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Training in Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy
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The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center is an outgrowth of the Family Therapy Training Center founded by Salvador Minuchin in 1975. The Center’s Director, Dr. Marion Lindblad-Goldberg, developed a more current model in the early 1980s. Her model, Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT), is a systemic, strength-based, and trauma-informed family therapy model that evolved from Dr. Minuchin’s Structural Family Therapy model (Minuchin 1974).
ESFT is an evidence-based model that targets treatment in outpatient or in-home community settings for families of children and adolescents with moderate to severe emotional and/or behavioral problems who are deemed at risk for out-of-home placement (Lindblad-Goldberg 2011; Lindblad-Goldberg et al. 1998, 2004; Lindblad-Goldberg and Northey 2013). Currently, the model also is being adapted by the Center’s Co-Director, Steve Simms, to treat addicted...
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Lindblad-Goldberg, M. (2017). Training Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapists and Supervisors. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_863-1
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