Advanced Certificate in Systemic Family Therapy & Practice
This 2-year training program is accredited by the Australian Association of Family Therapy (AAFT). AAFT is the independent peak body for family therapists in Australia and offers the only available pathway to independent accreditation of family therapy programs in Australia.
Completion of a 2 year AAFT accredited program is a required step towards membership of AAFT as a Clinical Family Therapist.
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Why Study Advanced Training with Phoenix Family Therapy Academy?
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Are you passionate about providing a high-quality holistic and individualized service, and maintaining sustainability and maneuverability in your practice?
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Would you like to develop your knowledge and skills to support individuals, couples, families, stakeholder groups, teams and organizations reach their goals and fulfill their potential with contemporary Systemic Family Therapy practice?
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Learn to “think systemically” by engaging with the foundations of systemic thinking & practice.
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Focus on contemporary practice including integrative systemic family therapy & understandings of neurobiology & trauma.
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Extend your knowledge and add to your skillset for a variety of clients & situations.
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Access and collect exceptional quality resources as you move through the program.
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Engage in an adult learning experience designed to enhance engagement and learning with practical, experiential learning opportunities making theory to practice links easily understandable & applicable.
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An adult learning journey that supports the development of comfort, confidence, & competence in systemic work and intentional practice.
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Become part of a community of professionals interested in systemic family therapy & practice.
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Increase effectiveness, intentionality, flexibility and maneuverability by learning how to take a multi-positioned approach to meet the needs of your clients.
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Consideration of your unique personal situation with a work-study-life balance with a combination of on-line & in-person components, & support throughout the program.
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A connected, supported experience of developing systemic thinking and practice.
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Accredited training with the Australian Association of Family Therapy.
Why complete the Advanced Certificate in Systemic Family and Practice?
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Phoenix Family Therapy Academic operates in line with contemporary practice, taking a multi-positioned perspective, drawing on theory and practice from across the evolution of family therapy including first, second and third generation approaches, and contemporary practice including considerations of Neuroscience, Evidence-Based Practice, Trauma Informed Care and Integrative Practice.
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This philosophy is based on integrative practice principles and acknowledges the significant contribution of different approaches to family therapy across time and the benefit of multiple perspectives in finding maneuverability in effectively supporting clients.
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In the Advanced Certificate in Systemic Family Therapy and Practice participants will:
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Be thoroughly grounded in Systems Theory in order to develop and refine their ability to ‘think systemically’
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Develop knowledge and skills in a variety of First and Second Generation schools of Family Therapy, including core principles, frameworks and philosophies
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First Generation: Understanding and changing patterns of behaviour and structures, and beliefs that hold these in place
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Second Generation: Understanding and working with meaning making, context, relationships and language
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Learn a meta-framework for integrative practice and knowledge and skills for working systemically with trauma in line with Third Generation approaches to Family Therapy in order to provide effective, individualised interventions.
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Third Generation: Integrative practice across schools of family therapy and with other psychotherapeutic approaches and paradigms e.g., neurobiology, trauma
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Explicitly link theory to practice
The Advanced Certificate in Systemic Family Therapy and Practice offers a unique opportunity to develop the capacity to use Systemic Family Therapy principles and practices in a wide range of settings with families, couples, individuals (Children, Adolescents, Adults), stakeholder groups, teams and organisations.
This program incorporates adult learning principles and has a large experiential component including experiential workshops, systemic group supervision, live supervision, and advanced workshops, as well as a structured reading group and as such is open to both local and distance students.
What's in a name?
The Phoenix Family Therapy Academy’s Advanced Certificate is called “Systemic Family Therapy and Practice” to highlight:
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A focus on the underlying concepts and foundations of family therapy to encapsulate that this is a framework for practice regardless of who the client is. As a framework for practice the focus is on how you think about and work with whoever the client is. This means a systemic framework can be used with an individual of any age, a couple or other dyadic constellation (e.g., a young person in residential care and a key worker, two adult siblings, a parent and child), a family of any constellation, a group of stakeholders who work together, a team, or even an organisation. Systemic thinking is also helpful for organisational consultancy and community work.