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Clinical Conference
July 11, 2008
Autism and the Family
Michael E. Kerr, MD
9:30-3:30
Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church
3401 Nebraska Avenue NW, Washington, DC (see link above for directions)
Autism (Autism Spectrum Disorder) has become one of the most widely discussed and intensively researched clinical entities in medicine. Passionate debate exists about the reasons for a dramatic increase in the number of children diagnosed to be on the autistic spectrum. Many clinicians and parents are so allergic to hints of blaming the family that, beyond saying it is difficult for families to cope with an ASD child, families are rarely discussed. This conference will use didactic material and taped interviews with the parents of ASD children to describe the family emotional process involved in ASD.
Thursday Professional Lecture
July 10, 2008
Updating the Unidisease Concept
Michael E. Kerr, MD, Director, The Bowen Center
7:30 PM
Georgetown Family Center
Dr. Kerr proposed that the unidisease model become a new concept in Bowen theory at the 2006 Annual Family Symposium. The plan was to publish a journal article about the concept. This remains a work in progress, but new facts are continually being discovered supporting the idea that all clinical diagnostic categories have important family emotional and biological processes in common. These processes are better predictors of clinical outcome than the particular diagnostic label. The presentation will update the current status of this concept.
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