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. Or
to download the flier for the current course, click here.
Two exciting levels of training
are provided.
Family Therapy 1-2-3
The Family Therapy 1- 2- 3 intensive training program 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
utilize 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, morning and afternoon teas, lunch, and handouts.
- A copy of Whiteside’s book Working with Difficult Clients.
- A 3-disc set of Whiteside’s interactive CD-ROM Family Therapy 123.
To register online, please click here.
Can’t make the training? See our new interactive CD-ROM package, Family Therapy
1-2-3 on the CD-ROMs page.
Advanced Training:
This 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:
- 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.
- Participants must submit two videotapes 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 the 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.
- Participants will be asked to fill out a Self Development Map to identify strengths,
obstacles, and pathways related to their practice of family therapy.
Contact solun@xtra.co.nz for further information.
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