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Graduate Booster: Creating Laser-Focused and Family-Central Enactments

A Live, Interactive Webconference

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

Friday, March 22, 2024, All Training Groups via Live Interactive Zoom
8:25am-12:35pm

In ESFT, enactments are used to re-shape family negative interactional patterns (NIP). They are the ultimate tool for the family-based therapist. To make the experience meaningful and the changes sustainable it is imperative for the family members to be central and active in both the development and the process of the intervention. It is also crucial that the goal of the enactment be laser-focused and clearly defined. In today’s workshop, we will review and discuss the phases of enactment from an advanced ESFT therapists’ perspective. Interaction among participants will be facilitated around observations of a videotaped high-quality enactment from a family therapy session. The videotape is used to demonstrate both laser-focus and the family’s centrality in the enactment. Participants will be encouraged to discuss the strengths and challenges they have faced when conducting enactments and lessons learned from their years as a therapist in FBMHS.   

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:

  1. Describe the phases of enactment (Preparation, Initiation, Facilitation, Meaning-Making
  2. Identify challenges and successes with keeping sessions present focused using enactments
  3. Identify three strategies that can be used to keep the interaction going in the facilitation phase of enactment. 

This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health professionals who have completed the three-year training 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

About the Trainer

Frequently Asked Questions
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Graduate Booster: An Introduction to Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

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 30, 2023, All Training Groups via Live Interactive Zoom
8:25am-12:35pm

While the major focus of treatment in FBMHS is on the parent-child relationship, therapists often encounter significant conflict in the couple which undermines their ability to co-parent.  This workshop introduces an evidence-based approach to working with the couple subsystem, Emotionally Focused Treatment (EFT), developed by Dr. Sue Johnson. Like ESFT, EFT has its roots in Structural Family Therapy and Attachment theory.  In this training, the history and basic tenets of EFT are described, and the role of emotional experience in creating change.  Focus is also given to the EFT version of the negative interactional cycle, stages of treatment, and how enactments are used to facilitate the couple relationship. This workshop uses didactic presentation, case discussion, and review of videotapes to present the material.

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:

  1. Describe the negative cycle in EFT
  2. Describe the stages of EFT treatment
  3. Recognize the role of underlying emotions in couples’ work
  4. Describe how enactments are utilized in EFT

This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health professionals who have completed the three-year training 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 Objectives 3-4

About the Trainer

Frequently Asked Questions
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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:

  1. Identify strategies for structuring supervision such that a focus on supervisee clinical growth and development is maintained.
  2. Recognize ESFT competencies in videotapes using the ESFT Competencies Scale.
  3. 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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ESFT Start-Up: An Introduction to ESFT and FBMHS

Thursday, 9/21/23, Norristown (Montgomery County Intermediate Unit)
Thursday, 9/21/23, Harrisburg (Harrisburg Area Community College)
Thursday, 9/21/23 via Live Zoom interactive webconference
9:00am-1:30pm

This interactive, strength-based training provides an orientation to ESFT, FBMHS, and the training program. It is designed to set the stage for bonding with the job and growing into an effective FBMHS therapist.  The training begins with a description of the population served, describes the history of the program in PA, and reviews recent research demonstrating its effectiveness in keeping youth out of hospitals and RTFs. The second part of the workshop provides an overview of CFBT’s approach to training and normalizes the challenges therapists often face when stretching their skill sets. The third part of this workshop introduces ESFT, discusses videotapes of well-done ESFT treatment sessions, and differentiates relational from behavioral approaches to treatment.  The last 75 minutes of this workshop is experiential.  Everyone gets an opportunity to role play joining with family members and conducting a family session.

Objectives:

  1. Explain why your work in FBMHS is so important.
  2. Identify expected challenges in learning to be a family therapist.
  3. Introduce the ESFT model and how it differs from nonrelational, behavioral approaches.
  4. Practice joining with family members and conducting a family session.

Agenda
9:00am-11:00am: Objectives 1-2
11:00am-11:30am: Break
11:30am-1:30pm: Objectives 3-4

This is a beginner level workshop. The target audience is behavioral health professionals working within an Ecosystemic Family Therapy Model. For those taking part in the Zoom Webconference option, 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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De-escalation & Management of Workplace Conflict

A Live, Interactive Webconference
Wednesday, September 20th, 2023, via Zoom Interactive Webconference
8:25am-12:35pm

A multitude of unique stressors contribute to the high prevalence of burnout in the field of mental health. Interpersonal conflict is one of the most common contributing factors to burnout, but seldom receives attention in burnout prevention initiatives and training. Unaddressed, workplace conflict and burnout can contribute to a multitude of problems related to performance, service delivery, quality of care, workplace culture, and turnover. 

In this four hour training, clinicians will learn about the most common types of workplace conflict and the factors that contribute to them. Participants will learn about different communication and conflict styles, including counterproductive behaviors and defense mechanisms that can escalate workplace conflicts. Information will also be presented about specific conflict resolution, de-escalation, and mediation skills employees and managers can use to address conflict more effectively in the workplace.

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

  1. Identify one or more common causes of workplace conflict 
  2. Identify and explain the 5 different conflict-management styles 
  3. Identify three or more potential consequences of workplace conflict 
  4. Describe the steps involved in effective workplace conflict resolution

Agenda

  • 8:30am-8:45am: Introductions & overview of agenda & course format
  • 8:45-10:30 am: Overview of the research on workplace conflict, types, and effects/consequences
  • 10:30 – 10:45 : Break
  • 10:45-12:00 pm: Effective conflict management & resolution skills for the workplace
  • 12:20-12:30pm: Wrap up, summary, and Q & A

This is an intermediate 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.

About The Trainers

Hailey Shafir is a licensed clinical mental health counselor, a licensed addiction specialist, and a board-approved clinical supervisor for newly licensed mental health and addiction counselors. She has more than a decade of experience providing counseling, developing programs for at-risk youth, people struggling with addictions, and providing training and supervision for clinicians. She is the owner of several businesses including Keep Counsel, Plan-it Therapy, IndyWind, and Therapy Cred. Hailey is also a content writer and medical peer reviewer for Addictions.com, the National Drug Helpline, Choosing Therapy, Rehab Adviser, Searchlight, Social Pro Now, and other sites, and has worked to develop online recovery apps and programs for people struggling with addictions and impulse control disorders.

Maximilian Shafir is a licensed clinical social worker with over a decade of clinical experience working in mental health. He provides individual and family therapy to people struggling with issues like anxiety, PTSD, mood disorders, and co-occurring IDD. Max is also a board approved clinical supervisor for provisionally licensed social workers, and regularly provides mentorship and training to new clinicians. In the past, he has helped to develop and manage a variety of community-based mental health programs aimed at supporting at-risk youth, families, and individuals within North Carolina. Max is also the co-owner of Therapeutics Inc and Therapy Cred, where he provides consultation and training to agencies, universities, and other institutions involved in the provision of mental health services in NC. He is the Executive Chair of the NC Legislative Breakfast on Mental Health and sits on a number of other boards including the Juvenile Crime Prevention Committee.

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