2-Day Strategic Family Therapy Intensive
Level 1
Friday, April 23rd & Saturday, April 24th, 2010
Presenter:
Eileen Bobrow, M.A. is the director of MRI’s Strategic Family Therapy and Training Center and a Senior Research Fellow of the Mental Research Institute. She has been both a Faculty Member of the Family Therapy Institute of Washington, D.C. and an Associate Professor of the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco.
About this Workshop:
The philosophical origins of Strategic Family Therapy can be traced to its beginnings many years ago, when Don Jackson founded the MRI in 1959.
Goals and Objectives
Participants will gain an understanding of the following:
Theoretical foundations of Strategic Family Therapy.
How to conduct a first session.
Variables on which to focus.
How to decide who should participate in the therapy.
How to manage all the systems that should be addressed.
Family life cycle’s place in Strategic Therapy.
How and when to give directives: indirect and direct.
Paradox – when and when not to use it.
Program Overview
Day One
9:00-12:00
History Systemic & Problem Solving Therapy
Ethics & Responsibility of Strategic Therapy
Stages of the First Interview
Stages of the Therapeutic Process
Video
12:00-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-5:00
Systemic Diagnoses & Variables, Protection, Unit, Sequence of Interactions & Hierarchy
Video
Discussion
Day Two
9:00-12:00
Tasks, Homework, Directives
Video
12:00-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-5:00
Indirect Directives, Reframing, Metaphors, Paradox
Discussion/Role Play/Case Consultation
Video
Discussion
12 Continuing Education Credits
Continuing Education Units, approved for MFT’s, LCSW’s, as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #PCE 14, & by the California Board of Registered Nurses, BRN #2062
Cost: $400.00
