International Systemic Research Conference 2017

30/03/2017

Two weeks have passed since the conference in Heidelberg, we had the chance to relax a little... Now it is time to thank you for your contributions, your thoughtful and intensive preparations, your often very lively presentations, your chairing of events and for your contributions to the discussions during the conference.

It was wonderful meeting you!

Check out some visual impressions of the event and browse through the keynote presentations at www.isr2017.com/review/

– Your Organizing Team

The International Systemic Research Conference 2017 at the Heidelberg University is directed by Prof. Jochen Schweitzer and Prof. Matthias Ochs. National and international partners in the field of systemic research and practice support the conference and contribute their ideas.

06/02/2017

+++ Violence in Families – a Challenge for Practitioners and Researchers +++

Empirical data show clearly: Correlations between experienced violence and mental disorders like depression, somatoform, anxiety or traumatic disorders are high.
Meanwhile, violence in close relationships has been increasing over the last decades.

We are very proud that three of the best known international experts in the field of systemic approaches in understanding, researching and treating family, domestic and partner violence accepted our invitation to come to Heidelberg:

Sandra Stith, Distinguished Professor at the School of Family Studies and Human Services“ of Kansas State University has received funding from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in the U.S. She will give an overview on systemic research on couple therapy for partner violence.

Justine Van Lawick and Margreet Visser from Haarlem/Netherlands are two extremely experienced family therapists regarding family violence. They will talk about their actual High Conflict Divorce project „No Kids in the Middle“.
This project is a wonderful example how clinical practice and systemic research can go together and influence each other. Justine is also author of the excellent book “Intimate Warfare: Regarding the Fragility of Family Relations“.

We are looking forward to the discussion!

30/01/2017

+++ Ten Travel Awards of 300 Euros for young researchers from Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa or Latin America +++

We are cordially inviting young researchers, who would like to participate but are lacking the necessary funding, to apply for a travel award of 300 Euros.

If you wish to apply, please register online and send the following documents to isr.2017[at]med.uni-heidelberg.de:
(1) a brief informal letter about your motivation to participate an the ISR Conference and your current income situation
(b) a short CV of yours

You can still submit a proposal for a poster presentation, however this is not required for the application.

We are looking forward to your application!

– Your conference team

The International Systemic Research Conference 2017 at the Heidelberg University is directed by Prof. Jochen Schweitzer and Prof. Matthias Ochs. National and international partners in the field of systemic research and practice support the conference and contribute their ideas.

28/01/2017

The Great Psychotherapy Debate: All just common sense...? – No! The debate is still going on!

The well-known “common factors model of psychotherapy” postulates that in order to explain treatment success of different approaches to psychotherapy or counselling, a set of common factors (such as clients’ social and biographical context, life events during therapy, strength of clients’ motivation, therapists’ personal qualities and the therapeutic relationship) are much more responsible as compared to particular methods or techniques for specific problems and disorders.

One of the international protagonists of the common factors model, Bruce Wampold (Wisconsin/USA and Modum Bad/Norway) will update you on the common factors model and the debate's relevance – for psychotherapy in general and for systemic therapy in particular.

Together with Günter Schiepek from Austria (who has developed a computer simulation of the common factors model), Jay Lebow from Chicago (current editor of “Family Process” and publisher of brilliant books about bridging research and practice in psychotherapy and counseling), Alan Carr from Dublin (who did some of the most important international reviews concerning family therapy interventions), Thomas Fydrich from Berlin (an advocate of behavior therapy who wants to take psychotherapy trainings into university settings to make them more “scientific”) and Kirsten von Sydow from Hamburg (who did a wonderful review of systemic RCT studies that has been a great help in the evaluation process of Systemic Therapy by German licensing authorities) you can expect an high-end brush-up on this topic!

05/12/2016

+++ Organizational Research +++

Thanks to our wonderful speakers, we will shed light on topics such as Emotions in Organizations, Leadership, Change Management, Digitalization, Learning Cultures and Job Mental Health in Business.

We will focus on understanding emotions and emotion-related conflicts in family businesses, dilemma management, and on how start-ups change traditional organizations.

How to establish learning cultures in organizations, what differentiates charismatic from postheroic leadership, how to stay healthy in challenging working environments, and which role digitalization plays in all of this – are among the many questions we will tackle at the conference.

Read more about our speakers on organizational research here:
http://www.isr2017.com/news_events/

The International Systemic Research Conference 2017 at the Heidelberg University is directed by Prof. Jochen Schweitzer and Prof. Matthias Ochs. National and international partners in the field of systemic research and practice support the conference and contribute their ideas.

22/08/2016

Dear ALL:.. we are thrilled and happy to launch our freshly baked website!
Here, you will be provided with all necessary information on the Conference: Easy and quick online registration, a wrap-up on our core topics, interesting portraits of our keynote speakers, a short walk through the history of the Conference until today ... among much more.

Enjoy – and stay tuned for regular updates: www.isr2017.com

The International Systemic Research Conference 2017 at the Heidelberg University is directed by Prof. Jochen Schweitzer and Prof. Matthias Ochs. National and international partners in the field of systemic research and practice support the conference and contribute their ideas.