cultural Context Model (CCM) to your clients. Employing provocative film narratives, this indispensable manual gives you both concrete tools and detailed instructions on how to use multimedia to help your clients identify power, privilege and oppression in their daily lives. A FREE DVD of film edits accompanies this manual including--among many others--clips from Straight out of Brooklyn, Ordinary People Boyz in the Hood, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Girl Fight, Love and Basketball and many more..

Click here to download an introduction to the
Manual and samples of the film vignettes that are used for dialogue and inquiry.

Get Step-By-Step Guidance for
Your Practice and Your Clients.

COST: $999.00, INCLUDING A FREE BONUS DVD OF
FILM EDITS -- ORDER TODAY!

Click here for a pdf order form.

 

Projects we are currently involved in:

Collaboration with Progresando en Comunidad.

Social justice Models in Family Therapy.
Research and student initiatives are conducted by Dr. Pilar Hernandez & Dr. Andrae Brown. Student projects are on-going at the institute.

Asian Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence (API).
Dr. Almeida will represent API at The National BIP Conference Alliance in 2008. Click here for more on the Asian Pacific Islander Institute.

Indian Family Therapy Association Delhi, India.

Publications:

Critical Consciousness, Accountability, and Empowerment: Key Processes for Helping Families Heal. by Pilar Hernandez, Rhea Almeida & Ken Dolan-Delvecchio. Click here for a PDF of this document.

Transformative Family Therapy: Just Families in a Just Society. Rhea Almeida, Ph.D., LCSW., Dolan-Delvecchio & Parker. Click here for more information. Click here to order.

Expansions of Feminist Family Theory Through Diversity. Rhea Almeida, Ph.D., LCSW., Editor. Click here for more information.

Transformations of Gender and Race: Family and Developmental Perspectives. Rhea Almeida, Ph.D., LCSW., Editor. Click here for more information.

The Cultural Context Model: Therapy for Couples with Domestic Violence. By Rhea Almeida, Ph.D., LCSW., in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 7/1/99. Click here for more information.

Engendering Change: Transforming Gender Roles In Asian & Pacific Islander Communities. Chic Dabby and Grace Poore. This publication is based on a series of API roundtable discussions in which Dr. Rhea Almeida was a key participant. Click here for a PDF of this document.

Cultural equity: Bridging the complexity of social identities with therapeutic practicesby Rhea Almeida, Pilar Hernández-Wolfe and Carolyn Tubbs. (2011).. Click here for a PDF of this document.

CLICK HERE For a full list of publications by Rhea Almeida, LCSW, Ph.D.

If you would like to learn more about working with the Institute for Family Services,
please call us at 732-873-1663 or e-mail us at WeCare4UIFS@gmail.com.

Institute for Family Services, 3 Clyde Road, Suite 101, Somerset, NJ 08873

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