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June 2025: Change Enactments

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:

    1. Describe the central role of enactments in ESFT treatment
    2. 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
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.

February 2025: Assessment Enactments

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:

    1. Describe the central role of enactments in ESFT family assessment
    2. 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
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.

November 2024: Getting Staff Buy-In to a Relational Treatment Approach

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:

  1. Describe the most common reasons staff may resist shifting their approach     
  2. 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
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.