Systemic Training, Supervision, Consulting & Education

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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When a Client’s Behavior Becomes the Family’s Organizing Principle

#behaviorincontext When everyone in the family is focused on one child’s behavior, who is paying attention to the pattern that keeps everyone stuck? When a child struggles with significant emotional or behavioral challenges, it is understandable that the family begins organizing its life around those struggles. Mornings may revolve around …

Director Pinky Patel, LMFT & AAMFT’s Gun Violence Prevention Statement

#aamft #pinkypatel #esft #americanassociationofmarraigeandfamilytherapy Gun Violence Prevention: A Systems Perspective — AAMFT’s Call for Connection and Collaboration Gun violence is a complex public health issue that affects individuals, families, and communities across the country. Addressing it requires more than focusing on a single cause or solution. It calls for a …

Why Enactments Matter for Family-Based Challenges

#image_title One of the most important distinctions in systemic family therapy is determining whether the challenge we are treating is primarily individual-based or family-based. When a challenge is individual-based, the primary intervention may focus on helping the individual develop skills, insight, coping strategies, or other resources. But when the challenge …

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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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