A Live, Interactive Webconference
Cost: This training is free but open only to Family Based Mental Health therapists working in agencies contracted with CFBT
Friday, March 21, 2025 via Live Interactive Zoom
8:30am-12:30pm
This workshop counts toward required annual training hours in Family Based Mental Health Services but is not currently available for CE credit.
This training is designed to equip family therapists with the skills and knowledge necessary to navigate the common traps that arise when integrating trauma-informed care within Eco-Systemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT). By balancing trauma awareness with systemic interventions, participants will learn to avoid the over-individualization of trauma responses and maintain a focus on relational dynamics. Through a blend of lecture, case study analysis, and interactive discussion, therapists will leave with practical tools to foster family healing, strengthen relational bonds, and avoid therapeutic immobilization. This training emphasizes action-oriented, strengths-based interventions that leverage family dynamics as a powerful resource for trauma recovery.
Objectives
As a result of attending this training, participants will be able to:
- Describe three principles of systemic work and trauma work that can conflict.
- Describe three common traps that emerge when integrating trauma-informed care (TIC) within Eco-Systemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT).
- Identify three strategies for maintaining a balanced approach that upholds both systemic integrity and trauma-informed principles, avoiding therapeutic immobilization.
This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health professionals working within in-home behavioral health programs. 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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A Live, Interactive Webconference
Friday, June 6, 2025, North Carolina via Live Interactive Zoom
8:30am-10:30am
This workshop describes the “change enactment,” an experiential method grounded in systems theory, where therapists create opportunities for families to shift their negative patterns to more functional ones. In ESFT, change enactments are a core technique for creating change. This workshop introduces the Change Enactment Version of the Family Therapy Enactment Scale (FTES-rev). A review of videotaped family sessions is used to provide participants the opportunity to recognize and learn the components of an effective change enactment.
Objectives:
As a result of attending this training, participants will be able to:
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- Describe the central role of enactments in ESFT treatment
- Explain how to use the FTES-rev Change Enactment Scale to recognize the essential components of an effective change enactment and promote therapist skill development in using this technique
Agenda
8:30am-10:30am: Objectives 1-2
This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health supervisors working within an Intensive In-Home 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A Live, Interactive Webconference
Friday, February 14, 2025, North Carolina via Live Interactive Zoom
8:30am-10:30am
This workshop describes the “assessment enactment,” an experiential method grounded in systems theory, that brings interactional problems into the session for direct observation and discussion. In ESFT, assessment enactments are critical for identifying the core negative interactional pattern (NIP) and shifting families from a behavioral view of problems to a relational one. This workshop introduces the Assessment Version of the Family Therapy Enactment Scale (FTES-rev). A review of videotaped family sessions is used to provide participants the opportunity to recognize and learn the components of an effective assessment enactment.
Objectives:
As a result of attending this training, participants will be able to:
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- Describe the central role of enactments in ESFT family assessment
- Explain how to use the FTES-rev Assessment Enactment Scale to recognize the essential components of an effective assessment enactment and promote therapist skill development in using this method.
Agenda
8:30am-10:30am: Objectives 1-2
This is an intermeidate level course. The target audience is behavioral health supervisors working within an Intensive In-Home 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A Live, Interactive Webconference
Friday, November 1, 2024, North Carolina via Live Interactive Zoom
8:30am-10:30am
New intensive in-home staff as well as those who have held the job for many years using more traditional approaches often have very little experience or training with systemic, relational treatment, which can be a challenge for supervisors and Trainor Mentors. And it interferes with the implementation of ESFT with fidelity. This training focuses on strategies supervisors and Trainor Mentors can use to stimulate staff’s curiosity and openness to learning ESFT and working from a systemic, relational perspective.
Objectives:
- Describe the most common reasons staff may resist shifting their approach
- Identify a strengths-based relational approach to supporting staff buy-in to ESFT
Agenda
8:30am-10:30am: Objectives 1-2
This is an intermeidate level course. The target audience is behavioral health supervisors working within an Intensive In-Home 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A Live, Interactive Webconference
Cost: This training is free but open only to Family Based Mental Health therapists working in agencies contracted with CFBT
Friday, November 22, 2024 via Live Interactive Zoom
8:25am-12:35pm
This workshop is intended to advance the participants suicide assessment and safety planning skills. Participants will be introduced to Joiner’s Interpersonal Theory of Suicidality, demonstrate strengths-based techniques to enhance their assessments, and analyze current safety plans looking for strengths and opportunities to enhance the plan. Participants will have opportunities to share strategies with each other through small and large group discussions.
Objectives
As a result of attending this training, participants will be able to:
- Summarize Joiner’s Interpersonal Theory of Suicide
- Demonstrate 2 Strengths Based Assessment Techniques
- Analyze a current safety plan for strengths and opportunities for enhancement.
This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health professionals working within in-home behavioral health programs. 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 Objectives 3
Frequently Asked Questions
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