Family Systems

Family Systems

The Family Systems approach in psychotherapy explores how patterns of interaction, roles, communication styles, and unspoken rules within a family contribute to one’s distress and resilience. Learn from theorists such as Salvador Minuchin and Virginia Satir as they work with clients whose experiences are viewed as part of a broader relational pattern to increase awareness, flexibility, and healthier patterns of connection.

Using Family Systems Theory in Psychotherapy

In this 3-volume course, you’ll learn powerful, systems-informed tools to help resolve impasses with individuals, couples, and families by addressing the relational patterns and family-of-origin dynamics that keep clients feeling stuck. Deepen your work by integrating contextual factors—such as race, gender, and culture—and using genograms to situate presenting problems within a broader historical and social framework. Includes 8 CE credits.

Learn from the field's leading voices

Watch experts like Monica McGoldrick, Richard Schwartz, Scott Woolley, Elaine Pinderhughes, and others demonstrate their approaches and share clinical wisdom working in the framework of Family Systems.

See real therapy in action

Featuring clinical demonstrations and sessions with real clients, you’ll gain invaluable insights, practical techniques, and observe and model excellence.

Explore a spectrum of approaches and populations

Get resources for working with a wide range of real clients including couples, families, children, adolescents, interracial relationships, and blended families.

Get CE that does more than just satisfy requirements

Satisfy your curiosity, inspire your clinical practice, shape your therapeutic presence, foster your professional growth with continuing education that does more than just satisfy license requirements.

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From small group practices to nationwide behavioral health systems to ivy league universities, we offer multi-user solutions tailored to suit your needs.

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Family Systems Videos and Courses

Using Family Systems Theory in Psychotherapy
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Using Family Systems Theory in Psychotherapy

Family Systems Therapy
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Family Systems Therapy

Internal Family Systems Therapy
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Internal Family Systems Therapy

The Legacy of Unresolved Loss: A Family Systems Approach
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The Legacy of Unresolved Loss: A Family Systems Approach

Using Family Play Genograms in Psychotherapy
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Using Family Play Genograms in Psychotherapy