THIS IS 12 WEEK ASYNCHRONIZED LEARNING COURSE
This course will take the ESFT practice from theoretical to advanced. The focus will be on understanding the use of intervention in session to create progress on the primary targets of assessment and change, based on the Modified Family Assessment Form (MFAF) score.
| Outcome (MFT Core Competency/AMFTRB Domain) | Assessment |
| Demonstrate an understanding of the historical context, conceptual foundations and stages of the ESFT clinical model (1.1.1/01) | Assessment of Video and Written Application |
| Demonstrate an awareness of socio-cultural influences (1.2.1/01) | Assessment of Video and Written Application |
| Demonstrate the ability to understand and construct a therapeutic system by using specific skills to join with the families and individual family members (1.3.6/01) | Assessment of Video and Written Application |
| Demonstrate the ability to understand and apply both the ESFT family assessment tools and individual assessment of the identified patient (2.3.1/02) | Assessment of Video and Written Application |
| Demonstrate the ability to integrate assessment data, develop systemic hypotheses, and create a reframe for the family that provides hope and motivation for change (2.2.3/02) | Assessment of Video and Written Application |
| Demonstrate the ability to understand and apply content and process interventions to promote co-caregiver alliance, parental executive functioning, caregiver-child attachment, and emotion regulation/distress tolerance skills in individual family members with biologically-based disorders and/or trauma histories (4.2.2 & 4.3.1/03) | Assessment of Video and Written Application |
Required Texts
Gehart, D. (2018).Mastering Competencies In Family Therapy: A Practice Approach To Theories And Clinical Case Documentation. 3rd Edition.Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Lindblad-Goldberg, M., Dore, M. M., & Stern, L. (1998). Creating competence from chaos: A comprehensive guide to home-based services. WW Norton & Co.
