- The Workshop takes place annually and is organized by the Family Institute – FTSA to promote actions to develop knowledge and exchange experiences between professionals and students in different areas.This is a Workshop that is part of the course’s curriculum: Specialization in Couple and Family Therapy. It is open to other professionals and undergraduate students in the areas: Biological, Human, Social and Health, who want to improve their knowledge.
- LYNN JACOB (1999, EUA) “Divorce, Mediation in Divorce and Remarriage”
- MARIA TEREZA SCHOELLER (1999, Brazil) “Hospice in Brazil – The terminally ill patient living with dignity”
- MARILENE MARODIN (1999, Brazil) “Couple care: strategies and techniques in clinical practice”
- JORGE MALDONADO (2000, EUA) “Couple and Family Therapy today: approaches, advances and setbacks”
- JORGE MALDONADO (2000, EUA) “The stages of marriage: child, adolescent and adult” (Seminar 1)
- JORGE MALDONADO (2000, EUA) “Families of the Bible: their crises and their life cycle” (Seminar 2)
- JORGE MALDONADO (2000, EUA) “The family, loss and the rituals involved in it” (Seminar 3)
- JORGE MALDONADO (2000, EUA) “The family and network therapy” (Seminar 4)
- ANA GEORGIA CAVALCANTI DE MELO (2001, Brazil) “Palliative care, so that the terminally ill patient lives with dignity”
- THOMAS TODD (2001, EUA) “Family Therapy, Drug Abuse and Addictions”
- MARIA JÚLIA PAES DA SILVA (2002 and 2004, Brazil) “Interpersonal communication and relationships” and “Interpersonal relationships with patients and staff”
- SUSAN D. WATSON (2003, EUA) “Conflicts in the couple and in the family and resolution of these conflicts”
- GISLAYNE AVELAR DE MATOS (maio/2004 Brazil) “Stories and metaphors in the therapeutic process”
- GISLAYNE AVELAR DE MATOS (outubro/2004 Brazil) “The use of stories and metaphors in therapy: Initiatory path and therapeutic process”
- FERNANDO TOMÁS ACOSTA (2004, Brazil) “The role of the therapist in working with men who cause violence in the family context”
- MICHAEL WHITE (2006, Austrália) “Narrative Dialogues in clinical practice and communities” (as support)
- ROSELY SAYÃO (2006. Brazil) “The polarity between negligent parents and overprotective parents”
- LEANNE HARDY (2006, África do Sul) “Learning to write stories for children: creativity methodology”
- CORINNA SCHABBEL e VERÔNICA CEZAR-FERREIRA (2003, Brazil) I Mediation Forum: “Other forms of pacification”
- CORINNA SCHABBEL (2004, Brazil) II Mediation Forum: “Mediation in family crises and its interface with justice”
- JUAN CARLOS VEZZULLA (2006, Brazil) III Mediation Forum: “Mediation in family crises and its interface with justice”
- LEILA CONCEIÇÃO ROSA DOS SANTOS (2008, Brazil) “Aid relationship and traumatic injuries (paraplegia, tetraplegia, amputations and others) – Redimensioning limitations and possibilities”
- FROMA WALSH (2008, EUA) “Strengthening family resilience: Facilitating recovery and growth in situations of crisis, trauma and adversity”
- JOHN ROLLAND (2010, EUA) “A model of care for families with chronic, terminal illnesses and losses”
- MICHELE SCHEINKMAN (2011, EUA) “Impasses, intimacy, jealousy and infidelity in couples therapy”
- TERRI SUE WATSON (2012, EUA) “How to evaluate and treat families in abuse situations”
- MARY JO BARRETT (2013, EUA) “Interrupting the trauma cycle: How to assist families with complex trauma”
- DAVID VAN DYKE (2014, EUA) “The couple and intimacy: strengthening connections through vulnerability”
- MONA FISHBANE (2015, EUA) “Loving with the brain: Integration of Neurobiology with couples therapy”
- DAVID VAN DYKE (2016, EUA) “From intentionality to reactivity: Murray Bowen’s approach”
- MARY JO BARRETT e LINDA STONE FISH (2017, EUA) “Trauma, complex development: Healing relationships and the brain”
- WILLIAM STRUTHERS (2018, EUA) “The brain, compulsions and pornography”
- JOHN ROLLAND (2019, EUA) “Aging, the brain, its disorders and resources in family therapy”
- VALERIA MEIRELLES (2023, Brazil) “Couples and money: Multiple forms of coexistence in contemporary society”
- DENIZE ZUGMAN (2024, Brazil) “Stories Tales as a resource in couple and family therapy”