One-Year and Two-Year Advanced Intensive Certificate

Faculty
Foremost among our program's strengths is our exceptional faculty with expertise and national recognition in many specialty areas. Faculty members also serve as mentors to discuss trainees' learning experiences and broader career goals.

Flexibility
CCFH offers a flexible curriculum to complement prior training, meet current practice needs, and prepare for new career paths. Individuals with substantial training in family therapy may apply for advanced standing.

Eligibility
The Certificate Program is open to post-master's degree professionals in social work, marriage and family therapy, counseling, psychology, medicine, nursing, and allied professions, e.g. family law. Trainees are expected to be working with couples or families while in the program. CCFH is committed to offering equal access to our programs, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, or physical condition. Scholarship assistance is available through the Irving B. Harris Scholarship Fund for trainees working with underserved populations.

One-Year Intensive Certificate Program
Specialty tracks include:

Child and Family Therapy (Wednesdays)

Couples Therapy (Thursdays)

Families, Illness, and Collaborative Healthcare (Thursdays)

       See Courses and Supervision Groups for more information.

One-Year Intensive Certificate: 120 training hours / CEUs
Two-Year Intensive Certificate: 240 training hours / CEUs
       Combines two tracks for the most comprehensive training in family systems approaches to practice.

Two-Year Intensive Certificate
Year 1
Family Therapy Course Sequence. This 30-week seminar sequence provides core practice concepts and methods grounded in our systems-oriented, strength-based, collaborative Family Resilience approach to work effectively and sensitively with a broad diversity of families and couples, addressing a range of issues. In the fall, the Family Therapy Course presents assessment and intervention guidelines by expert CCFH faculty, with video illustrations. In Winter/Spring, Intervention with Children, Adolescents & Families provides in-depth practice principles and techniques. See Courses for more information.

Clinical Supervision Groups: Level 1. Our 30-week small-group consultation team format builds skills and competencies in systemic assessment and intervention through case presentation, live observation, and video tracking of intervention process and progress. Groups focus on: Family Resilience Approach and Child, Adolescent and Family Therapy. See Supervision Groups for more information.

Year 2
Trainees may select and combine courses and supervision/consultation groups in advanced tracks specializing in Couples Therapy and Families, Illness & Collaborative Healthcare.



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