Facilitating Enactments in Family Treatment

A Live, Interactive Webconference
Wednesday, 2/9/22, via Live Interactive Zoom
Thursday, 2/10/22, via Live Interactive Zoom
Friday, 2/11/22, via Live Interactive Zoom

8:30am-12:30pm

Children and adolescents with severe emotional and behavioral issues (and their families) can become entrenched in negative interactional patterns that perpetuate and exacerbate high-risk behavior. ESFT treatment, using enactments, disrupts and shifts these negative interactional patterns to more functional ones. This training builds upon the Fall workshop, Shifting Negative Patterns Through Facilitated Enactments, which introduced enactments and how to use them in family assessment. This workshop describes three types of change–inducing enactments. Videotaped sessions demonstrate how to use different enactments in family treatment. An emphasis is placed on having a systemic case conceptualization guiding family sessions. A systemic case conceptualization enables family therapists to recognize key negative patterns when they occur and use enactments to create more functional relationships. Four phases of enactment are explained: setting the stage, giving the directive, keeping the conversation on track, and helping the family process and make meaning of the enactment.

Objectives

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

Describe enactments and how systems theory informs this technique
Identify three types of change-inducing enactments
Explain the four phases of an enactment

Agenda
8:30am-12:30pm: Objectives 1-3

This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health professionals working within North Carolina’s 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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Encouraging Therapists to take a Facilitative Role in Family Therapy Sessions

A Live, Interactive Webconference
Wednesday, 11/3/21, via Live Interactive Zoom Webconference
Thursday, 11/4/21, via Live Interactive Zoom Webconference
Friday, 11/5/21, via Live Interactive Zoom Webconference
1:00pm-4:00pm

Objectives:

Identify common barriers supervisors face in getting therapists to take a facilitative role in sessions.
Identify strategies for addressing these barriers and helping therapists to take a facilitative role in sessions

Agenda
1:00pm-4:00pm: Objectives 1-2

This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health supervisors working within North Carolina’s 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 Negative Family Patterns Through Facilitated Enactments

A Live, Interactive Webconference
Wednesday, 11/3/21, via Live Interactive Zoom
Thursday, 11/4/21, via Live Interactive Zoom
Friday, 11/5/21, via Live Interactive Zoom

8:30am-12:30pm

Therapists working in intensive, in-home, family-based services see many families who are stuck in negative, self-defeating interactional patterns that create a toxic relational environment for their children and themselves. These negative patterns result in caregivers struggling to find empathy and compassion for their children and struggling to maintain a leadership role in the family. Therapists relying strictly on methods directed at changing cognitions or behavior often fail with multi-stressed families. This workshop describes how to use a method that is the cornerstone of EcoSystemic approaches to family therapy – enactments. This approach involves therapists assuming a facilitative role, seizing on opportunities in sessions to help family members experience themselves in more functional interactions with one another.

Objectives

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

Describe the role of supportive counseling, psychoeducation, coaching, and enactment in family therapy
Describe the nature of an enactment and the reasons this approach is effective in shifting negative family patterns
Recognize when to use an enactment in sessions and how to set it up to be effective

Agenda
8:30am-12:30pm: Objectives 1-3

Building Positive, Supportive Supervisory Relationships
& Functional Family-Based Teams

A Live, Interactive Webconference
Friday, December 13, 2024, All Sites via Live Interactive Zoom
8:30am-10:30am

The ESFT supervisor has five major responsibilities: ensuring treatment fidelity and effectiveness, building clinical competency for therapists, establishing positive, supportive supervisory relationships and functional teams. The role can be overwhelming and may be difficult to manage all of the responsibilities while meet the expectations of various stakeholders. This course focuses on building supervisory relationships that promote hope and build competency as well as developing functional two-person teams. Participants will have opportunity to discuss current supervisory dilemmas.

Objectives:

Identify three tasks to build competence, hopefulness and positive morale
Describe ways to use weekly larger group supervision to create engagement and foster a supportive team culture
Name supervisory techniques to be used in each stage of team develop

Agenda
8:30am-12:30pm: Objectives 1-3

This is a beginning 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. The supervision forums count toward required annual supervision training hours in Family Based Mental Health Services. However, CE credit is not available.

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Attuning to Emotional Processes 2023-2024

8:30am to 1:00pm

During interaction with one another and with the therapists, family members often experience frequent fluctuations in their comfort level. There is often significant anxiety. To be most effective, it is critical that therapists attune to and track these fluctuations in family member emotional states. When family members feel therapists are in sync with them, the alliance becomes stronger, and they become more open to trying to connect and relate differently in sessions. When therapists notice family member emotional states, they are better able to foster positive interactions between family members and reduce blame and judgment. The main goal of these workshops is to help therapists understand the concepts of anxiety, negative emotional states, and emotional regulation, and how they show themselves in family relationships. In cases presented for case consultation, Dr. Pollack draws on her training in Emotionally Focused therapy and attachment theory to help therapists look beneath family member behavioral presentations, identify underlying emotional states, and help family members to practice connecting more authentically. Therapists will be asked to reflect on their own emotions and reactions toward family members. Guidance is provided on how this personal awareness can be used to move the therapy forward.

Training Topics for 2023-2024
Incorporating DBT Skills when Working with Emotion Dysregulation
Friday, October 20, 2024
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Friday, February 2, 2024

Recognizing and Managing Therapist Proclivities for Induction
Friday, January 19, 2024
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Applications of Trauma-Informed Care
Friday, February 16, 2024
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Thursday, May 9, 2024

As a result of participating in these clinicals, therapists will be able to:

Formulate a systemic, contextual explanation of the problems and use it to guide sessions.
Expand the family’s experience of the possible by setting up and facilitating pattern-transforming enactments.
Attune to family members for fluctuations in anxiety levels during family interactions that signal a need for more support.
Attune to fluctuations in one’s own emotions in sessions and how this shapes interactions with family members
Identify emotion-based strategies for establishing an empathic connection between caregivers and their children

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

Agenda
8:30am-11:00am: Objectives 1-3
11:00am-11:15am: Break
11:15am-1:00pm: Objectives 4-5

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.

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