Author: Jennifer Benjamin

When a child responds with violence people immediately view it as a moral infraction. Instead, we have to think of the behavior in context. What is this child’s lived experience that this is how they believe they can best approach, solve, address a challenge they are facing. What have they been through that they believe they need to solve the problem on their own?

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.

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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.

Keywords: Philafamily, training center, Philadelphia Training Center, Family systems therapy, systemic training, Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy, Steve Simms PhD, Marian Lindblad-Goldberg, ESFT, Structural Family Therapy, Salvador Minuchin, Structural Family Therapy Training, Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, Continuing Education – Earn Your CE Credits Today, Online courses with clinical demos. Find comprehensive solutions for clinical challenges. Clinical demos, live sessions & detailed commentaries, Intergenerational trauma, Complex developmental trauma, MFT, AAMFT, APA, LPC, ACS, ACA, LSW, LSCW, human services, LMFT, social workers, counselors, psychologists, eco-systemic structural family therapy