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Anne Ziff, a CT-Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with offices in
Westport and New York City, has been invited to participate in the
People to People Ambassador Programs' Marriage and Family Therapy
Delegation to the People's Republic of China in November in
conjunction with Beijing Normal University.
Delegates will represent the Marriage and Family Therapy profession
while advancing the ideals of People to People International, a
nonpolitical, private-sector organization dedicated to promoting
international understanding. Founded in 1956 by President Eisenhower,
the group encourages high level professional exchanges among
counterparts internationally.
Delegates are selected according to
their professional backgrounds and experience, and willingness to
contribute to personal exchanges of theory and clinical experiences.
Ziff, a 20-year private practitioner in Westport, emphasizes healthy
movement through life's transitions in both her clinical work and
writings. Areas of expertise for which she is recognized include:
successful and healthy negotiation of some of life's more challenging
transitions: - Engagement and Marriage;
- Becoming a parent;
- Peri-menopause and Menopause
- Mid-Life Opportunities, including
second Careers
- Remarriage
- Blending Families
- Divorce-and its
effect on all members of the family .
In China, she is preparing to discuss topics including:
- The treatment of Marital conflict, and attitudes and procedures around
divorce
- Child welfare issues
- Care and treatment of the aging
- Gender and family roles in times of economic change.
Ziff will participate in bi-lateral exchanges between professional counterparts in Beijing, Guilin, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, focusing on the role of Marriage and Family therapy in China. She hopes to return with a better understanding of cultural diversity in China, and to be able to apply that to her own caseload. Further, she hopes to learn how the care and treatment of an aging population in China can be useful in our own aging population. She will also discuss research on social interventions for family issues, sexuality and sexual issues, and Family Therapy training, all of which are expected to affect her thinking and practice of therapy after the program.
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