Mindfulness As a Tool for Promoting Emotion Regulation in Community-Based 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, December 7, 2023, All Training Groups via Live Interactive Zoom
8:25am-1:05pm

Community-based therapists regularly see children and caregivers who have difficulty sustaining positive, loving relationships due to significant emotional reactivity. Therapists working with these families may find their ability to maintain a calm emotional presence challenged in the face of emotional intensity and chaos. Yet this is essential to be effective in bringing calm through co-regulation, compassion, and curiosity. This workshop introduces and demonstrates the key concepts of Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI), drawing on the considerable research base of applications to promoting emotion regulation and compassion.

This workshop defines both emotional dysregulation and regulation, describes how to de-escalate emotional intensity using mindful awareness practices, and shows how to use these tools proactively to reduce frequency, intensity, and duration of episodes of dysregulation. Mindfulness is presented as a three-part tool: a) for the therapist to regulate themselves, b) as a working philosophical framework to understand emotional dysregulation, and c) as a practical tool to teach parents and children.

This workshop includes lecture, video-tape review, handouts, and breakout rooms for discussion and for practicing skills. Participants will be provided with a comprehensive list of resources for further study.

Objectives

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

Describe the nature of emotion dysregulation as seen in youth with SED and their multi stressed families.
Explain and demonstrate key concepts of Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI)
Describe the use of MBI as a ‘bottom up’ tool for fostering emotional regulation for therapists and the families with who they are working.
Identify strategies for utilizing MBI to strengthen caregivers’ efforts to deescalate or co-regulate their upset children.

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

About the Trainer

Karin’s extensive experience as a clinical psychologist includes a background in therapy, teaching and clinical supervisory roles. She has received advanced teacher training through the Centre for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts as a Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction instructor and has led groups and training workshops for practicing clinicians and individuals with chronic pain, cancer and other concerns.

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Utilizing ESFT Supervision Tools to Enhance Clinician Development

Thursday, November 9, 2023, Core A & B Group via Live Zoom Workshop
Friday, November 10, 2023, Core C 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.

One of the challenges in both training and supervision is choosing effective methods for developing clinicians’ EcoSystemic case conceptualization. This workshop gives focus to a brief supervision tool, the DOC-F, for reviewing supervisee case write-ups and providing feedback on the essential skills related to ESFT case conceptualization. A brief overview and explanation of each of the items on the DOC-F is provided. Excerpts from case conceptualizations are used as opportunities for supervisors to practice DOC-F ratings and to promote inter-rater reliability. The DOC-F is discussed in the context of avoiding some of the more common errors in supervision.

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

Describe three common mistakes in clinical supervision
Describe the rationale for the DOC-F and how use it to enhance EcoSystemic thinking
Use the DOC-F to practice rating case conceptualizations of supervisees.

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

Using Supervision to Promote ESFT Competencies

Friday, November 3, 2023, North Carolina Training Groups via Live Interactive Zoom Webconference
1:00pm-4:00pm

Too often in supervision, particularly in community-based agencies, urgent administrative clinical management tasks dominate, leaving little time for promoting the growth and development of supervisees as competent therapists. Similarly, supervisors who are interested in developing their personal skills as clinical supervisors may find too little time to review videos and reflect. We discuss these challenges as a group with the goal of identifying strategies for finding a balance between the various demands of supervising. To sharpen ESFT supervisory skills in developing supervisees’ competencies, we use the rubric – Seeing, Thinking, Doing, and Being. Videotapes of Family therapy sessions and supervision sessions are reviewed for practicing using supervisory tools such as the ESFT Clinical Competencies Scale and Recognizing Process in Clinical Supervision Scale

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, participants will be able to:

Identify strategies for structuring supervision such that a focus on supervisee clinical growth and development is maintained.
Recognize ESFT competencies in videotapes using the ESFT Competencies Scale.
Recognize family process in videotapes using the Recognizing Process in Clinical Supervision Scale.

This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health supervisors working within an Ecosystemic Family Therapy Model in the North Carolina Intensive In-Home Program. 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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Shifting Troubled Attachment Patterns 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, November 2, 2023, North Carolina Training Groups via Live Interactive Zoom
Friday, November 3, 2023, North Carolina Training Groups via Live Interactive Zoom
8:25am-12:35pm

Families treated in intensive, in-home Ecosystem Family Treatment are marked by fragile, insecure attachment, particularly in the parent-child relationship. Fragile, insecure, or “troubled” attachments are often at the core of negative interactional patterns, and dramatic symptomatology. To effectively help these families, it is important for therapists to be grounded in an understanding of applied attachment theory, and to be able listen to families interacting with an “attachment ear.” This workshop provides a brief overview of attachment theory and how it informs assessment and treatment in ESFT.

Three common insecure attachment patterns are described and how they show up in enmeshed and disengaged families. Major focus is given to how therapists can use attachment theory to improve their skills in relational reframing, a key component of ESFT, which is considered essential to improving family functioning. Emphasis will be given to pacing and using the language of attachment to shift caregivers from a behavioral view of their children to a relational one. This language taps into yearnings for a sense of felt safety, a sense of being seen and known (attunement), the experience of felt comfort (soothing), and a sense of being valued (expressed delight). Concepts and intervention strategies are demonstrated through videotaped case examples.

Objectives

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

Describe the nature and functions of attachment.
Recognize the attachment subtext in family interactions.
Describe how the language of attachment can be used to cultivate a relational treatment frame.
Describe how to use enactments to strengthen the parent child relationship.

This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health professionals working within North Carolina Intensive In-Home 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

An Introduction to ESFT

A Live, Interactive Webconference
October 11, 2023, via Zoom Interactive Webconference
12:00pm-4:00pm

In this four-hour training, clinicians will learn the basics of EcoSystemic Family Therapy. Attendees will receive an overview of children with SED, their families, and the systems they live within. They will hear a discussion of the ESFT approach to problems and the differences between ESFT and more non-relational approaches.

As a result of participating in this training, attendees will be able to:

Describe children with SED and their families.
Describe the ESFT approach to conceptualizing problems.
Explain the differences between a relational approach, like ESFT, and nonrelational approaches as it relates to focus of change.

Agenda

12:00pm-2:00pm: Focus on Objectives 1-2
2:00pm-2:15pm: Break
2:15pm-4:00pm: Objective 3

This is an introductory level course. The target audience is behavioral health professionals 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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