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Pennsylvania’s Family Based Mental Health Services Program (FBMHS) is an intensive, in-home team-delivered service for children and youth ages three to 21 at risk for out-of-home placement. PCFTTC provides the 3-year training certification program offered to bachelor and master level therapist employed by a FBMHS programs in PA and DE. After successfully completing the three year curriculum and passing competency applicants are eligible to take the FBMHS examination administered by Pennsylvania to become certified as a family based therapist (CFBT).
FBMHS provides child, parent, and family therapy, along with parent education, family support services, school-based consultation, case management and service coordination, crisis intervention and stabilization, and 24-hour on-call emergency service. The program uses Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT) to work developmentally, relationally, contextually and trauma informed to strengthen parental leadership, attachment, co-regulation and connection to community. The child-focused goals of treatment include reducing symptoms, preventing hospitalization or out-of-home placement, and improving the child’s ability to handle the demands of home, school, and peers.
Recommended Textbook Reference
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.
Quotations from Professional Reviews
“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.
