Course description

Effective family therapy relies on having an accurate understanding of the inner workings of a family, including how things go wrong. This course utilizes concepts of family systems theory including homeostasis, negative feedback loops, and positive feedback, to help you understand, identify, and track changes in common family interaction cycles. Multiple case examples are used to illustrate the identification of the cycle and how it can explain complex sets of family problems.

1 Hour CE. Recorded Video Format (non-interactive)

Learning objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Define homeostasis as it relates to family functioning

  • Describe at least three interventions that can be used to gather information on family interaction cycles

  • Differentiate between positive and negative feedback as applied in the context of family assessment

Course outline

1. Feedback

a. Positive and negative feedback

b. Feedback in families

2. Family Assessment

a. What you're looking for

b. Unbalancing 

c. Assumptions when a family seeks therapy

3. Case examples


References

Reviews

Excellent!

Lauren Kunik

This course provided a very clear and cohesive review of some of the concepts I learned about in graduate school in my family therapy course. It also provided an extremely helpful explanation of the concept of identifying an interaction cycle wit...

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This course provided a very clear and cohesive review of some of the concepts I learned about in graduate school in my family therapy course. It also provided an extremely helpful explanation of the concept of identifying an interaction cycle within a family system and several methods for the clinical application of this approach.

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Excellent. Lots of useful content. Liked presenter - very dynamic.

Susan Falcon

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Great presentation with helpful tools for practice.

Leigh Devine

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Instructor

Angela Caldwell, MA, LMFT

Angela Caldwell, MA, LMFT is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#45163). She serves as founder and director of the Caldwell Family Institute in Los Angeles, specializing in family-based treatment. She has been teaching graduate students for over a decade, including teaching assessment for a majority of her teaching career and designing curriculum for a graduate-level assessment course. She is currently an adjunct professor at California State University Northridge, teaching systems theory and related courses. She has specialized training and experience in family-based treatment for non-suicidal self-injury.

Additional Information

Format and Length:

Recorded video format (non-interactive). Total running time 65 minutes.

Topic Area:

Clinical Practice

Instructional Level:

Intermediate. This course assumes graduate-level knowledge of common family structures and their range of impacts on functioning.

Completion Requirements:

To obtain your CE certificate, you must progress through all course segments, complete a satisfaction survey, and obtain a score of 80% or higher on a course completion quiz. Learners are expected to complete the quiz within a reasonable number of attempts, and may be blocked from completing the course and receiving their certificate if unable to do so.

Completion Quiz and Course Evaluation:

After watching course videos, the course completion quiz will be available to complete, followed by the course evaluation.

Who Should Attend:

Psychologists, counselors, masters or doctoral level clinical social workers, and marriage and family therapists.

Publication and Review Dates:

Course Published: January 6, 2020
Course Reviewed: October 29, 2020 

Financial Support Statement:

SimplePractice pays course presenters for their teaching. There is no other financial support for this course.

Conflict of Interest Statement:

There is no outside commercial support for this course. The presenter discloses a family relationship with the Education Director. In accordance with our policy, the Education Director is recused from all Curriculum Committee decision-making involving this course. Decisions about content approval are made at the Curriculum Committee level.

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Contact Information:

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System Requirements:

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Continuing Education Approvals:

SimplePractice is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SimplePractice maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course provides 1 hour of continuing education (1 CE credit) for psychologists.

SimplePractice has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6961. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. SimplePractice is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

SimplePractice has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6961. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. SimplePractice is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

SimplePractice, #1749, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Simple Practice maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 07/06/2021 – 07/06/2024. Social workers participating in this course will receive 1 continuing education credit in the Clinical topic area.

SimplePractice is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LPCCs, LCSWs, and LEPs (CAMFT CEPA provider #145276). SimplePractice maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course meets the qualifications for 1 hour of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

SimplePractice is approved as a Rule/Statute Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling. Note that we do not automatically report CE completion to CE Broker at this time, so certificates of completion must be manually uploaded. Click here for more information.

SimplePractice LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0582. 

SimplePractice LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0030.

SimplePractice LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0091.

SimplePractice LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0206.

This course is not part of our continuing education program approved through NAADAC. Click here to view our complete CE approval information, or check out our collection of NAADAC approved courses.