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Treatment Methods

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    Facilitating Enactments
    CE Hours: 1.5 - Cost: $27

Recent Faculty Publication



Click below to read a recently published interview on ESFT with Jorge Colapinto one of our senior faculty members.

The Ethics of Change:
In conversation with structural family therapist Jorge Colapinto


Current Online CE Courses

Conceptual Foundations of ESFT

  • An Introduction to Systemic Practice
  • The Four Pillars of Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy
  • The Fundamentals of Eco-Systemic Structural Family Therapy
  • Understanding Attachment in Families

Constructing the Therapeutic System

  • Creating Emotional Safety in Family Sessions
  • The Therapeutic Alliance
  • The Treatment Tasks of Creating a Therapeutic System

Diversity in Treatment

  • An Ecosystemic Approach to Supporting LGBTQ Youth
    and their Families
  • Power, Privilege & Trauma: Implications for Family Treatment

Ethics and In-Home Treatment

  • Applying Ethical Decision-Making in Community-Based Practice

Family Assessment

  • Constructing a Relational Timeline
  • Identifying Family Patterns Using the Relational Genogram
  • Recognizing Family Structure

Family Violence

  • Uncovering Another Family Secret: Child to Caregiver Violence

Relational Treatment Planning

  • Crafting Meaningful Treatment Goals and Action Steps
  • EcoSystemic Case Conceptualization
  • Relational Treatment Planning

Structural Patterns Targeted in Treatment

  • Recognizing & Treating the Authoritarian Family
  • Recognizing and Treating Under-Organization in Families
  • Understanding and Treating Enmeshment in Families

Stabilizing Children and their Families

  • Preventing Teen Suicide

Children & Families with Complex Trauma

  • An Eco-Systemic Approach to Trauma-Impacted Families
  • Children with Serious Emotional Disturbance And their Families
  • Impacts of Trauma on Children and Their Caregivers
  • Understanding & Treating Families
    with Complex Developmental Trauma

Treatment Methods

  • Facilitating Enactments

Clinical Supervision Series

  • Supervising Two-Person Teams
  • Tailoring Supervision to the Individual Therapist
  • The Foundations of Good Clinical Supervision
  • The Working Context of Family Based Supervision

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