2008 Board, Committees, Sections & Focus Group Meetings - Alphabetical
2008 Board, Committees, Sections & Focus Group Meetings - Chronological
2007 Family Therapy Section Minutes (pdf document)
2007-2008 Family Therapy Section Plan of Work (pdf document)
NCFR FAMILY THERAPY SECTION
Membership Business Meeting Minutes
November 2007 - Pittsburgh, PA
The membership meeting of the Family Therapy section was called to order by Chair Colleen Peterson. A get well card for Tony Jurich was circulated for members to sign.
Section Officers were introduced: Chair: Colleen Peterson, Chair-Elect: Jeffry Larson, Secretary/Treasurer: Susan Meyerle, Member-at-large: D. Kim Openshaw, Section Liaison: Megan Dolbin-McNab, Student/New Professional: Robert Gellman, Current Nominating Committee members: Carmen Knudson-Martin, Richard Wampler, Carolyn Tubbs.
Last year’s minutes were read, Linda Ladd moved for approval with a second by Matt Muchler. Motion carried. The current financial report was read; Kim Openshaw moved for approval with a second by Jeff Larson. Motion carried
Chair Peterson reviewed the submissions for this year’s conference. Our section had 42 submissions which is an increase of one from last year. These submissions reflected around 9% of the total NCFR submissions. Of those 42 submissions, 6 were chosen as paper, symposia or workshop sessions, 18 were selected as posters and 3 were chosen as roundtables.
Awards from our section were presented by our chair. The Student Paper Award was presented to David Cordova for his paper, “They Just Spit in Our Face: Conversations about Perceived Challenges and Strengths with Mexican American Youth”. He received a $400 award. Two student poster awards will be given; each award winner receives a $125 check. The New Professional Paper Award of $400 was presented to Matthew Multcher for his paper “Therapist Personal Agency: Multidimensional Selves of Marriage and Family Therapists”.
Changes to section membership were reviewed. NCFR is no longer requiring members to pay for section membership effective January 1, 2008. Each section will be given $2,500 each year in lieu of membership fees. This amount will not be carried over to subsequent years and sections will retain balances in their current accounts. A budget is requested by NCFR for our section. We reviewed the current award expenditures of $1050 and expenses for our chair to travel to the Spring Conference Committee Meeting. This is a variable expense with last year’s expenses totally $800. An additional night of hotel expense will be included in this year’s budget.
Section By-laws need to be updated and changed to reflect current NCFR structure. One change is our Section Chair no longer serves on the Board of Directors. Another change is needed to reflect the responsibilities of the Liaison. The by-laws also need updated consistent with our elections. Expenditures need to be updated and need to reflect that the section pays for our Chair to attend the Conference Program Committee Meeting each spring. Section awards and the process for determining award recipients needs to be outlined and included. Criteria for the Student Paper Award were discussed. Those who would like to be considered for the Student Paper award need to meet to following eligibility criteria:
1. Applicant must be a student at time of abstract submission
2. Student must be the 1st author on the paper.
3. Student must be in attendance at the NCFR conference and able to present their paper.
4. Student must be a member of NCFR and of the MFT section.
5. The paper presentation must have been submitted to the MFT section.
6. Student must submit an electronic copy of the complete paper (not the long abstract) by the award deadline (two weeks prior to the conference).
Dale Hawley moved to changed the by-laws with a second by Volker Thomas. Motion passed.
Nominations of officers was discussed. Nominations are needed by December 20th. Nominations from the floor were:
Chair-Elect: none
Secretary/Treasurer: Linda Ladd
Member-at-large: Jared Anderson
Liaison: Susan Meyerle and Cody Holist
Student/New Professional: Tony Faber
The newly elected Nominating Committee was introduced: Adrian Blow, Megan Murphy, Brandon Silverthorn. If other nominations are identified, please email Colleen Peterson.
Next year’s conference was discussed. The conference theme is “Lenses on Family” and will be held in Little Rock, Arkansas. The deadline for submission of proposals is March 1, 2008. Calls for Abstracts are in the conference packets and on the NCFR website. A signup sheet was circulated for those willing to review abstracts, review student award papers/posters, review new professional papers and for presider/moderator/discussant. A short discussion ensued regarding the role of the presider/moderator/discussant. The Executive Committee will discuss guidelines for these roles.
Jeff Larson moved and Jerica Burge seconded a motion to increase awards to $500. Motion passed. Additional discussion followed regarding our current funds. A motion was made by Linda Ladd to expend $3000 to co-sponsor a plenary speaker. Jeff Larson seconded. This cost would cover their airfare and honorarium. Other sections for potential co-sponsors included: Feminism and Family Studies and the Ethnic Minority section. Suggested plenary speakers were: Ken Hardy, Pauline Boss, Dorothy Beckvar, Marty Seligman, Terry Hargrave. Christy McGeorge moved, with a second by David Cordova to extend an invitation to Ken Hardy. Chair Peterson will follow up on this request. If other names of plenary speakers are identified, members should email Chair Peterson.
Additionally, discussion involved increasing awards, providing a student conference registration free, using our funds for marketing. Cody Hollist suggested placing an ad or column in the NCFR report. Jeff Larson suggested pulling names by job and mailing invitations. Volker Thomas suggested personal email invitations. No action was taken on these suggestions.
Megan Dolbin-McNab moved to adjourn with a second from Kim Openshaw. Meeting adjourned.
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