Harry Aponte

Harry Aponte, ACSW, is currently a Professor at Hahneman University in Philadelphia, and is the Director of the Family Therapy Training Program of Philadelphia.

Mr. Aponte is a family therapist with a special interest in the treatment of the poor, and many of the problems associated with poverty, including the single parent family, sexual and physical abuse in families, school failure, and crime. His eco-structural approach combines family therapy with a community perspective.

Focusing on the social disadvantaged has led him to explore and write about the relationship between therapist’s personal lives and their therapy. He trains therapist to work with the differences between themselves and their clients in ethnicity, values, socioeconomic status and personal life experience.

Mr. Aponte has published extensively in relation to family treatment pertaining to ethnic minorities and the economically disadvantaged. He is an advisory editor to journals in this country and abroad, and lectures and conducts training in the United States, Europe, and South America.

Films with Harry Aponte

Ramon G. Corrales, Ph.D.

Ramon G. Corrales, Ph.D. has been a family therapist and organizational consultant for over 25 years. Co-Director of a program known as the Family Institute Associates, he trained a generation of family therapists in the central part of the United States.

Increasingly engaged as a consultant by the corporate sector, he founded Corporate Mastery USA. In 2001, he co-authored with Charles Rhodes, Psy. D., The Congruent Leader; an Integral Model for the Evolution of Effective Leadership.

In addition to consultation with the management of major corporations Dr. Corrales continues to lecture and teach institutes across the United States.

Films with Ramon Corrales

Virginia Satir

Virginia Satir was one of the early pioneers of family therapy and was the first Training Director at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto. In the early sixties, she published the now classic "CONJOINT FAMILY THERAPY", one of the earliest formulations of family systems theory and therapy. Her book "PEOPLEMAKING" perhaps best exemplifies her style of writing: comfortable and understandable for both lay and professional reader.

Virginia was a teacher and therapist par excellence. She utilized sight, sound, touch, metaphor, demonstration, dialogue and group exercises in the process of change and learning. Watching her at work is inspiring and a catalyst for an integrative left and right brain experience.

Although Virginia Satir's theory is primarily identified with the communication approach, and secondarily with the experiential, it is nevertheless accurate to state that her therapy defies being categorized with any one approach. Virginia's therapy in action embodies the major tenets of all the schools of family therapy. Her work with triads and sculpting deal with boundary and hierarchical issues in the family (structural and strategic). Her specific description and framing of outcomes and problems complements the work of the Palo Alto Group (of which, by the way, she was a founding member). Her attention to intergenerational forces is evident in almost every therapy session she conducts, not to mention her very unique intergenerational model called "family reconstruction." Few would, of course, question the experiential basis of her work, always at the pulse of people's affective, emotional experience of therapy.

The four live interviews and the one didactic -(lecture/discussion) tape described in this brochure are arguably the best available Virginia Satir teaching films. They have been distributed through universities and social agencies throughout the United States and Canada. These films are in media libraries in Hong Kong, Argentina, England, Germany, Israel, the Soviet Union and numerous other locations around the globe. They have been chosen for feature presentation at film festivals for many national conferences including the American Psychological Association, American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, The American Family Therapy Association, and the National Association of Social Workers.

Films with Virginia Satir