Family Crisis Intervention

A course on working with families in crisis. It introduces family therapy approaches and considers the family as a whole, alongside the person seeking help.

Topics

• Assessing a family crisis
• Choosing useful interventions and their timing
• Referral to another specialist and ending therapy
• The therapist’s own beliefs, values and experience
• Day 1: understanding and assessing family crises
• Day 2: family therapy techniques
• Day 3: the self of the therapist
• Day 4: ending therapy