Continuing Education Program

Elevate Your Expertise and Impact with Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT) and Competency Development at PCFTTC

In the rapidly evolving field of mental health care, ensuring a consistent, systemic approach across the care continuum is vital. Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT) is an evidence-based model that understands behavior within the intricate web of family and community relationships. Rooted in systemic, trauma-informed, strength-based, and attachment-focused principles, ESFT provides the tools necessary to disrupt negative cycles and foster transformative change in family dynamics.

Empower Your Organization with ESFT Training

Position your organization as a leader in modern mental health care by equipping your team with ESFT’s robust family systems therapy approach. Our comprehensive certification program goes beyond training—it includes full program implementation support, preparing your team to deliver personalized, context-sensitive interventions that meet today’s mental health challenges.

Key Clinician Goals with ESFT:

• Resolve Core Issues: Break negative interaction cycles within families.
• Promote Healthy Development: Foster self-regulation and social-emotional skills in children.
• Strengthen Family Dynamics: Cultivate emotionally connected, growth-promoting environments.
• Enhance Community Support: Coordinate with community systems to support sustained family progress.

Comprehensive ESFT Integration:

• Across Care Levels: From outpatient services to psychiatric residential treatment, ESFT’s versatility enhances care at all levels.
• Single and Multiple Provider Integration: Ensure consistent messaging and treatment approaches across your organization or network, fostering strong commitment to family systems integration.

Why Invest in ESFT Training?

• Ongoing Expert Support: Access continuous guidance from family systems experts.
• Enhanced Clinical Skills: Elevate your team’s therapeutic abilities.
• Supervisory Excellence: Build strong supervisory frameworks within your organization.
• Unified Treatment Language: Establish a consistent approach across all services.

Expand Your Professional Horizons at PCFTTC

At the Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center (PCFTTC), our continuing education and competency development programs are designed to keep you at the forefront of systemic family therapy. Whether you’re a therapist looking to deepen your expertise or a supervisor aiming to enhance leadership skills, our certificate programs are crafted to support your growth at your own pace.

Explore Our Certificate Programs:

• Systemic Thinking Certificate: Grasp the complexities of systemic thinking, social ecology, and culturally informed methods.
• Family System Certificate: Master the application of systemic interventions with precision.
• Systemic Family Therapy Certificate: A comprehensive, year-long program with monthly group supervision.
• Certificates for Supervisors and Trainers: Specialized programs to enhance supervisory and training capabilities.

Why Choose PCFTTC?

• Expert-Led Instruction: Learn from leaders in systemic family therapy.
• Flexible Learning: Online courses designed to fit your schedule.
• Relevant Topics: Stay ahead with courses covering the latest trends and techniques.
• Earn CE Credits: Accredited courses to meet your continuing education requirements.

Start Your Journey Today!

Don’t miss the opportunity to elevate your expertise and make a lasting impact in your field. Visit PCFTTC.com to explore our full range of courses and certifications, and take the next step in your professional growth. Let’s build stronger, more resilient families and communities—together.

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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VIRTUAL CE PROGRAM

Wednesday May 19th, 2021 – 9:00am to 1:00pm EST

From Behavior to Presence:  Non-Violent Resistance Therapy (NVR)

Presenter:  Dr. Peter Jakob & Dan Dulberger

*for full bios see below

About This Course: NVR is a form of systemic family therapy, originally developed to help families respond more effectively to aggressive, violent, harmful, or self-destructive behavior in children. NVR helps clinicians and caregivers recover their diminished sense of agency regarding their young and adult children. This introductory level program will demonstrate how clinicians, can use NVR to help caregivers’ access, increase, and capitalize on their presence, regardless of the child’s level of participation.

Learning Objectives:
1. Differentiate ‘resisting’ from ‘winning’ when facilitating parental presence to change interaction patterns, develop new authority and new autonomy in the family, school, or residential setting.
2. Identify how to generate responsiveness between parent or another caregiver and child.
3. Develop an understanding of how reconciliation is promoted in the facilitation of non-punitive parenting.
4. Develop an understanding of community as a resource for overcoming secrecy and isolation and building a social support network for the family.

Completion Requirements:
Participants must mark attendance, attend entire session, & participate in all activities, to receive CEs and certificate.
Intended Audience:
Mental Health Workers, Human Service Providers, & Supervisors

Instructional Level:
Introductory

CE Credit Hours are available:
3.5 General

Cost:
$100.00 for 3.5 CE credits
*Must attend entire training for CE credits
*Maximum of 200 participants

Refunds/Cancellation:
No refunds are provided 14 days prior to the training.

REGISTRATION LINK:
www.pcfttc.com/trainings
YOU WILL RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK TO THE WEBINAR THE DAY PRIOR

*There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support for the CE program, presentation, or instructor.

*Please note that all CE programs are recorded.

EMAIL administration@pcfttc.com for additional information regarding training contents and questions.

The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, Inc. is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) (ACEP #5206) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.  The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program

Peter Jakob, PhD
Peter Jakob lives and practices in the United Kingdom. He has been working in child- and adolescent mental health and in adult mental health systems as a licensed clinical psychologist and systemic family therapist for over 37 years. Much of this work has been undertaken in support of child protection, involving difficulties relating to child sexual and physical abuse or neglect, parents’ mental health, drug and alcohol misuse problems, domestic violence, and very serious trauma. These areas of interest led Dr. Jakob to develop service models for effective interagency working in child protection and child in need contexts.

In this capacity, he has introduced Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) to the UK. Dr. Jakob has developed an adaptation of the approach to working with serious trauma in families and unmet needs of children with high ACEs, especially for multi-stressed families, adoptive families, and foster- or residential care environments.

Dan Dulberger
Counselling Therapist, and Family & Marital Therapist
Association of NVR Practice – Accredited Practitioner and Supervisor
Founder and Director:
Center for NVR Therapy and Practice (Canada) & Center for Parental Empowerment (Israel)

Mr. Dan Dulberger specializes in NVR-oriented systemic interventions. He is internationally recognized as an expert in the Non-Violent Resistance approach, as well as in NVR interventions with families of socially withdrawn adolescents and post-adolescents who fail to emerge into adulthood. Together with Haim Omer, he developed an NVR-based intervention model for Adult Entrenched Dependence (AED), and is co-author of the book “Non-emerging Adulthood: Helping parents of adult children with entrenched dependence”. Dan is the founder and director of the Center for NVR Therapy and Practice, in Canada, and of the Center for Parental Empowerment in Israel. He teaches in the University of Calgary’s Family Therapy Diploma Program.

Mr. Dulberger holds an M.A. degree in Social Psychology from the Tel-Aviv University, is a graduate of the Israeli Institute for Systemic Studies, Family and Personal Change (Shinui), and was personally trained by Haim Omer in the NVR approach. Mr. Dulberger is certified by the American, Israeli and Canadian Associations for Marital and Family Therapy, is an Israel-registered psychologist, and a member of the Association of Counseling Therapy of Alberta. He is accredited as an NVR Practitioner and Supervisor by the UK Association of NVR Practice.

Complaint Procedure

The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, Inc. is fully committed to the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and the Approved Continue Education Provider for NBCC Ethics. The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, Inc. will comply with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be nondiscriminatory in promotional activities, CE program content and engagement with participants. The monitoring and assessment of compliance with these standards will be the responsibility of the Director in consultation with the Associate Director, and the designated training faculty for the specific program. The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, Inc. will go to great lengths to assure fair treatment for all participants and attempts to anticipate problems that could arise. Sometimes issues could come to the attention of the organization that require action from leadership, staff, and training faculty.

Conflict of Interest

The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, Inc. is committed to the identification and resolution of potential conflicts of interest in the planning, promotion, delivery, and evaluation of CE programs, as outlined in the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct and the Approved Continue Education Provider for NBCC expectations for sponsorship. All instructors participating in any part of the CE program, from inception to delivery, are required by the Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, Inc. to identify, disclose a possible conflict of interest, and recuse themselves. This includes not only the CE program, but also the promotion, advertisement, financial support, and the delivery. A conflict of interest can be defined as an individual’s personal, professional, legal, financial, or other interests could reasonably impair their objectivity, competence, or effectiveness as outlined by the American Psychological Association (2019). The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, Inc. requires all CE programs clearly describe promotional activities, any financial support or relationships, that could be a conflict of interest be disclosed. Please contact Jennifer Benjamin, PhD, continuing education program administrator, to report a conflict of interest, or if you have additional questions, 215-242-0949 or adminstration@pcfttc.com

Registration Policy

Registration is a first come, first served basis.  The best way to make sure you get into the desired program is to sign up early! Registration must be done online. Programs that require payment will be due at the time of registration.

Program Fee Policy

Online payment is available for all PCFTTC programs. To make an online payment you will have to make an account to use the online store. Once an account is made click on the program listed and add to your cart for checkout (use check out to finalize the purchase). Also, fill in the registration form as completely as possible before moving on to the next step. The next step requires your billing address and the kind of payment being made. Once your registration is completed and you have paid the fee, participants will receive a registration/payment confirmation via email. We recommend that you save these emails.

If required, PCFTTC will accept payment by check or money order. To pay by check or money order please contact administration@pcfttc.com for the payment code to be entered during the registration process. Payments must be received 1 week prior to the program delivery to be eligible for attendance.

Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center

Re: Program Registration
P.O. Box 4092 , Philadelphia, PA 19118

When you are using checks or money orders as payment, please make them out to Philadelphia Child & Family Therapy Training Center OR  PCFTTC

Please Note:  If a payment bounces, there will be a $35 fee, and the registrant must pay that amount, in addition to the registration fee for the class.  The registrant will not be permitted to return to any PCFTTC programs until all fees are paid in full. If you have further payment questions, please contact Christina Arthin at administration@pcfttc.com

Refunds Policy

Registrants can obtain a refund for trainings up to 14 days prior to the training by contacting Christina Cahill at adminstration@pcfttc.com . Your money will be issued back to you in the form of a check from the administrative office once your request is verified. For registrants looking to cancel within the 2-week period, please see cancelation policy.

Cancellation Policy

If you cancel within 14 days prior to the registration fee will be applied to another program of your choice.

Weather-related Cancellations Policy

Weather related delays and cancellations will be posted on the PCFTTC Facebook page. The decision will be made at 6:00 am on the specific program date.

Special Needs / Accommodations Policy

PCFTTC training spaces, and the building in which we are housed, are ADA accessible. If you are in need of specific accommodations for your program, please make sure to note that on your registration form under the “accommodations” section. With proper notice reasonable accommodations can be made to assure accessibility programming. For specific questions please email Jennifer Benjamin at adminstration@pcfttc.com.