58th Symposium on Family Theory and Family Psychotherapy - Friday Morning

Includes the following presentations: 

Introduction – Carrie Collier Ph.D., LPC, CRC

Welcome to the Symposium – Carrie Collier, Ph.D., LPC, CRC 

Moderator: Laura R. Brooks, LCSW-C 

Harvester Ant Interactions and Human Emotional Process in Rapidly Changing Natural Environments - Leann Howard, LSCSW, LSMFT

Putting Others Together and Self Out - Laurie Lassiter, Ph.D., MSW

Toward the end of his life, Dr. Bowen emphasized putting two or more others together and self out as a way toward differentiation of self. This presentation is a transcript of such an effort, revealing its challenges.

Discussion

Ants as Diverse Social Animals and the Rold of Anatomy, Ecology, and Behavior in Their Evolutionary Success - Corrie Moreau, Ph.D

Traits from anatomy to behavior can influence the evolutionary and ecological success of an organism. With a robust phylogenetic hypothesis for a group, one can use this evolutionary family tree to ask how many times these traits have evolved when they arose and if they are linked to the diversification of groups of organisms. In this talk, Dr. Moreau explores how aspects of their anatomy, niche use for nesting, diet preference, and complex behavioral characters have evolved across the ants and what this tells us about their evolutionary and ecological success.