E-Learning Course Enrollment

This online module aims to provide participants with a thorough understanding of how to construct and use genograms in assessment and intervention. Genograms are a multigenerational assessment tool for understanding family functioning and family processes.

The module consists of 5 self-paced sections and includes video demonstration, practical examples, reflective tasks, readings and a short quiz. 

The course is suitable for health and welfare professionals who currently or intend to work with families. 10 CPD hours

This online module aims to provide participants with the knowledge required to conduct an initial family therapy interview, a thorough understanding of how to develop a systemic case formulation and when to work with individuals versus whole families. It considers child, adolescent and adult mental health practice.

This module consists of 5 self-paced sections and includes video demonstration, practical examples, reflective tasks, readings and a short quiz. 

The course is suitable for health and welfare professional who currently or intend to work with families.  10-CPD hours

This online module is divided into two topics. Topic 1 describes the core concepts of Structural Family Therapy (SFT).  The course overs the underlying assumptions of SFT, how to shift unhelpful and rigid transactional patterns and boundaries. Core concepts such as power and hierarchy, sequences, enactments and working with systems and subsystems is reviewed including video examples of applying in practice. 

Topic 2 covers the core concepts of Brief Therapy and the Solution Focused approach. Participants will learn use the questioning techniques of looking for previous solutions/exceptions, present and future focused questions, scaling questions, using compliments and the ‘miracle question’. 10- CPD hours

This online module provides participants with an understanding of the key ideas and practice of the Milan systemic model, the initial foundational framework and traces the development of the new ideas today.  The core ideas of hypothesizing and circular questioning including the influence of social constructionist ideas as well as psychoanalytic ideas for working in the therapeutic relationship. 10 – CPD hours

This online module covers two models. The Bowen module described the eight core concepts of this approach and introduces participants to consider how to apply to a family in practice. The module introduces how to work with families to change understanding of multigenerational dynamics and work towards differentiation. 

The Narrative module covers the core concepts of this collaborative approach. Participants will learn ways to use questioning that is non-blaming, how to unpack the effects of the dominant stories and ways to develop alternative stories by using various techniques such as externalisation, deconstruction, and unique outcome questions. 10 – CPD hours

Attachment Based Family Therapy (ABFT), Functional Family Therapy (FFT), Multisystemic Therapy (MST) and The Open Dialogue Approach

This module covers four models of therapy providing an overview and the core concepts of how to apply the different approaches when working with clients. 

Part 1: ABFT reviews of the work of empirically informed family therapy model that is manualised emotion-focused therapy that aims to repair interpersonal ruptures and rebuild secure-based parent-child relationship.  

Part 2: FFT module provides an overview of this short-term intervention (12-15 sessions) that combines systemic therapy and cognitive –behavioural therapy. The five distinct phases of engagement, motivation, relational assessment, behaviour change, and generalization are described with examples of its application given. 

Part 3: MST module provides the framework for this problem- focused intervention that incorporates structural family therapy, behavioral parent training and CBT.

Part4: Open Dialogue approach. This module provides an overview of how to apply this model in practice which iinvolves a consistent family/social network approach to care carried out through meetings involving the patient together with his or her family members and extended social network. 10 – CPD hours

This online module will provide participants with a solid understanding of a number of different models and approaches to working with couples, review challenges of working with couples and provide ideas and structured exercises to enhance your knowledge and skills in working with couples who present with relationship difficulties.  Some of the models introduced in this online course include Emotionally Focused couples therapy (EFT) (Johnson; Greenberg), Collaborative Couples Therapy (Wile), Gottman Method Couples Therapy, and Discernment Counselling (Doherty). The module provides a range of readings and links to webinars and online teaching videos and self-reflective learning tasks.  Specific issues in couple therapy are also addressed with links to relevant readings and resources. 

This online course is equivalent to 10 CPD hours of professional development.  On completion of the online course you will receive a Certificate of Completion for 10 hours of study.