MFGT Training Opportunities

Multiple Family Group Therapy Training

July 20, 2025 to July 25, 2025

58th International Rudolf Dreikers Summer School

Collinsville, Illinois, USA

Registration:  www.icassi.net or info.icassi@gmail.com

Presenter: James Holder, MA, LPC, MAC

 of  www.PositiveIntentions.org   Located in Effingham, SC

(843) 621-0791

Jim Holder will be presenting two hours a day Monday thru Friday of the first week of the Dreikers Summer School, in the mornings, on The Treatment of Addictions and in the afternoon for two hours, he will present on Multiple Family Group Therapy (MFGT).  He will present a brief history of MFGT and will talk about H. Peter Laqueur, John T. Edwards, George H. Orvin, Rudolf Dreikers and Alfred Adler's approach to MFGT.

    Jim Holder has a long history of leading MFGT beginning in 1975 with parents and families and then later with addicted families and families with adolescents.

How can you work with individuals in a family without working with the family?

Come and find out, you'll be glad you did!

Due to the COVID-19 epidemic very little in-person training of any kind is taking place today.  The group in Spain and Tom Saunders, PhD, are holding MFGT sessions via the internet.

  See the "News and Views" section for contact information on the Spain group who are training therapists in Spain and South America and are willing to talk to you about getting training in their Intrafamily Model of MFGT.

Also, videos of the Father of Adolescent MFGT, George H. Orvin, MD, are on Youtube.