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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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Our Mission

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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From “What’s Wrong With You?” to “What Happened to You?” — The Shift That Changes Everything

#esft #systemicthinker For generations, helping professionals, educators, and even family members have been trained to ask, “What’s wrong with you?” when someone behaves in ways that seem confusing, defiant, or self-destructive. It’s a question rooted in problem identification, but it often carries an unintended message—that something inside the person is …

Joining Across Power: Lessons from Dr. Kenneth Hardy on Privilege, Subjugation, and Systemic Joining

#joning #kenhardy #systemicthinking #powerandprivilege Dr. Kenneth Hardy’s work offers a profound framework for understanding power, privilege, and oppression within therapeutic relationships and broader social systems. His concepts of the tasks of the privileged and the tasks of the subjugated challenge therapists to examine not only the dynamics within the families …

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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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