Treatment fails when we provide traumatized families a plan to heal the child’s problems but do not troubleshoot loopholes or practice the plan’s delivery with dress rehearsals. Stuck families need help onboarding a plan otherwise it will fail. The FST (Family Systems Trauma) Model developed a Troubleshooting Countermoves Checklist that allows both the therapist and the family to identify any potential loopholes and “what will you do if?” scenarios to proactively address each one. A step-by-step script is used to help each family member implement dress rehearsals to deliver the plan successfully.
• Why our trauma treatment fails when we fail to troubleshoot and use dress rehearsals with our traumatized families and their children.
• How to use Troubleshooting Countermoves Checklists to identify any potential loopholes in the plan and “what will you do if?” scenarios to proactively address each one.
• How to use a step-by-step storyboard script to help each family member implement dress rehearsals to practice the delivery of the plan after troubleshooting it first.
• How to use Troubleshooting Countermoves Checklists to identify any potential loopholes in the plan and “what will you do if?” scenarios to proactively address each one.
• How to use a step-by-step storyboard script to help each family member implement dress rehearsals to practice the delivery of the plan after troubleshooting it first.
A case study along with video clips from a family trauma session will be used to illustrate both techniques of troubleshooting and dress rehearsals. Live Q & A with the instructor is encouraged.
NOTE: Continuing education credits and attendance certificates are NOT provided for this free webinar.
Scott P. Sells, Ph.D., MSW, LCSW, LMFT, is the author of three books, Treating the Tough Adolescent: A Family-Based, Step-by-Step Guide (1998), Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager: 7 Steps to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love (2001), and Treating the Traumatized Child: A Step-by-Step Family Systems Approach (2017).
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