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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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Powerful Ways to Build Connection and Beat Loneliness

Connection and Social Healing Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation: U. S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social and Community Letter from the Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, 19th and 21st Surgeon General of the United States: In 2014, I became Surgeon General. That was before …

The Center for Black Male Mentoring, Philadelphia

Mentoring as a Systemic Intervention: The Center for Black Male Mentoring #centerforblackmalementoring #esft #pcfttc What happens when we stop asking, “What is wrong with this young person?” and instead ask, “Who and what surrounds this young person, and how can we strengthen those connections?” This is one of the fundamental …

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 …

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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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