Working with family systems is often viewed as overwhelming. Come learn a structure that allows it to be simple, effective and fun.

Class Outline

Yourself as a therapist
Transcending self: being
Defining self: job description, doing
Connecting: with self and family
Boundaries: safety, legal and ethical

Separating from the system
Un-attaching to outcome
Working with countertransference

Defining the system: diagnosing, assessing, describing
Different ways of viewing a system
Counseling theories:

Creating a system structure: treatment plans
Conditions
Being present
Moving from content to process
Modes: Mind, Body, Spirit
Mediums: art, drama, dialogue, etc.

Contracting for a system structure
Techniques for contracting
Management of resistance

Assigning a system structure
Techniques for assigning
Techniques for instructing

Enacting a system structure: inviting, intervention
Fiddling
Accelerating, naming, decelerating

Managing a system structure
Working with the reaction
Intensifying
Holding or altering the structure

Processing the system structure
Inside/outside processing

Assigning a system structure

Closing and termination of family therapy

Instructor: Don Hadlock, LMFT

Cost: $50, $25 without CEU's
Refund info

If you are interested in having someone contact you to find out more or to enroll, fill in our interest form, or call 408/358-2218.

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This course meets the qualifications for 6 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Provider# PCE231.