Webinar: Triangles and Detriangling in Clinical Practice with Nydia Garcia Preto & Monica McGoldrick

Nydia Garcia Preto & Monica McGoldrick

About the Webinar:

This discussion will explore how triangles operate in family systems and how to help people “detriangle” or get unstuck from the triangles they have gotten into. We will discuss how relationships can get caught up into triangles and the power of detriangling. We will specifically discuss certain relationships that are often fraught with triangles such as in-laws and step-parent/step-child relationships.

About the Speakers:

Monica McGoldrick, LCSW, PhD (h.c.)

Teacher, author and family therapist. Books include: The Genogram Journey: Reconnecting with Your Family (2nd ed, 2011), Re-Visioning Family Therapy (2nd Ed. 2008), The Expanded Family Life Cycle (4th Ed., 2011), Ethnicity & Family Therapy (3rd Ed., 2005), Genograms Assessment and Intervention (3rd Ed., 2008), Women in Families, and Living Beyond Loss, (2nd Ed, 2004). Faculty, Psychiatry Dept., RWJ Medical School, Visiting Professor, Fordham University School of Social Service (1991-2001). Honorary Doctorate, SmithCollege School for Social Work(1991). American Family Therapy Academy Award (1988) for Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory & Practice. Formerly: Co-Director, Cultural Competence Training Center for Central NJ.

Nydia Garcia Preto, LCSW

Nydia Garcia Preto, MSW, L.C.S.W. is the Associate Director at the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Pk., NJ where she also has a Private Practice. Ms. Garcia Preto has been a Visiting Professor at the Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work, and was the Director of the Adolescent Day Hospital, at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She received her Masters in Social Work from Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work in1971 and her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at Rider College in 1967. A noted family therapist, author, teacher, and lecturer, she has published in textbooks and journals and presented nationally on Puerto Rican and Latino families, Latinas, immigration, ethnic intermarriage, and families with adolescents. She co edited the last edition of Ethnicity and Family Therapy with Monica McGoldrick and Joseph Giordano, as well as The Expanded Family Life Cycle with McGoldrick, and Carter. Ms. Garcia Preto was presented the Frantz Fanon, M.D. Award by the Post Graduate Center for Mental Health in recognition of her work with families with adolescents, and especially Puerto Rican and Latino families, as well as the Social Justice Award from the American Family Therapy Academy. She also is a highly respected trainer in the area of Cultural Competence, and has conducted training for trainers and for staff at many settings, including schools, institutions of higher learning, social service agencies, hospitals, and mental health centers.