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Upcoming Workshops & Groups for Clients
- Feb 25th - Baby Proofing Your Relationship
- March 1st - Hold Me Tight: A Group For Couples
- March 8th - Power, Authority & Grace: Helping Parents and Teenagers with Oppositional Children and Teenagers
- April 6th - From Marijuana to Mushrooms: A Workshop for Parents on Teen Drug Use
- April 19th - Parenting Your Out of Control Teen
- April 29th - Overcoming Test Anxiety for Academic Success
- May 17th - Adolescence 101:Preparing Parents for the Teenage Years
Training
with
James Keim, LCSW and W. Keith Sutton, Psy.D.
There has been significant research to show that family therapy is an effective treatment for working with children and adolescents. Many therapists don't provide family therapy because they feel undertrained or intimidated by working with families. One difficulty therapists find is that there are multiple theories of family therapy making it difficult to integrate the approaches. Evolving Structural-Strategic Family Therapy provides a four step treatment approach that is a clear roadmap for working with families. ESSFT utilizes theories and techniques from Structural Family Therapy, Strategic Family Therapy, Behavioral Family Therapy, Attachment Based Family Therapy, Neuroscience, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.
James Keim, LCSW is a clinical social worker and
director of the Bay Area Oppositional and Conduct Disorder Clinic. He served as the Director of Training for Jay Haley and Cloe Madanes at the Family Therapy Institute of Washington, DC. He is co-author with Cloe Madanes and Dinah Smelser of the book, The Violence of Men, and he has contributed chapters to eight other psychotherapy books. He directed the conference series, Oppositional Youth, in the 1990's that was hosted at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and today serves on the Adolescent Therapeutics advisory board organized under the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. His presentation on Oppositional Defiant Disorder at the National Conference of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and received a "Best of 1996" rating for his presentation.
Workshop - September 18th - 10 to 5pm - 6 CE
$150 ($75 for students) and $15 for CE
This
six hour workshop is geared both towards clinicians new to Family Therapy as well as those experienced with Family Therapy. We will review the basic concepts of
family therapy, the theoretical underpinnings to our approach that
incorporates structural family therapy, strategic family therapy,
behavioral family therapy, cognitive behavioral family therapy, and
attachment based family therapy. We will then teach practical skills
for working with families and providing a road map to effective
treatment. There will be opportunities for role play and learning
creative, practical skills for helping families in order to have tools
to use with clients.
Live "One Way Mirror" Training - 10 Sessions - Fridays - 4 to 6pm - 20 CE
9/23, 9/30, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 12/2, 12/9
$50 per session and $35 for CE
Participants
who have taken the six hour Family Therapy workshop will be invited to attend the
10 session live "one way mirror" training where one therapist from the
training will volunteer to see the client, while Jim Keim and Keith Sutton call into
the session, giving suggestions while the group watches the session via
video. The first 30 minutes of the training will be spent discussing
the case, the session that day, and addressing the theory and
techniques. The client will then work with the therapist for 50 minutes
while the team gives suggestions. The group will discuss the session
for the last 30 minutes to discuss what worked, what didn't, and why.
We will be able to go beyond just theory and technique and see how to
apply it in reality. Two out of the ten sessions will be spent
reviewing video of the session and practicing the techniques to deepen
the learning in Family Therapy.
IAP
can not guarantee that we will have a client or that the client will
come for all 10 sessions. If this does happen, then we will use the
time as a consultation group, may have people in the training bringing
in their clients for a single session, or watch videos of sessions. IAP
will make every effort to have a client coming in for the therapy and
we have been able to have a client each time, so the likelihood of not
having a client is very low. Also, most attendees can not attend all 10
sessions, which is common. The amount of 10 sessions is the same as
taking a class, so unfortunately, we do not refund if the person can not
make a session. All proceeds from the training and client payments go
to hiring trainers, equipment, and rent for the trainings.
ESSFT Consultation Group - Sessions - Fridays - 12 to 1:30pm - 15 CE
9/30, 10/21, 11/4, 11/18, 12/9
$50 Per Session
Click Here to Register
Whether you're taking the workshop, the live "one way mirror training" or are just interested in learning more about Family Therapy, W. Keith Sutton, Psy.D. will be providing consultation to a small group of therapists for 5 weeks. In the consultation, each person will get to present cases, watch videos of each others' cases, and role play skills.
For more information about the Family Therapy Workshop and Live "One Way Mirror" Training, please call (415) 881-7324 or email info@sfiap.com
CEs are provided by The Spiritual Competency Resource Center who is co-sponsoring this program and is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SCRC maintains responsibility for the program and content. SCRC is a California Board of Registered Nursing Provider (BRN) and a Board of Behavioral Sciences Provider (BBS). For questions about ce contact David Lukoff, PhD at (707) 763-3576.
