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• Pennsylvania Wrap-Around Service Providers: July Workshops
• Introduction to Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy
• COAMFTE-Accredited, Part-Time Intensive Program
• Extern Program
• Clinical Supervision Program
• Summer Practicum
• Supervision of Supervision, AAMFT-approved

1. Pennsylvania Wrap-Around Service Providers: July Workshops
For behavior specialists, mobile therapists, therapeutic staff support workers and supervisors

• Pennsylvania CASSP competencies for child and adolescent mental health practitioners
• Competency-based knowledge with applied skills emphasis

2. Introduction to Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy - Discontinued

3. COAMFTE-Accredited, Part-Time Intensive Program
Intensive training for clinicians in the theory and practice of family therapy, leads to state licensure and AAMFT clinical membership application

• Accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)
• For a minimum of 12 months, two hours weekly individual supervision for five, off-site client contact hours and five, on-site client contact hours
• 250 hours minimum clinical work at the Training Center's clinical sites
• Four courses plus self-study projects
• 20 weekly, eight-hour, day-time group (maximum 6 trainees) sessions in the first year
• Group sessions scheduled Monday (October to April)
• One-way mirror individual and group supervision
• Role playing
• AAMFT-approved supervision
• Certificate of completion awarded
• Training in Philadelphia, central or southern New Jersey

4. Extern Program
For beginning, intermediate or advanced clinicians to improve skills in family therapy

• Two applied family therapy courses
• 20 weekly, eight-hour, day-time group (maximum 6 trainees) sessions in the first year
• Group sessions scheduled Mondays (October to April)
• One-way mirror and group supervision
• Videotaped individual and group supervision
• Role playing
• AAMFT-approved supervision
• Certificate of completion awarded
• Training in Philadelphia

5. Clinical Supervision Program
For practitioners needing individual and/or group supervision of family and marital therapy (skills/state licensure)

• Monthly, four-hour group sessions (maximum 6 trainees/group)
• Videotape or audiotape supervision, one-way mirror case consultation and/or case discussion
• Individual or paired supervision may also be arranged at trainees' convenience
• AAMFT-approved supervision
• Supervision by licensed psychologists and AAMFT-Approved, LMFT Supervisors

6. Summer Practicum
For family-centered practitioners wanting an intensive, three-week family therapy training experience

• Sessions June 9 to June 27, 2008
• One-way mirror individual and group supervision
• Videotaped individual and group supervision
• AAMFT-approved supervision
• Family therapy seminar
• Role playing
• Certificate upon successful completion
• Low-cost housing available

7. AAMFT-Approved Supervision Mentoring: Fundamentals
To evolve a model of supervision or to become an AAMFT-approved supervisor

• Course offered July 7-10, 2008
• Each course covers generic supervision issues, literature review, case discussion and diverse theoretical models
• AAMFT-approved supervision
• Low-cost housing available
• Eligibility determined by a phone interview