Breakout Session 1 2021
Different Ways Military Wives’ Emotionally Prepare for Deployment Day
Presenter
Bryan Cafferky PhD, LMFT, CFLE
Associate Faculty
Loma Linda University
Presenter
Sarah Beaver MA, LMFT
Doctoral student
Loma Linda University
Presenter
Carmenoemi Angela Reyes MS, AMFT
Doctoral student
Loma Linda University
This qualitative research explored how 13 military wives emotionally prepared for deployments, and how their preparation affected the degree of emotional difficulty they experienced on deployment day
Understanding Adult Insecure Attachment in Clinical Practice
Presenter
Christiana Howell
Counselor
Trilogy Counseling
Participants will get the opportunity to engage in a discussion of the clinical applicability of attachment styles and its applicability to our own daily lives. Understanding attachment can help you better communicate and relate to others in your life who are important to you.
Nurturing Spiritual and Emotional Intimacy through Family Worship
Presenter
Les Ackie
Director for Family/Children’s Ministries
British Union
This presentation highlights both the vital importance of family worship and its decline in the world church. Evidence will be shown that children’s spirituality can be nurtured best when healthy attachments are established from birth through the formative years. The presentation also explores the nature of children’s spirituality and how they learn best according to their learning styles, through play and the sharing of personal stories that build empathy and trust among family members. The presentation concludes with practical suggestions for life-changing family worship.
Exploratory Study of Conflict in African Immigrants and African American Marriages
Presenter
Cornelius Ayodeji Osuntade
Pastor
Texas Conference
Conflict, generally, is ubiquitous; So also, is marital conflict. What is important for us to bother about is not the absence of conflict in human relationship but the handling of conflict. Conflict resolution, if probably done, may be able to strengthen marital relationships; hence, Couples’ goals and objectives should hinge basically on how to ensure that unresolvable marital conflicts are reduced if not completely eradicated.