Thursday, 10/7/21, Venango County Human Services via Live Interactive Zoom
8:30am-12:30pm
Therapists working in the community 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. Caregivers often also struggle with co-parenting with their partners. 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 to 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
This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health professionals. 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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