A Live, Interactive Webconference
July 28th, 2021, Catholic Charities, Harrisburg via Live Interactive Zoom
9:00am-4:00pm
Objectives
As a result of completing this training activity, participants will be able to:
- List common intrapersonal and interpersonal challenges of adolescence through a developmental lens
- Describe external forces such as image, academic or sports pressure and their impact on mental health
- Identify strategies for assisting adolescents in navigating difficult peer, romantic, family, and educational challenges
- Discuss visible signs of distress as circular symptomatic cycles
- Incorporate Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy as a treatment model to support adolescents and their families
About the Trainer
Zack Elisio is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Pennsylvania and Delaware. He received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology from West Chester University and his master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from LaSalle University. He is certified in Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT). He is currently finishing up my Ph.D. in Bereavement, Loss, and Grief. His research interests are bereavement in families, childhood loss, couples in distress, conflict and family hopelessness.
Zack has learned that connection with others and with oneself is a powerful tool to heal the devastating blows life can deliver. Symptomatic patterns often result in people becoming lost or stuck in repetitive patterns that contribute to us not living our full-lives. Zack embraces a strength-based, relational framework that supports people in interpersonal as well as individual challenges. He incorporates ESFT/family systems work as well as humanistic approaches to support people in creating the best lives for themselves.
Agenda
9:00am-12:00pm: Objectives 1-3
12:00-1:00pm: Break
1:00-4:00pm: Objectives 4-5
This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health professionals. This is a live synchronous distance learning activity conducted in real time, allowing for simultaneous participation of participants and instructors from different locations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Visit our FBMHS Policies & FAQs on Live, Interactive Webconferences for additional information regarding CFBT live interactive workshops, accommodations for disabilities, reporting problems with the training, instructions for registering for a training, etc.
Wednesday, 6/9/21, 1:00pm-4:00pm, Zoom Web Conference
Thursday, 6/10/21, 1:00pm-4:00pm, Zoom Web Conference
Friday, 6/11/21, 1:00pm-4:00pm, Zoom Web Conference
Treatment outcomes in ESFT directly depend on shifting caregivers to a relational view of their child’s problems. When caregivers adopt a relational view of problems, they are more open to therapists’ efforts to help them respond to their children more effectively. However, relational reframing depends on therapists’ ability to identify the difference between a behavioral mindset and a relational one. Too often, therapists value a relational approach to treatment but operate from a behavioral mindset, often unaware. The supervisor plays a critical role in helping therapists become more aware of how they think about and respond to families when discussing behavioral issues. This workshop begins with a review of the ESFT Logic Model. An explanation is provided for how it can be used to guide supervision and training. In this interactive workshop, supervisors’ videotapes of their supervision sessions with teams are reviewed. Group discussions focus on identifying relational interventions in videotapes and how to shift therapists’ attention to family relationships most effectively.
Objectives:
As a result of attending this educational activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe the ESFT Logic Model
- Identify markers of a relational focus in videotape review of sessions
- Describe strategies for promoting therapists’ development of a relational focus
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021, North Carolina training groups, Zoom Web Conference Training
Thursday, June 10th, 2021, North Carolina training groups, Zoom Web Conference Training
Friday, June 11th 2021, North Carolina training groups, Zoom Web Conference Training
8:30am-12:30pm
Caregiver participation and involvement is an essential component of treatment engagement in intensive, in-home, family-based treatment. Treatment outcomes, however, directly depend on caregivers’ “buying-into” a relational view of their child’s problems. When caregivers adopt a relational view of problems, they are then more open to therapists’ efforts to help them respond more effectively to their children. Getting caregivers to adopt a relational perspective can be challenging for therapists. This is because caregivers of children with severe emotional problems typically enter treatment with an entrenched behavioral perspective on their child’s problems. They regularly misinterpret the child’s negative behavior as manipulative or oppositional. There is little regard for the child’s social or psychological context. This workshop describes relational parenting and identifies common ways therapists unwittingly reinforce the caregivers’ behavioral view of their children’s problems. Strategies are demonstrated for helping caregivers see their children in a relational context and become open to engaging themselves in the change process.
Objectives
As a result of attending this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify the key differences between a behavioral focus and one that is psychological and relational
- Explain the negative impacts of behavioral parenting on the social-emotional functioning of children.
- Identify the common personal and contextual forces that pull therapists into a behavioral focus when working with children and adolescents who have SED
- Identify “process-oriented “strategies that help caregivers attune to the relational context of their children’s behavior and be more open to relational interventions
Frequently Asked Questions
Visit our FBMHS Policies & FAQs for additional information regarding the CFBT online learning center, accommodations for disabilities, reporting problems with the course, instructions for viewing webinars, etc.
Friday, April 9th, 2021 (Philhaven & Central PA Sites)
Friday, April 23rd, 2021 (Norristown Site)
PA FBMHS training supervisors via Zoom Web Conference Training
8:30am-3:30pm
A key mechanism of change in ESFT is ensuring that family members experience themselves as calm, regulated, focused, and emotionally connected in treatment sessions. Given the trauma histories of the children and families treated in FBMHS, where danger and threat are all too common, this can be challenging for therapists. Supervision can be an important context for therapists to learn the necessary skills of creating emotional safety in their sessions. This workshop introduces concepts from polyvagal theory, such as neuroception and co-regulation, and demonstrates their application to both treatment and supervision. Supervisors will bring in videotapes of their supervisees’ clinical work and their supervision for review and practice. Strength-based strategies are discussed for helping supervisees learn to more effectively attune to their internal emotional arousal and that of family members.
Objectives:
- Describe the importance of emotional safety in establishing and maintaining an alliance
- Explain the application of the concepts neuroception and co-regulation to therapy and supervision
- Recognize the signs of attunement and mis attunement in videotapes of family treatment sessions
- Identify strength-based strategies for increasing therapists’ self-awareness of emotional arousal and dysregulation
Frequently Asked Questions
Visit our FBMHS Policies & FAQs for additional information regarding the CFBT online learning center, accommodations for disabilities, reporting problems with the course, instructions for viewing webinars, etc.
Thursday, April 29th, 2021 Venango County Via Zoom
8:30am-12:30pm
The effectiveness of both prevention and intervention programs, whether it is Early Head Start or family therapy, depends on parents “buying-into” the idea that their relationship with their child is directly tied to outcome. As a group, parents of children who are most at risk for chronic emotional and behavioral problems reflexively misinterpret their children’s challenging behavior as manipulative, selfish, or oppositional, with little regard for social or psychological context. This workshop identifies common ways that therapists unwittingly reinforce a behavioral view of children’s problems, describes the nature of a relational perspective, and offers strategies that can help parents see their children in relational context.
Objectives
As a result of attending in this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify the key differences between a behavioral focus and one that is psychological and relational
- Explain the negative impacts of transactional parenting on the social-emotional functioning of children.
- Identify the common personal and contextual forces that pull therapists into a behavioral focus when working with children and adolescents who have SED
- Identify “process-oriented“ strategies that help caregivers attune to the relational context of their children’s behavior and buy-into relational interventions
Frequently Asked Questions
Visit our FBMHS Policies & FAQs for additional information regarding the CFBT online learning center, accommodations for disabilities, reporting problems with the course, instructions for viewing webinars, etc.
