Thursday, February 27, 2025, Core C Group via Live Zoom Workshop
Friday, February 28, 2025, Core group A & B via Live Zoom Workshop
Training Hours: 4.0

The ability to use enactments effectively is a critical therapist skill in implementing ESFT with fidelity. This workshop describes and demonstrates a tool developed by the Consortium by the Advancement of ESFT (CAESFT) that supervisors can use with family therapy videotapes to increase therapists’ competency. Assessment enactment is an experiential method grounded in systems theory, that brings interactional problems into the session for direct observation and discussion. In ESFT, 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. In change enactments therapists create opportunities for families to shift their negative patterns to more functional ones. This workshop describes both the Assessment and the Change versions of the Family Therapy Enactment Scale (FTES-rev). Workshop participants are asked to bring video clips of their teams attempting either assessment or change enactments. The FTES-rev is used to review the enactments and create an opportunity for supervisors to practice using the scales.

Objectives:
As a result of attending this educational activity, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the central role of enactments in ESFT family assessment
2. Explain how to use the FTES-rev Assessment Enactment Scale to recognize the essential components of an effective assessment enactment and promote therapist skill development in using this method.
3. Explain how to use the FTES-rev Assessment Enactment Scale to recognize the essential components of an effective assessment enactment and promote therapist skill development in using this method.
4. Apply the FTES scales in rating enactments in videotaped family sessions.