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, June 5, 2025, North Carolina IIH Training Groups via Live Interactive Zoom
8:25am-12:35pm
Therapists working in intensive, in-home, family-based services treat families trapped in negative, self-defeating interactional patterns. This can create a relational environment that is toxic for both children and caregivers. Identifying the details of these family patterns and how they relate to presenting symptoms is critical for therapists designing a relational treatment plan but can be a challenging process. 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. 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:
- Describe the components of the Negative Interactional Pattern (NIP) as conceptualized in ESFT
- Explain the role of clinical observation and enactments in family assessment
- Use the FTES-rev to recognize the essential components of an effective assessment enactment
- Describe how to use the meaning-making phase of assessment enactments to create a relational frame of problems and solutions
This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health professionals working 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
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