Bringing Common Factors to Life: Practical Techniques for Pe

Bringing Common Factors to Life: Practical Techniques for Personalized Psychotherapy Integration

This 15 CE course is approved for 3 Ethics CEs and 12 general CEs for KY MFT. It is approved for 15 general CEs for KY SW and KY LPC. CE Sponsor Approved Provider for Indiana Behavioral Health and Human Services Board.

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Course Overview

Course Description

With the aim of renewing motivation, energy, and creativity in a therapists clinical work, this course explores how common factors may be utilized to increase effectiveness in couple and family therapy. Practicing a specific approach or model for couple and family therapy may fulfill many initial therapist needs, but over time it is developmentally normal for your enthusiasm to wane for a specific way of practicing this therapy. This course therefore provides a common factors framework which may help alleviate feelings of "staleness" and reinvigorate your practice. Different from previous theoretical texts about common factors, this offering will help you construct a personalized plan that will allow you to take charge of your therapeutic development. AAMFT Training Award Winner, Dr. Eli Karam presents helpful strategies and exercises to build on your previously existing therapeutic skill set, stoke curiosity for the work, counter against burnout and frustration and, most importantly, achieve consistently better outcomes for your clients. This new resource is essential viewing for seasoned systemic therapists who want to improve their clinical skills and personal effectiveness, as well as students and professionals just starting their journey into this type of clinical work.

Participants who complete this course will:

1) Become more intentional in personalized psychotherapy integration.

2) Explain the history and guiding principles about what works in CFT and the related common factors.

3) Apply examples and explore how to integrate a common factors perspective into your current theoretical orientation.

4) Monitor and get feedback on therapist effectiveness by using both practical techniques and user-friendly resources.

Course curriculum

1. Overview/Welcome
2. Course PowerPoints
1. Psychotherapy Integration
2. Specific Pathways to Integration
1. Reflection #1
2. Picking the “Right” Model
3. Worldview Self-Reflection
1. Reflection #2
2. Making the Case for Common Factors
3. Common Factors of Systemic Therapy
4. Model Driven Change vs. Common Factors Driven Change
5. Strengthening the Systemic Ties that Bind – JMFT
6. Reflection #3
1. Common Factor Case Study Couple #1 Overview- Donald & Mary
2. Donald & Mary Problem Cycle
3. Common Factor Case Study Couple #2 Overview– Justin & Kelly
4. Justin & Kelly Problem Cycle
1. Reflection #4
2. Maximizing Client Factors - Part 1
3. Client System Self-Awareness to Cycle - Donald & Mary
4. Assessing Couple Motivation with Dr. Eli's Continuum
5. Assessing Motivation and Commitment - Justin & Kelly
6. Assessing Motivation and Commitment - Donald & Mary
7. Maximizing Client Factors - Part 2
8. Stages of Change Client Questions
9. Couple Motivation Continuum
10. Questions to Assess & Enhance Client Motivations
1. Reflection #5
2. Enhancing Therapist Factors - Part 1a
3. Enhancing Therapist Factors - Part 1b
4. Enhancing Therapist Factors - Part 2: Connecting to "Way of Being" & Conceptualizing the Problem Cycle in Relational Terms
5. Conceptualizing the Problem Cycle in Relational Terms – Donald & Mary
6. Conceptualizing the Problem Cycle in Relational Terms – Justin & Kelly
7. Enhancing Therapist Factors - Part 3: Helping Clients Speak the Unspoken
8. Helping Clients “Speak the Unspoken.” - Donald & Mary
9. Enhancing Therapist Factors - Part 4: Knowing When to Expand the Client System
10. Expanding the System - Jake and Allie
11. Enhancing Therapist Factors - Part 5: Maintaining Proper Activity Level in Session by Being Direct & Creating Space
12. Balancing Being Direct vs. Creating Space - Donald & Mary
13. Enhancing Therapist Factors - Part 6: Preparation & Review
14. Deliberate Practice - AAMFT Podcast
15. Reflection #6
1. Reflection #7
2. Nurturing the Therapeutic Alliance: Introduction
3. Integrative Therapeutic Alliance Concepts
4. Alliance Rupture & Repair
5. Linking Tasks, Goals & Bonds Together
1. Reflection #8
2. Instilling Hope: Introduction
3. Hope as a Natural Complement to CFT
4. Taking a "Hope History" & the "In My Control" Chart
5. “In My Control” Client Self-Reflection
6. Remoralizing Rituals of Renewal
7. Therapeutic Ritual Guidelines
8. Keep the Faith: Tapping into Spiritual Resources
9. The Power of Forgiveness
10. Forgiveness as a Pathway to Hope
11. Becoming a "Hope Merchant"
12. Sharing Therapist Hope - Donald & Mary
13. Instilling Hope- Justin & Kelly
1. Reflection #9
2. Creating a Feedback Culture: Introduction
3. Common Factor Feedback Interview
4. "Pivotal Moments" Feedback - Donald & Mary
5. "Pivotal Moments" Feedback - Justin & Kelly
6. Formal, Standardized Feedback Systems
7. Designing Your Own Feedback Survey
8. Couple Therapy Feedback Form
9. Family Therapy Feedback Form
1. Legal and Ethical Issues in Systemic Therapy Integration
2. MFT Legal/Ethical – (AAMFT Podcast)
3. Socioculturally Attuned Practice (AAMFT Podcast)
4. 2015 AAMFT Code of Ethics
5. No Secrets Policy
6. Reflection #10
1. Introduction
2. Common Factors Self-Supervision
3. Common Factors Pre-session Preparation Inventory
4. Common Factors Opening Assessment / Treatment Plan
5. Common Factor Case Note
6. Worksheet to be used while watching "Common Factor Couple Consultation: Sean & Sara"
7. Common Factor Couple Consultation: Sean & Sara
1. Bringing Common Factors to Life in Couple & Family Therapy
1. Evaluation for Bringing Common Factors to Life

About this course

$325.00
84 lessons
9.5 hours of video content