Central Public For Mental Health (CPMH) was organized a workshop called Building Strong Families. The event was held for two days, from January 15 to 16, 2020 at Auditorium G-100. It was attended by 99 audiences who has psychology as educational backgroud, rerearcher, lecturer and housewife.
Prof. Sylvia Asay from University of Nebraska at Kearney, Amerika Serikat was the speaker for this event. It was started at 09.00 WIB, begin with speech from Diana Setiyawati, M.HSc.Psy., Ph.D. as a chief of CPMH, continued by Prof. Sylvia Asay. Qualities of Strong Families, Family Life and Education, Healthy Love Relationship and Communication and Conflict Resolution was chosen as topics for this workshop. At the end of each topics, the audience also have the opportunity to ask and discuss about the topics with the speaker.
On the second day, Prof. Sylvia Asay was presenting topics about Family Services, Pre-Marital Preparation, Balancing Work and Family, Family Stress and Crisis, Family Violence and Family Policy. The speaker also give the audiences the opportunity to ask and discuss further about the topics. Furthermore, Prof. Sylvia Asay was giving the perspective about the differences of families and how they resolve their conflict regardless of the cultural differences. Different families in different countries perceived the problems and solve it with different ways, however the key to encounter every family problems, stress and crisis are the same, which is family strength.
Pre-test and post-test also given to the participants in order to have the perspective of how effective the topics delivered to them. At the end of the event, Diana Setiyawati, M.HSc.Psy., Ph.D. was giving closing statement continued with testimonial about the event from several audiences.