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, October 10, 2025, FBMHS Training Groups via Live Interactive Zoom
8:25am-12:40pm
Thursday, October 30, 2025, NC IIH ESFT Training Groups via Live Interactive Zoom
8:25am-12:40pm
Children and adolescents with severe emotional and behavioral issues and their families often become entrenched in negative interactional patterns that perpetuate and exacerbate high-risk behavior. Enactment, the cornerstone of the ESFT approach, is a core assessment and treatment method utilized in most current evidence-based child and adolescent focused family therapies (e.g., ABFT, MDFT, BSSFT). Enactments refer to family members being encouraged to interact and problem-solving directly with one another in session, with the therapist in a noncentral, facilitative role.
This workshop introduces the newly released Family Therapy Enactment Scale, (FTES) a tool that can be used to guide therapists and supervisors in the effective use of enactments. There are two versions, one focused on using enactments to assess family patterns, and the other focused on changing family patterns. This is an interactive training where participants will have an opportunity to use the scales to evaluate and discuss videotaped enactments. This workshop shows how assessment enactments can be used to bring negative interactional patterns into the room for direct observation and discussion, helping to shift families from a behavioral view of problems to one that is relational. Focus is also given to how change enactments can be used to disrupt and shift negative interactional patterns to more functional ones.
Objectives
As a result of attending this training, participants will be able to:
- Explain the nature of enactments and when to use them
- Describe the FTES scales and how to use them to become more skilled in using enactments.
- Describe how to use assessment enactments to shift families to a relational frame of problems and solutions
- Describe how to use change enactments to disrupt and shift negative interactional patterns to more functional ones.
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-12:40pm: Focus on Objectives 3-4
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