Partners for Collaborative Solutions
LEVEL II ADVANCED FOUR-DAY INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATE TRAINING PROGRAM IN COLLABORATIVE STRENGTHS-BASED FAMILY THERAPY
In this four-day advanced intensive training program, participants who completed the LEVEL I Five-Day Training Program will have the opportunity to learn how to apply the Collaborative Strengths-Based Family Therapy core principles and major therapeutic techniques and strategies to resolving highly challenging clinical dilemmas, running strengths-based groups, and applying these ideas to clinical supervision, management, and organizational change. There will be daily live couple and family therapy consultations, use of videotape examples of major therapeutic techniques and strategies, skill-building exercises, and Collaborative Strengths-Based Supervision with participants’ stuck cases. The LEVEL II four-day agenda of topics is as follows:
Monday:
Families on the Brink: Working with Families where Multiple Members have Serious DSM V Disorders
Working with Couple Partners and Family Members with Multiple Self-Destructive Habit Dependency Difficulties
Skill-Building Exercise
Family Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents
Live Family Therapy Consultation with a Family with Multiple Member DSM V Disorders
Post-Session Reflections and Future Directions for Therapeutic Work
Collaborative Strengths-Based Supervision with Participants’ Stuck Cases
Live Couple Therapy Consultation with a Partner Presenting with Multiple Self-Destructive Habits
Post-Session Reflections and Future Directions for Therapeutic Work
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Tuesday:
Walking the Tightrope: Transforming Families with an Alcohol or Substance-Abusing Parent and a Substance-Abusing Adolescent
Working with Violent Couples and Families: Keys to Co-Creating Safer and More Preferred Workable Realities
Live Family Therapy Consultation with a Substance-Abusing Family
Post-Session Reflections and Future Directions for Therapeutic Work
Skill-Building Exercise
Collaborative Strengths-Based Supervision with Participants’ Stuck Cases
Live Couple Therapy Consultation with a Couple Presenting with Anger Management Difficulties and Violence
Post-Session Reflections and Future Directions for Therapeutic Work
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Wednesday:
Application of the Collaborative Strength-Based Model to Groupwork
The Solution-Oriented Parenting Group
The Stress-Busters’ Leadership Group for Self-Destructive Adolescents
Collaborative Strengths-Based Multiple Family Therapy Groups
Live Couple Therapy Consultation with a Couple Struggling with Co-Parenting Difficulties
Post-Session Reflections and Future Directions for Therapeutic Work
Skill-Building Exercise
Live Family Therapy Consultation with a Suicidal Adolescent
Post-Session Reflections and Future Directions for Therapeutic Work
Collaborative Strengths-Based Supervision with Participants’ Stuck Cases
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Thursday:
Collaborative Strengths-Based Supervision: An Empowering and Competency-Based Supervisory Approach
Skill-Building Exercise
Collaborative Strengths-Based Coaching
Collaborative Strengths-Based Management and Organizational Consulting
Live Systems Consultation with a Manager Seeking to Change the Organizational Culture
Post-Systems Consultation Reflections and Recommended Future Directions for Organizational Change
Collaborative Strengths-Based Supervision and Use of Consultation Teams with Participants’ Stuck Cases
Group Reflections About the Training Experience
Questions and Answers
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Matthew’s book Pathways to Change: Brief Therapy with Difficult Adolescents, Second Edition was just published in Korean. A copy was presented to me at my workshop in Seoul, which was hosted by the Korean Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association.
