PCFTTC

Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center

Jennifer Benjamin

Inspire hope using the strengths and resources families already have.

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Inspiring hope isn’t about the professional making statements about “what a good parent” someone is. Inspiring hope is about helping people access their abilities they already have. This will give an undeniable experience to the caregiver that they are capable competent and caring, and they can help their child.

Check out other trainings offered by PCFTTC by visiting our Continuing Education Store.

Experience our rich tradition of innovative systemic family therapy training, education, supervision, & consultation, as established by Salvador Minuchin at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. Learn from expert faculty how to use a strength-based relational, contextual, developmental, & trauma informed approach to systemically treat intergenerational & complex developmental trauma.

The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, Inc. became a corporation in July, 1999, as an outgrowth of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic founded by Salvador Minuchin, M.D. in 1975 for systemic family therapy and training. The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center offers Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT) training, education, consultation, and research in family and couples therapy, and developmentally based approaches to child, adolescent and adult behavioral health issues. The Center has trained thousands of mental health and other human service professionals in the practice of family therapy, examining the social ecology of the home, school, and community environments.

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Commitment to growth and development creates quality care for families- Tara Byers

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Dr. Tara Byers invites us to consider what it means to be a competent, helping professional and engage in our own professional growth and development. While formal education is crucial, the true growth and development happen in those moments where we face challenges and push through our uncertainties in order to provide quality care for families. Dr. Byers emphasizes the importance of investing in ourselves personally and surrounding ourselves with people who can help us foster our professional stance.

Two questions to consider:

1.What are you doing to invest in yourself, personally to maintain that ability to be regulated and open in the face of difficult challenges and still development moments for you.

2.Who are you surrounding yourself with who can help you to foster that stance in yourself?

Check out other trainings offered by PCFTTC by visiting our Continuing Education Store.

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Experience our rich tradition of innovative systemic family therapy training, education, supervision, & consultation, as established by Salvador Minuchin at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. Learn from expert faculty how to use a strength-based relational, contextual, developmental, & trauma informed approach to systemically treat intergenerational & complex developmental trauma.

The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, Inc. became a corporation in July, 1999, as an outgrowth of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic founded by Salvador Minuchin, M.D. in 1975 for systemic family therapy and training. The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center offers Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT) training, education, consultation, and research in family and couples therapy, and developmentally based approaches to child, adolescent and adult behavioral health issues. The Center has trained thousands of mental health and other human service professionals in the practice of family therapy, examining the social ecology of the home, school, and community environments.

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Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy in 2 minutes!

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The focus is on the importance of understanding the ecosystem and variables that impact a symptomatic person. The training is on ecosystemic structural family therapy, which focuses on restructuring the family system and working with caregivers to promote growth. The therapist needs to work collaboratively, meaningfully, and take into account the unique culture of the family. The therapist also needs to understand the concepts of culture, power, and privilege when working systemically with a family. The family’s culture includes their rules, beliefs, rituals, and traditions of how they relate to each other.

The therapist’s cultural beliefs and experiences can shape their interpretation of the family they work with. Power dynamics and privilege play a significant role in the therapeutic relationship, as the therapist’s level of power may differ from that of the family. Privilege is an unearned advantage that benefits people of dominant groups, and therapists must be aware of their own privilege and lived experiences to be context-sensitive and trauma-informed. The training will explore how social institutions impact privilege and how therapists can work to hold other members of the dominant group accountable.

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Marion Lindblad-Goldberg Award: Submit Nominations

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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.

Each year the award is given to a trainer, clinician, and program director/supervisor, from the ESFT-FBMHS Training Program, who exemplifies the following:

  • Maintains a systemic perspective. Nominees have an appreciation for the isomorphic process in training, treatment, supervision, and across systems. Nominees maintain awareness of the “whole” while working the “parts.”
  • Maintains balance between professional boundaries and collaborative relationships to foster positive change and competence. Nominees take a strength-based approach, balancing their professional/expert knowledge while collaboratively engaging the ecosystem to draw on existing strengths and create experiences of trust, building individual competence for all members of the system.   
  • Engages in social ecology. Nominees have a deep appreciation for intersectionality and the lived experiences of others.  As such, they express an unwavering commitment to understanding how their own social ecology and zone of proximal development informs their professional work.  Nominees consistently utilize their support system to engage in deliberate practice to grow their professional skills.
  • Makes the most of intensity and crises. Nominees have an ability to see struggle and chaos as an opportunity for growth and development. They demonstrate facilitative leadership by keeping second order change in the forefront of their approach to individual or system distress.  They nurture others’ capacity to make meaning, promote new relational patterns and shift belief systems towards lasting change.
  • Assesses with complexity while acting with simplicity. Nominees have a belief that training, treatment and supervision are relational, contextual, developmental and trauma informed.  They demonstrate these concepts actively in their work through systemic assessment and conceptualization.  While their understanding of people and situations are complex, those around them experience the person’s actions and communication as accessible and validating.  

Nomination are due by March 1st, 2024.

Nominees and Recipients will be previewed across social platforms.

Winners announced on June 3rd, 2024.

Recipients of the award will celebrate with PCFTTC Faculty & receive access to homestudies.

Nominee Submission

Systemic Family Therapists, be curious first and the expert second….

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The key to helping caregivers is to be curious first and an expert second. As therapists, intentional discipline is necessary when approaching caregivers to access their strengths and help them manage challenges. Instead of offering advice, ask open-ended “how” and “what” questions. Encourage caregivers to use their strengths from other areas of life and practice with the child.

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You can’t thrive in a closed system…Tara Byers

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TARA SAYS: The role of training and supervision in professional growth is crucial. Just as it’s important for family systems to be open to let helpers in, it’s essential for clinicians to have support from colleagues and supervisors to thrive and grow. Engaging in open systems allows for new perspectives, creativity, and competence, which is foundational for professional wellness. Self-care is not just about what we do for ourselves, but also about the community we create around us. Reflecting on the openness of the system around us is important.

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