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ECOSYSTEMIC STRUCTURAL FAMILY THERAPY

Elevate your career with systemic family therapy training at PCFTTC. Grounded in Dr. Salvador Minuchin’s legacy, our programs prepare you to apply a strength-based, relational, context-sensitive and trauma-informed approach across the continuum of care. Join us and become part of a transformative professional alliance!

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Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT)

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What is ESFT ?

ESFT is an empirically supported clinical treatment model for families, clinical supervision, and training developed by Marion Lindblad-Goldberg.

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The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center promotes effective, strength-based, systemic behavioral health services through training, supervision, consulting, and competency development. The Center embraces innovation, ethical practice, and the use of data to inform training and competency development programs. Our mission is to collaborate with systemic behavioral health clinicians and organizations to build on and support the healthy development and relational functioning of children and families with an appreciation of socio-political contexts and its impact on children and families.

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“Reaching Inward: A Way of Training in Human Systems Thinking,” Marion Lindblad-Goldberg

In her 1985 article in PsycCRITIQUES, “Reaching Inward: A Way of Training in Human Systems Thinking,” Marion Lindblad-Goldberg presented a method for training people to think systemically about human behavior. The core of her work relates to family therapy and ecosystemic structural family therapy (ESFT), a model that considers how …

How would Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT) would use family assessment tools to understand a family when tantrums (or any dysregulated behavior) are present?

#image_title Tantrums signal the distress: I’m overwhelmed. I’m trying to tell you about a need I have. I’m possibly hungry, tired, overwhelmed, lonely, or angry and I don’t know how to handle that yet. I need to learn a new way to ask you for this need when I am …

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#ecomap #esft #wickedcool YOU MUST BE SUBSCRIBED TO THE BLOG FOR YOUR ENTRY TO COUNT Enter the family assessment tool competition to win free access to one HOMESTUDY CE PROGRAM from the PCFTTC store (APA or ACE category). Using the movies Wicket Part 1 and Part 2 (or the Broadway …

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The Marion Lindblad-Goldberg Award

This award has been established by the Philadelphia Child and Family Training Center in honor of Dr. Marion Lindblad-Goldberg whose personal and professional mission was to make the world a better, brighter, and more connected place one family at a time. She believed wholeheartedly in each of us – in our ability, through systemic and relational interventions, to heal disengagement and cultivate belonging.

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