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PCFTTC the Premier Trainers in Systemic Thinking for Mental and Behavioral Health Services

August 20, 2024 by Jennifer Benjamin Leave a Comment

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.

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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.

    Creating Competence from Chaos

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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.”
    Behavioral Science

    “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.