The Family Therapy Training Network has over thirty years’ experience in collaboratively designing and delivering training. We bring theory based practice from the field of family therapy and systemic practice and an extensive knowledge of adult learning to the process. In conversation with agencies we can work to understand your training requirements and tailor short and longer trainings that play their part in developing your workforce.
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Family TherapyCourse Overview
The Family Therapy Training Network has over thirty years’ experience in collaboratively designing and delivering training.
We bring theory based practice from the field of family therapy and systemic practice and an extensive knowledge of adult learning to the process. In conversation with agencies we can work to understand your training requirements and tailor short and longer trainings that play their part in developing your workforce.
Training is always delivered by experienced professionally accredited practitioners.
What We Offer
Trainees complete a total of 200 study hours requiring :
- The Family Therapy Training Network offers agency based trainings
- Whole agency or team based workshops
- Whole agency or team based short courses systemic practice and family interventions
- Professionally accredited longer courses within workplaces
- Practice based, issue specific family interventions, short course ie, chronic illness, alcohol, family violence, childhood sexual abuse, professional networks
We can offer one day taster and two and five day short courses, with or without practice consultation following the course to support clinicians in applying systemic concepts in their work.
Introduction to Family Therapy (level 1)
Example courses include our two-day in house training with training in using a variety of systemic concepts including:
Day 1
- Genograms and the family lifecycle
- Power, ethics and Social GRACES
- Introduction to Family Scripts, Sculpts and Lenses
Day 2
- Family Dynamics and theories of Change
- Risk and Resilience
- Therapeutic Use of Self – Bringing into practice
This course is available with or without follow up practice consultation
Introduction for Family Therapy (level 2)
Five day courses can also be provided such as the five-day course designed for NHS Education Scotland for childrens’ mental health clinicians. All courses can be adapted to best suit your own agencies’ needs.
This training is run over five days in blocks of two days, two days and one day. This is followed by eight two-hour consultation sessions where systemic training is consolidated through training input and case discussion.
Course outline: Day 1
- Introduction to systemic family therapy and the learning contracts
- Family stories and scripts: what we bring
- Genograms
Course outline: Day 2
- Genograms (continued), Lifecycle and Family Functioning
- Collaborative enquiry/ Systems thinking, professional networks
Course outline: Day 3
- Theoretical contributions to understanding and interventions in families, attachment and resilience
- Social GRACES
Course outline: Day 4
- Circularity, curiosity, uncertainty and irreverence
- Questions as interventions
- Case discussion and presentations
Course outline: Day 5
- Theories of change and introduction to models
- Therapeutic use of self
- Case discussion and presentations
Subsequent sessions are lead by the practice requirements of the participants
