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Working with Families: Fundamentals of Systemic Family Therapy
This workshop covers the core concepts and techniques of family therapy practice, providing an overview of the influence of the major schools of thought on contemporary practice. The emphasis will be on applying theory as systemic practice, through teaching, demonstration, video, role play, case illustrations, group discussion and small group exercises.
This workshop is accredited by the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) and The Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN).
Core Skills in Family Therapy Practice
This one day workshop will provide participants with a solid introduction in how to conduct an interview using genograms in assessment. It will also cover how to develop a sound case formulation plan and how to apply family focused interventions keeping in mind the complexity of a family’s context, transgenerational history, patterns of interaction and events.
Participants will learn how to explore family patterns of both contributing and maintaining factors influencing the development and maintenance of problem behaviours and relationships. There will be opportunities to practice skills in using genograms in assessment, develop systemic hypotheses and case formulation to guide interventions. There will also be opportunities to review video examples of family assessments and treatment planning as well as opportunity to practice and use various assessment tools throughout the day.
Creative Engagement in Therapy
Engaging family members can be challenging and not all members relate equally well when only counselling techniques are used in therapy. Using visual and interactive tasks adds another way to engage, elicit and communicate in assessment and therapy.
This ½ day workshop will provide an opportunity to consider how to apply creative tasks in assessment and therapy, using visual, auditory and kinaesthetic modalities. The workshop will introduce the participant to various techniques and tools that can easily be used when working across the lifespan. These ideas can be applied in adjunct to your current ways of working and draw on Narrative, Bowen and Structural models of therapy. This workshop will provide an experiential sampling of different therapeutic interventions that you can apply immediately in your clinical practice.