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Additional Supervision Groups: Systemic Supervision

February 12, 2024 by Jennifer Benjamin Leave a Comment

We are excited to announce that in January 2024 we opened additional supervision groups run by our faculty. These groups will give the experienced professional an opportunity to build a supportive community of colleagues who are dedicated to systems thinking and intervention. Supervision groups such as these reduce professional isolation and foster resiliency. Maintaining a community of care around you is one of the most powerful wellness practices you can engage in! Regardless of the level of care in which you work – our groups provide opportunities to receive case consultation/conceptualization of complex cases, ethical decision-making support, and guidance in providing supervision. We would love to welcome you to our learning community! Those interested should email, administration@pcfttc.com, for additional details.

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Why choose PCFTTC.com for your professional development?

February 12, 2024 by Jennifer Benjamin Leave a Comment

Check out Monifa and her experience with the training center. She is in Dr. Tara Byers’ training cohort. Monifa discusses how working in a team of three (supervisor, therapist, and co therapist) in supervision has helped her to master being able to slow down, listen actively, and reframe her approach to systemic family therapy sessions. She has learned to pay attention to the families’ needs and be intentional in the moment, rather than adhering to a rigid agenda. This change has taken pressure off of her and helped her focus on the quality of her presence in the session. Monifa expresses gratitude for this approach and the positive impact it has had on own professional and personal development.

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Inspire hope using the strengths and resources families already have.

January 25, 2024 by Jennifer Benjamin Leave a Comment

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

January 25, 2024 by Jennifer Benjamin Leave a Comment

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.

Or, look into obtaining Supervision from our Faculty.

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!

January 22, 2024 by Jennifer Benjamin Leave a Comment

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

January 20, 2024 by Jennifer Benjamin Leave a Comment

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

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    Creating Competence From Chaos: A Comprehensive Guide To Home-Based Services (1998) by Marion Lindblad-Goldberg, Martha Dore and Lenora Stern, W.W. Norton, New York.

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    Children with emotional and behavioral disorders are often adrift in our society, lacking adequate mental health care or caught between several child-serving systems, such as child welfare, juvenile justice, and the schools.

    In Pennsylvania, a commitment has been made, on a statewide basis, to serve these children and strengthen their vulnerable families through a home-based approach grounded in ecosystemic thinking and practice. This book tells the story of Pennsylvania’s evolving treatment program, providing a model for other professionals who believe that a family’s needs are best met through individually tailored, family-centered, community-based, culturally competent, and outcome-oriented services.

    This is a complete, comprehensive guide, covering everything from planning and development of home-based services through supervision and training of home-based practitioners and evaluation of treatment outcomes. Particular attention is given to the clinical challenges faced by home-based therapists working with families where children are depressed and perhaps suicidal, oppositional and defiant, out-of-control and aggressive, or hyperactive/impulsive. These families commonly have multiple problems, complex histories, and a negative view of outside “helpers.”

    Delivered in the family’s home and involving parents as partners, the services described here work to improve child and family functioning through family therapy, creation of collaborative links between appropriate community and family resources, and provision of family support funds for concrete services such as transportation, respite care, and emergencies. Home-based treatment serves both children at risk for out-of-home placement due to a diagnosis of severe mental illness or behavioral disorders and children being discharged from inpatient hospitals and psychiatric residential placements.

    The authors, active at every level of program conceptualization and implementation, share their wealth of experience with readers. Their advice and case studies move from the big picture to the small details of where to sit in a family’s home, what to say, and how to think about a problematic situation. Several appendices of forms used for assessment, evaluation, and training add to the book’s practical value. Theoretically sound and fully practical, this guide to home-based services will encourage all professionals serving children to involve their families and communities-and to meet them where they live.


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    “This book provides the blueprint for this groundbreaking care system, with practical guidelines for starting a home-based system on the right foot; maximizing collaboration…with agencies; and, most important, delivering hands-on help to at-risk children and vulnerable families. Therapy chapters run the gamut of skills needed for providing home-based care…Case examples…illustrate systemic intervention used in a variety of family situations.”
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    “This book lives up to its…promise of being a ‘comprehensive guide to home-based services.’ Clearly written with many case examples, it fills a hole in the family therapy literature.”
    Eric McCollum, The Family Therapy Networker

    “This wonderful volume takes a huge step towards specifying competence in a field that has tremendous potential. I highly recommend this pragmatic and insightful text to practitioners and administrators alike.”
    Scott W. Henggeler, Ph.D.

    “This book about home-based services is written from the perspective of three disciplines-policy making, clinical services, and research. Reading this book is like opening one of those fertile Russian nesting dolls… Even when we get to the smallest details about the training of home-based staff and the supervision and organization of treatment, we understand how they are interconnected and fit within the big picture.”
    Salvador Minuchin, MD.

    “This richly illustrated book is an excellent resource. It should be a reference for all professionals who work with children and an essential text for those who provide home-based care.”
    Lee Combrinck-Graham, MD.