Using Videotape Supervision in the
Clinical Supervision of ESFT

Friday, March 24, 2023, Altoona/Central groups via Live Zoom Workshop
Thursday, April 6, 2023, Susquehanna (formerly WellSpan) group via Live Zoom Workshop
Friday, April 14, 2023, Norristown group via Live Zoom Workshop
Training Hours: 4.0

This series counts toward required annual training hours in Family Based Mental Health Services, but is not currently available for CE credit.

This training explains the reasons clinical supervision is more effective when based on actual observation of treatment, such as reviewing videotapes of therapists’ sessions. Strategies are provided for motivating therapists to take the risk of showing their clinical work, highlighting the importance of being collaborative and strengths based. Supervisors are encouraged to be facilitative, and to use reflective questions, a method that helps supervisees develop their critical thinking skills.

Objectives:
As a result of attending this educational activity, participants will be able to:

Explain how reviewing therapists’ videotapes with them fosters clinical self-awareness
Identify the types of reflective questions that best facilitate therapists skills in attuning to key interactional patterns
Identify strategies for motivating therapists to videotape and show their work in supervision.
Describe the importance of maintaining a collaborative, strength-based stance with supervisees when viewing their videotapes.

This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health supervisors working within Pennsylvania’s Family Based program. This is a live synchronous distance learning activity conducted in real time, allowing for simultaneous participation of participants and instructors from different locations.

Agenda

8:25am-10:30am: Focus on Objectives 1 & 2
10:30am-10:40am: Break
10:40am-12:35pm: Focus on Objective 3 & 4

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Identifying & Treating Families Formed By Adoption

A Live, Interactive Webconference

Friday, 3/3/23, All Training Groups via Live Interactive Zoom
8:25am-1:05pm

Working with families formed by adoption are 2-5 times more likely to utilize mental health services than non- adoptive families. Community based therapists will often see these families at their breaking point. Specialized conceptual and therapeutic skills are presented to enhance the possibility of helping families sustain their desire to provide a safe home for the adopted youth or consider mutual alternatives. Successful therapeutic work with families formed by adoption is supported by community based therapists that maintain a developmental, multisystemic and ecological perspective of the factors impacting family members.

This presentation draws on the research and theoretical sources from adoption research, family therapy, trauma informed care, child welfare, neuroscience, and
attachment theory sources.

The goal of this presentation is to enhance the existing adoption competence in each participating clinician so that they may deliver optimum care to families formed by adoption at this critical time in their life.

The presentation will be presented virtually primarily by lecture, breakout small group discussion, videotape examples, case discussion (if possible).

Objectives

As a result of attending this training, participants will be able to:

Describe two family life cycle tasks unique to families formed by adoption.
Assess how complex developmental trauma affects attachment in adopted youth.
Distinguish interventions targeting traumatic loss which triggers the core issues of rejection, shame/guilt, grief, identity, intimacy and mastery/control.
Name two therapeutic approaches that strengthens hope and resilience in the caregivers in families formed by adoption.

This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health professionals working within Pennsylvania’s Family Based program. This is a live synchronous distance learning activity conducted in real time, allowing for simultaneous participation of participants and instructors from different locations.

Agenda

8:25am-10:30am: Focus on Objectives 1 & 2
10:30am-10:40am: Break
10:40am-1:05pm: Focus on Objectives 3 & 4

Jeffrey M. Friedman, PhD, LCSW, QCSW is the Clinical Director of the Warwick House, an innovative family based residential. He has 40 years of adoption practice in mental health. He is a consultant, clinician and trainer based in Philadelphia, PA.

Graduate Booster: Therapist’s Self-Awareness in Family Treatment

A Live, Interactive Webconference

Cost: This training is free but open only to supervisors and behavioral health professionals working in agencies contracted with CFBT

Thursday, 11/17/22, All-Site Graduate Training via Live Interactive Zoom
8:25am-12:35pm

This workshop is designed to expand therapists’ awareness of themselves in sessions and strengthen their ability to avoid induction into individual family members’ emotional field. Self-awareness is a tool that helps therapists attune to their personalities, strengths, beliefs, thoughts, emotions, and motivation in treatment sessions. It also helps therapists to understand how different family members may perceive them, which is very important to maintaining a balance therapeutic alliance. Family therapy is particularly challenging because there are competing agendas, strong emotions, and histories of trauma and pain, all of which can activate sensitive issues within the therapist’s personal life. This workshop is informed by Harry Aponte’s ideas about “signature themes” and the person-of-the therapist, as well as Peter Rober’s ideas about fast and slow thinking. The workshop also includes the main tenets of Internal Family Systems and how this theory can be used to deepen one’s self-reflection in their work with clients. Didactics, case examples, videotape analysis, self-reflective exercises, and small group discussion are used to deepen the conversation about therapist’s self-awareness in day-to-day practice.

Objectives

As a result of participating in this workshop, therapists will be able to:

Describe the concepts of signature themes and person-of-the therapist and why they are important
Explain the link between therapist personal signature themes, induction, and isomorphism in family treatment.
Describe the concepts of slow thinking and fast thinking and how they apply to decision-making in family treatment
Describe the premise of Internal Family Systems and how it relates to the therapist’s own self reflection in their work.

Agenda

8:25am-10:30am: Focus on Objectives 1 & 2
10:30am-10:40am: Break
10:40am-12:35pm: Focus on Objectives 3 & 4

Treating Youth Living
In Under-Organized Families

Thursday, February 9, 2023, North Carolina Training Groups via Live Interactive Zoom Webconference
Friday, February 10, 2023, North Carolina Training Groups via Live Interactive Zoom Webconference
8:25am-12:35pm

Life in the home for children living in under-organized families is marked by inconsistency and chaos. Caregivers are often distracted, disengaged, and absent from the home. Relationships between caregivers and between caregivers and their children can be fragile. Children are at high risk for emotional neglect, and sometimes abuse, in the home. The nature of emotional neglect and emotional detachment are described in detail, as well as it’s emotional and behavioral impacts on youth. This workshop begins with a description of the characteristics of under-organized families. In addition to conjoint family sessions, EcoSystemic Structural Family Therapists (ESFT) work separately but simultaneously with youth and their caregivers in the service of fostering more functional family relationships. In this workshop, the focus is on strengthening therapists’ effectiveness when working with the individual youth. Videotape clips from films and sessions are used to highlight both the internal experience of emotionally neglected youth and how to best support them in engaging in an emotionally focused therapeutic process.

This is a live synchronous distance learning activity conducted in real time, allowing for simultaneous participation of participants and instructors from different locations.

Objectives:

As a result of attending this continuing education activity, participants will be able to:

Recognize the characteristics of under-organization in families
Describe the link between family under-organization, emotional neglect, and children’s presenting problems.
Identify the most common survival skills youth develop as a result of living in under-organized families.
Describe strategies for emotionally engaging distrustful, detached youth in treatment.

This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health therapists working within an Ecosystemic Family Therapy Model. This is a live synchronous distance learning activity conducted in real time, allowing for simultaneous participation of participants and instructors from different locations.

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Tailoring Supervision to Support
New IIH Team Leads: Part 2

Friday, February 10, 2023, North Carolina Training Groups via Live Interactive Zoom Webconference
1:00pm-4:00pm

This training continues the focus on the challenge of staff turnover that has been plaguing intensive in-home programs since the pandemic. It remains a challenge to recruit and hire experienced therapists for the team leadership role. When therapists assume the role of Team Lead with little family therapy or supervision experience, their role in intensive, in-home can be overwhelming, creating greater vulnerability for burnout and premature exit from the job. This training reviews strategies that Trainer-Mentors have implemented successfully in their programs to tailor their supervision to the ramped-up needs of new hires. This is an interactive, conversational workshop which is organized around supervisory presentations focused on formal curricula and informal supervision strategies supporting new staff.

This is a live synchronous distance learning activity conducted in real time, allowing for simultaneous participation of participants and instructors from different locations.

Objectives:

As a result of participating in the forums, supervisors will:

Identify curricula for onboarding new Team Leads and how it integrates with CFBT webinars
Identify successful supervisory strategies for supporting new Team Leads

This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health supervisors working within an Ecosystemic Family Therapy Model. This is a live synchronous distance learning activity conducted in real time, allowing for simultaneous participation of participants and instructors from different locations.