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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 services through training, education, supervision, and consultation. The Center embraces innovative and ethical practice, and the use of data to inform training and competency development. Our mission is to collaborate with professionals, clinicians, and organizations to strengthen relational functioning and promote healthy family development for children and adults within the context of their social ecology and family culture, which shapes how families grow, connect, and heal.

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What is First-Order and Second-Order Change?! Why Does it Matter?!

#theESFTbook One of the greatest misconceptions about systemic family therapy is that therapists must choose between changing behavior or changing relationships. In reality, effective systemic therapy requires both first-order (behavioral) and second-order change (relational). The question is not whether we use each type of change, but when, why, and how …

July 2026 Newsletter

#ESFT #PCFTTC #SYstemicthinking Dear Alliance Members, The exciting updates continue this month as we approach the count down to the book release. Meet the Authors- Get to know the talented authors and learn more about the experiences and expertise that inspired the book. Blog Series: Part 3- The latest installment …

Beyond Acceptance: Using Ecomaps to Build Support for LGBTQ+ Youth and Families

One of the foundational assumptions of Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT) is that people do not heal in isolation. Children, adolescents, and adults are embedded within multiple layers of their system – families, schools, communities, faith traditions, peer groups, etc. that shape how they understand and respond to others. When …

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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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