Family Therapy Training

 

Rick Whiteside offers a range of training in family therapy.  Courses are offered in specific locations each year, but can be delivered at your site if you have 10 or more participants.  For this year’s schedule, please refer to the calendar page.  Can’t make the training?  See our new interactive CD-ROM package, Family Therapy 1-2-3 on the New Releases page.

 

Two exciting levels of training are provided.

 

Family Therapy 1-2-3

The Family Therapy 1- 2- 3  intensive training programme helps participants learn how to understand presenting and underlying issues, create positive hypotheses, and craft interventions in the context of traditional and modern family therapy perspectives.   Through experiential exercises, lecture, videotape, role plays, and demonstration by the instructor, registrants will develop skills they can immediately extend to their practice.  During the course, participants will learn how to:

 

·        create a systemic, non-blaming view of problems

·        apply the core elements of traditional family therapy models (Structural, Strategic, Bowenian, Humanistic, Milan) using a modern perspective

·        utilise a range of therapeutic interventions and discriminate when to use each appropriately

·        adjust therapeutic stances to match a family’s cooperation patterns

·        conduct a family therapy session

 

Attendees are encouraged to bring their own case examples to the course, and material will be targeted toward the specific needs and interests of the participants.  Course registration fee includes:

 

·         5 days of training, including morning and afternoon teas, lunch, and handouts

·         Whiteside’s book Working with Difficult Clients

·          A copy of Whiteside’s interactive CD-ROM training programme (3 discs) Family Therapy 1-2-3.

 

Advanced Training:

The Advanced training is a distance-learning course available to participants who have completed Family Therapy 1 2 3.  The course will focus on participants own development as a family therapist and their ability to put into practice what they have learned previously.  The training is not intended as supervision.

 

Course Requirements:

  1. Participants will be required to fill out 12 family therapy planning session forms.  The form does not always need to cover the same family.  The instructor will provide feedback on the forms.

 

  1. Participants must submit two video-tapes or DVDs of sessions they have conducted with families in their practice.  The first one is due halfway through the training and the second is to be provided towards the conclusion.  Feedback by the instructor will be given for each video, detailing strengths observed during the session and areas that need to be improved.  Participants will be provided with a format for conducting the sessions.  Each of the videos must be accompanied by a completed family therapy outline form as detailed in the Family Therapy 1-2-3 course.

 

  1. Participants will be asked to fill out two maps (instructions provided with admission to course):

 

    1. A Self Development Map to identify strengths, obstacles, and pathways related to their practice of family therapy.
    2. A Case Map for one of their families with whom they work.

 

For more information about the courses, go to the Calendar Page and click the appropriate links or contact solun@xtra.co.nz

 

Can’t make the training?  See our new interactive CD-ROM package, Family Therapy 1-2-3 on the New Releases page.