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 20, 2026 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.
A fundamental premise of Structural Family Therapy and EcoSystemic Structural Family Therapy is that families in distress posses latent strengths, which could be mobilized to heal their troubled members, but these strengths are currently underutilized due to dysfunctional interactional patterns. The role of the therapist is to help the family bring forward those resources to develop more functional, healing patterns. For this the therapist must support the continuity of the family process, working with the whole rather than fragmenting the treatment, and therefore the family ecosystem, into its individual components. This workshop presents examples of therapists intervening and refraining to intervene in order to preserve and develop the family ecosystem.
Objectives
As a result of attending this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify the family underutilized healing resources
- Work consistently with the whole family to avoid fragmentation of the treatment and the family
- Coach the family in developing healing patterns of interaction
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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