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Name: HOMESTUDY: Really Being Strength Based in Treatment: “Every Family is their Own Best Resource for Change”
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HOMESTUDY- (course access is 14 days) *Please be advised this CE Program was developed from a previously recorded program.

HOMESTUDY: Really Being Strength Based in Treatment: “Every Family is their Own Best Resource for Change”

2.5 APA CE Credit Hours- General

Pinky Patel, LMFT
Jennifer Benjamin, PhD, LPC
Steve Simms, PhD, LMFT

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About This Course:

Being strength-based is widely recognized as best practice in systemic family therapy—but what does that actually look like in practice? This course explores how professionals can meaningfully integrate a family’s lived experiences, cultural values, and existing resources into treatment. By using what a family already has, professionals foster collaboration, build trust, and co-create a shared therapeutic dilemma—one that invites both the professional and the caregiver to work together toward lasting change. Additionally, the social ecology and personal experiences of each professional shape how they interpret and engage with families. Cultivating awareness of one’s own context—as well as the family’s—enhances the ability to understand behaviors systemically and deliver more intentional, impactful interventions. This introductory course will explore, through video-recorded sessions, how professionals use critical life events to support emotion regulation, caregiver leadership, and collaborative treatment planning. The course emphasizes the importance of seeing behavior in context as a relational challenge and invites professionals to strengthen their ability to reframe challenges as opportunities rooted in resilience, meaning, and relational healing.

*There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support for the CE program, presentation, or instructor.

Learning Objectives:

Define the connection between social ecology and the family’s strengths and resources.
Identify the purpose of elevating a caregiver as the leader of the family who is capable, competent and caring.
Differentiate a relational problem that is solvable from the behavioral problem that puts pressure on the child to fix things.

ADA: Contact Jennifer Benjamin for accommodations, training@pcfttc.com

Completion Requirements:

Participants must complete attestation, watch videos (2), pass 2 post tests with a score of 75% or higher within three attempts to access evaluation and certificate. Assignments-none.

Intended Audience:

Psychologists, Mental Health Workers, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Human Service Providers, & Supervisors

Instructional Level:

Introductory

CE Credit Hours are available:

2.5 APA CE Credit Hours- General

CE Credit Type: APA

Cost: $50.00

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*There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support for the CE program, presentation, or instructor.

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Instructor- Jennifer Benjamin, PhD, LPC

Dr. Jennifer Benjamin is a license professional counselor and has her doctorate in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She is a training faculty and clinical fidelity specialist at the training Center. Previously she was an adjunct Professor in the school of Graduate Studies of Counseling at Rosemont College. She has extensive history of training clinicians in assessment of life-threatening behaviors, crisis management, trouble shooting, and life-threatening behavior assessment as a former Clinical Director.

Instructor- Pinky Patel, LMFT

Ms. Pinky Mehta is a licensed marriage and family therapist, and an approved AAMFT supervisor. She is the associate director of the Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, Program Director of the COAMFTE Post Graduate Certificate Program, and a Program Director at Creative Health Services. She has a QPR Gatekeeper Instructor Certification.

Instructor- Steve Simms, PhD, LMFT

Dr. Simms is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist in the state of Pennsylvania. He is the director of the Philadelphia Child & Family Therapy Training Center. He has previously been the director of CHOP’s oncology unity and was a professor at Chestnut College. He has numerous publications.