In this webinar, Jorge Calopinto demonstrates the powerful influence one’s perspective can have on treatment direction and outcome. He presents a case consultation involving a single-parent mother involved with the child welfare system, demonstrating through structural diagrams how a small enactment opened the possibility that her seven-year-old daughter would remain with her rather than return to foster care. The case consultation contrasts traditional psychological inside-out thinking perspectives of behavior with the outside-in perspectives of systemic approaches. The approach to the case described in this webinar is based on Structural Family Therapy (SFT), which emphasizes context as the organizer of individual behaviors.
This is an Intermediate-Level course. The target audience is behavioral health professionals who work with children and adolescents.
Course Objectives
As a result of completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain how social context evokes and maintains behavior
- Describe the key differences between inside-out case conceptualizations versus those that are outside-in
This course uses an online distance-learning self-paced format. It includes recorded audio, recorded video-based webinars, and selected readings. There are post-tests to ensure comprehension of the material. Participants can communicate with the instructors via the online moodle interface. Real-time communication with the instructor in our online, self-paced distance learning courses is not possible. However, participants can send an email to the instructor via the online moodle interface within the course and expect to receive a response within 48 hours. All course content, including post-tests, should take approximately one hour to complete.
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