The Magic of Connection

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A 10 WEEK COURSE

ALTERNATING THURSDAY MORNINGS

This course is being revised for 2025

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Paula Ochs LCSW, TEP

 

 

Are you working with children and adolescents and feel that you would like to know how to engage the parents in your work in order to enhance your effectiveness with your clients? Are you unsure of how to help your individual adult clients resolve 

issues with family of origin or current family members? If you answered yes, you will benefit from this 10 week course, 

Foundation in Family Therapy

 

This 10-week intensive training in family therapy in Northern NJ  offers clinicians in private practice and in agency environments a foundation in family therapy. Participants will gain an understanding of: why family therapy is a revolutionary step in psychotherapy; the importance of family dynamics; the role of intergenerational dynamics in the family structure; the importance of the body/mind connection; and the development of the self as therapist.

 

                 THIS COURSE RECEIVED A RATING OF 4.5 OUT 5.0 BY PARTICIPANTS

           WHO EXPERIENCED THE CLASS BOTH IN PERSON AND ONLINE!

 

CE INFORMATION

I am renewing my application for CE's for 2025.

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For more information on

Foundation in Family Therapy contact Paula Ochs

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This course is appropriate for licensed social workers, especially LCSW's, family therapists, and counselors who are interested in learning how to do clinical work with couples and families. There are limited seats available.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Paula Ochs will draw on her rich experience as an active clinician, supervisor, and educator in order to teach beginning and intermediate level clinicians who wish to treat couples and families. Paula has taught and supervised for many years and has found that experiential leaning is the most powerful form of learning.  She uses a unique combination of Structural, Developmental, and Psychodramatic theories in her work.   

 

Participants will learn that current and past events and relationships, both physical and psychological, along with 

environmental factors, have a profound effect on couples and families.  Paula will provide instruction using videotaped sessions from master clinicians.  She will also reference writings from leaders such as Thomas Szasz and 

Daniel N. Stern, designed to challenge common assumptions about mental health.  Participants will engage in role-play and sculpting in order to learn the concepts.

 

Participants will be able to…

 

• Gain an overview of family treatment and its relation to clinical practice.

• Reframe problems from an individual to an interpersonal perspective.

• Develop skills in making systemic and developmental assessments/ interventions that embrace current relationships/events and include the dynamics of family of origin.

• Learn how to incorporate movement/action in assessments and interventions with a wide range of clients.

• Develop multi-cultural sensitivity in assessing dysfunctional patterns and acquiring knowledge of appropriate interventions to alter family structure.

• Identify how participants’ roles and experiences in their family of origin and current life have an impact on the therapist/client relationship and treatment. A certificate is provided at the end of the course.

 

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