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Working with Resistance

When working with clients it is not uncommon to encounter a client that is resistant towards the therapeutic process. A resistant client is one that either directly or indirectly opposes changing their...

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Our prices have recently been dropped by 30%! Take advantage of this great deal and get those CEUs!

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Additional Clinical Applications of Specialized Family Therapy

In addition to resolving estrangement issues reconciling a  parent and a child in a separated family , Specialized Family Therapy also has broad applications to assist separated parents or those in an...

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Building Respectful Relationships in Stepfamilies

During the course of Co-Parenting Counseling with divorced natural parents, it is necessary to work a bit with any stepparent, whether or not a formal second marriage has taken place. Since the...

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A segment from the Essential Handbook of Specialized Family Therapy

The Initial Separate Face-to-Face Sessions In the first session, any administrative paperwork, consents, releases to the court, and assessments need to be completed. While these activities may be...

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True Resistance that occasionally occurs in the initial session or sessions

There are a minority of cases where true resistance emerges right in the initial session and is at work despite the therapist’s careful and respectful engagement work. The resistant family member wants...

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Specialized Family Therapy : Exploratory Outcomes

Executive Summary This report explores the outcomes, services, and demographic aspects of a sample of clients who attended Specialized Family Therapy (Heidish, Maury, 2009) between 2012 and 2013. The...

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Cognitive Dissonance experiences of SFT therapists

In the most productive co parenting or reconciliation counseling sessions the individual parents respond to each other and to the therapist with relief as they agree on options to their previous...

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Reconciliation and Co-Parenting Counseling Research Report

The Reconciliation and Co-Parenting Counseling Research Report explores the impact of Reconciliation/Co-Parenting Counseling (RCPC) on a sample of individuals who were court-referred to Family...

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Specialized Family Therapy Course now approved by NASW for 4 Ceu’s

We are proud to announce that this Specialized Family Therapy Training Regimen Course has been approved for four CEU credits having been recently authorized by the National Association of Social...

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Reconciliation as a essential part of family life

The Specialized Family therapy treatment model seeks to reconcile a given parent with his or her children. SFT also to some extent attempts to reconcile separated parents in terms of jointly raising...

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Structural Family Therapy and Strategic Family Therapy applications in...

I am sometimes asked why Structural Family Therapy and Strategic Family therapy are not featured as core components of Specialized Family therapy: Reconciliation and Co-Parenting Counseling. There is a...

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New upcoming Companion training Piece: The Essential Handbook of Advanced...

In 2011, I was the recipient of the Dr. Albert B. Craig Jr, Memorial Award for innovation in Behavioral Health services for the creation of Specialized Family Therapy. Also recently, the Specialized...

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Coming May 15th 2016, The Building A Specialized Family Therapy practice Guide

The major aim of the Building and funding and SFT Practice guide is to assist Program Developers, Grant Writers and Social Service Administrators with material to develop position papers. The position...

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Working through the Custodial Parent

In Specialized Family Therapy cases, the reconciliation counseling component is necessary when there is an estranged parent from the children, and the other parent is the custodial parent. Irrespective...

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The Importance of Engagement

When we refer to the engagement process we are talking about the process in which clients become active and involved in their treatment process. A lot of us may feel that the engagement process only...

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A preview of the Advanced Specialized Family Therapy Handbook

1 Author’s Experiential Backdrop At this point it is important to contextualize the therapeutic process within the larger community context and thus reviewing some of the characteristics and external...

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More reasons for the Practice of Specialized Family Therapy

1.1 General Trends and Population Characteristics Let me share another piece of the upcoming Advanced Handbook of Specialized Family Therapy…. Trends in family household structure indicate that in 2012...

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Important part of Section 3 of the Building a Specialized Family Therapy...

Most Specialized Family Therapy cases involved were court ordered cases, usually regarding separated, never married or divorced parents petitioning the family court over contentious custody/visitation...

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Introduction to the Upcoming Building an SFT Practice Guide

Preface In 2011, I was the recipient of the Dr. Albert B. Craig Jr, Memorial Award for innovation in Behavioral Health services for the creation of Specialized Family Therapy. Also recently, the...

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