training

Professional Training

The Center of Relationship Enhancement (CORE) offers professional training in Child/Play/Filial Therapy/Enrichment, Family Therapy, Parent-Adolescent Therapy and therapy for individuals, couples and groups.

These programs can be used for prevention and intervention, and to foster constructive change. RE programs and methods can also be adapted for use in organizational and work environments.

Participants in the training programs at CORE learn to integrate the principles, skills and methods of RE in their work and personal lives, and to become skilled in providing structured RE programs. All programs can be tailored to the needs of the organization or individual.

If you are interested in receiving certification in any of the RE programs described below, contact Dr. Ginsberg for requirements and an application form.

CORE training sessions are conducted as:

SINGLE-DAY INTENSIVE TRAINING WORKSHOPS
A SERIES OF DAY-LONG TRAINING WORKSHOPS
WEEKLY, IN TWO-HOUR TRAINING SEGMENTS (IN DOYLESTOWN, PA)
ON-SITE WORKSHOPS IN THE WORKPLACE

All training sessions are didactic, and use videotaped demonstrations, role-play practice and modeling.

On-Site Training
The effectiveness of re training in the workplace can be enhanced if it is provided on site. In this way, RE programs can be integrated with the ongoing work of the center or organization. Please contact Dr. Ginsberg for more information.

Continuing Education Credit
Continuing education credit in social work, counseling, psychology, play therapy and marriage and family counseling is available for all RE training.

Description of Training Programs

CHILD-CENTERED PLAY THERAPY
Young children express themselves through play. They also use play to make sense of the world, cope with their stresses and difficulties, improve their developmental skills, and model new behaviors and understandings. Child-centered play therapy, offered in a secure environment, provides a structured and systematic way for children to use their own resources to enhance their mastery and feelings about themselves.
Participants learn:

The rationale and methods of child-centered play therapy.
To structure and conduct a program of play therapy.
To role-play with other participants and receive supervision of play therapy skills.
To integrate play therapy in their own settings.

BRIEF CHILD-CENTERED FAMILY THERAPY/ENRICHMENT: THE FILIAL RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT APPROACH
Filial Therapy trains parents to conduct child-centered play therapy sessions with their own children at home. These home play sessions are the basis for a comprehensive and systemic program involving the entire family. Extensive research has demonstrated that filial therapy effectively resolves presenting problems; improves mastery, coping and competence in children; strengthens parent-child relationships, and improves family functioning.
Participants learn:

How the Filial approach empowers parents to help their children and themselves.
The principles, skills and values of child-centered play therapy.
To structure a program of Filial Therapy.
Methods of training and supervising parents for play sessions.
To help parents generalize the skills and methods learned in therapy and apply them to their everyday lives.
How Filial Therapy can be organized as a brief therapy.
To integrate Filial Therapy with other therapies into a whole family therapy.

BRIEF RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT THERAPY/ENRICHMENT FOR COUPLES
This therapy helps couples to engage more intimately, and to learn the skills necessary to generalize and maintain this emotional engagement throughout their lives. It helps them avoid negativity, criticism, and defensiveness in their relationships, and reduces the emotional loading that often causes relationships to spiral out of control..
Participants learn:

The rationale and values behind the educational skill training model of RE.
The CORE RE Skills and become familiar with the secondary skills of RE.
To structure a program of RE Couples therapy.
Methods of training and supervising couples in these methods.
To help couples implement what they have learned in their everyday lives.
To help couples maintain these skills over time.
To incorporate this intensive brief couples model in their own practices.

FAMILY RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT THERAPY/ENRICHMENT
This therapy and enrichment program elaborates on the principles and methods of Relationship Enhancement. It is designed to meet the needs of families with three or more persons. Special emphasis is placed on working with whole families, adolescents and parents, and families-of-origin. This approach helps people relate to each other more constructively, to be respectful of each other, and to take responsibility for their part in the relationship. Furthermore, it helps them understand each other better and remain emotionally engaged.
Participants learn:

Rationale and values.
CORE Skills and become familiar with related skills.
Basic principles of family development, organization and process.
To integrate skill training within a family systems perspective.
To organize and conduct a program of RE family therapy.
To incorporate this program in their own practices.

CHILD, MARRIAGE and FAMILY THERAPY TRAINING
This training is for those professionals who would like to learn more about working with children, couples and families. It emphasizes the process of therapy that engenders constructive and satisfying change, and is composed of a series of specialized programs that focus on understanding individual and family development, and how families function, The goal is to identify and understand the underlying processes that foster functionality and those processes that undermine it, Emphasis is placed on how to elicit the underlying positives that promote constructive change.
This series of training events includes emphasis on work with specific populations including:

Families having children with social, emotional, behavioral neurological and learning problems
Families with children diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Families with a retarded child
Stepfamilies
Couples with fertility problems
Adoptive and foster families

INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP SUPERVISION
These supervision sessions focus on understanding the presenting problem and fostering constructive change from a developmental and family systems perspective. These supervision sessions emphasize strengthening therapist skills in working with individuals, couples and families.

A case consultation model will be used to elicit concepts. Cases will be drawn from the supervisee's own clients. Didactic, role-play and experiential methods that include the use of audio-and videotape playback. Supervision sessions are held weekly, bi-weekly or monthly. Typically, training consists of 10 sessions. Booster and refresher sessions are scheduled to follow all training. AAMFT supervision is available for all supervision training.