ATFCPA
2002 Annual
Therapeutic Foster Care
Conference
Building Partnerships: Working Hand-in-Hand
October 2-4, 2002
Embassy Suites, Montgomery, Alabama
The Alabama Therapeutic Foster Care Providers Association (ATFCPA) is dedicated to promoting more consistent and quality treatment services for therapeutic foster care children.
Effective Clinical Franklian Psychological Strategies
With Foster Parents and Foster Children
Presented by Rosemary Henrion, MSN, M.Ed., RN
Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Clinical Session
Sponsored by Therapeutic Programs, Inc.
Rosemary Henrion
, MSN, M.Ed., RN, Mental Health Professional, is one of the first Americans to be certified at the highest level (Diplomate) by the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy. She worked for 20 years with Dr. James Crumbaugh, Ph.D., and the first American to be certified at the highest level for his major contributions to the field of Logotherapy. Dr. Frankl credits Dr. Crumbaugh for bringing Logotherapy into the scientific arena through Crumbaugh’s research in developing the Purpose in Life Test, an international tool used presently in Logotherapy.Educated at the University of Texas (BSN), Vanderbilt University (MSN), and University of Southern Mississippi (M.Ed.), Mrs. Henrion served in staff educational and administrative positions in private/federal sectors. She has presented papers for professional conferences in Beijing, Shanghai, San Francisco, Toronto, Vienna, Buenos Aires, Rome, Kansas City, Dallas, Mobile and San Antonio. Mrs. Henrion is also an author and a researcher. She is certified as a medical psychotherapist (Fellow/Diplomate) by the American Board of Medical Psychotherapy and Psychodiagnosticians and a professional psychotherapist (Diplomate) by the International Academy of Behavioral Medicine, Counseling, and Psychotherapy. Mrs. Henrion is a long time member of the International Board of Directors of the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy. Mrs. Henrion was employed at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Biloxi, Gulfport, and Pensacola for 29 plus years. Twenty-four years were spent in the role of clinician. Clients were refereed by Mental Health teams/professionals at Gulfport Division and Pensacola Clinic. Professionals at Biloxi (Medical-Surgical Hospital) referred clients. Over 3,000 clients were referred to the specialized program in Franklian Psychology. Clients were treated in inpatient/outpatient settings. She also has a clinical background in maternal/child health.
The most recent contributions to publishing include an academic best seller by Dr. H. G. Rosenthal, Ed. D. (Ed), Favorite Counseling and Therapy Techniques, 51 Therapists Share Their Most Creative Strategies (1998). A sequel to this book was published in 2000 by the same 51 therapists using actual homework assignments. Mrs. Henrion is co-editor of the The Power of the Human Spirit to be published in Fall, 2002.
The Workshop
Franklian Psychology stresses individuals’ main motivation for living is to have meaning and purpose in life. It is their deepest desire to make sense of their lives despite chaos, injustice, suffering, and boredom. This goal can be accomplished by including the third dimension—THE HUMAN SPIRIT, which is the resource of health. Mrs. Henrion will provide the principles, concepts, and their dynamic applications with foster parents and their children. It is absolutely essential for effective partnerships to exist between spouses, among their children, and the professionals who work with them so that the highest quality of life can be maintained.
Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy", was developed by Viktor Frankl and first published in 1938. It regards the search for meaning as the primary human motivation. Since persons are capable of deciding, they are also responsible for their decisions. A human being is not a mere puppet of biological, hereditary and environmental forces, but is always free to take a stand toward inner conditions and outer circumstances.
It is the objective of the psychotherapy based on this anthropological view to accompany the clients on the way to finding possibilities for concrete meaning in their respective life situations. Logotherapy offers help at re-orientation and recovery by strenghtening trust in the unconditional meaningfulness of life and the dignity of the person.
Logotherapy and Existential Analysis has been internationally recognized for decades as an empirically supported humanistic school of psychotherapy. Evidence for the growing significance of logotherapy includes institutes, societies and professorships in many countries of the world, as well as conferences and publications.
Viktor E. Frankl
was born in Vienna March 26, 1905; he died September 2, 1997 in Vienna.He was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna. He also was guest professor at several universities in the United States. He held 29 honorary doctorates from universities in all parts of the world.
From 1940 to 1942 Frankl was director of the Neurological Department of the Rothschild Hospital in Vienna, and from 1946 to 1970 he was director of the Neurological Policlinic of Vienna.
Frankl's 32 books have appeared in as many as 28 languages. According to a United States Library of Congress poll, his book "Man's Search for Meaning" is one of the ten most influential books among lifetime readers in America today.
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