Introduction to Attachment-Based Family Therapy
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Description
This introductory workshop reviews the theory, research, and clinical strategies of attachment-based family therapy (ABFT). ABFT is a manualized, empirically supported family therapy designed to target family and individual processes associated with adolescent depression and suicide. Tested with diverse families, including low-income and minority families, ABFT is a trust-based, emotion- focused, process-oriented brief therapy. The model is organized by five treatment tasks that provide directionality. Participants will learn how this model helps families repair interpersonal ruptures that have damaged trust and rebuild emotionally protective, secure parent–child relationships.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Dr. Suzanne Levy-Rudolph is a internationally renowned licensed clinical psychologist and training director of the ABFT Training Program at Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions. Prior to this she was the training director and a clinical child psychologist at the Center for Family Intervention Science at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr.
Levy is a co-developer of Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT). ABFT is a manualized, empirically informed and supported, family therapy model specifically designed to target family and individual processes associated with adolescent suicide and/or depression.
Since 2007, Dr. Levy has been conducting ABFT training workshops and supervision for therapists nationally and internationally. She has presented regionally, nationally, and internationally on ABFT, emotion coaching, child and adolescent therapies, resilience, adolescent depression, adolescent development, and adolescent substance use.
Along with her colleagues, Drs. Guy and Gary Diamond, Dr. Levy has written the first book on ABFT, Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Depressed Adolescents published by the American Psychological Association.