For Agencies & Organizations
Ackerman offers a wide array of community trainings and workshops tailored to meet the learning needs of staff and mental health professionals in agencies, clinics, private group practices, school, hospitals, and community-based organizations.
For Agencies & Organizations
Ackerman offers a wide array of community trainings and workshops tailored to meet the learning needs of staff and mental health professionals in agencies, clinics, private group practices, school, hospitals, and community-based organizations.
Ackerman’s community training workshops are specifically designed to meet the learning needs of agency staff and can be provided as a one-time event or as a more intensive series of several full or half-day trainings. Case consultations and/or live case consultations can be included in any training series. All presentations integrate ideas from family systems theory and the Ackerman Relational Approach. Presenters highlight teaching points with video of family therapy sessions.
Our Community Training Workshops:
- An Overview of Family Therapy: The Ackerman Relational Approach
- Adolescence & Substance Abuse: Creating a Relational Frame in the Context of Addiction Treatment
- Collaborative Therapeutic Conversations with Latino Immigrant Families
- Celebrating Gender Diversity in Clinical Practice Part 1
- Celebrating Gender Diversity in Clinical Practice Part 2
- Connection and Independence: The Relational Dance of Adolescents
- Dímelo en Español: Collaborative Therapeutic Conversations with Latino Immigrant Families
- Dímelo en Español: Consultation Session for MH Providers in School Settings
- Early Child Development and Parenting Processes
- Embracing Multicultural, Anti-racist Communities: Maintaining a Culturally Humbling Approach When Working Across Differences
- The Family Context: Risk, Resilience and Performance
- Family Systems Work with Adolescents: Specific Areas of Focus
- From Crisis to Connection: Consultation Session for MH Providers in School Settings
- From Crisis to Connection: Family Therapy with Adolescents
- From Cultural Competency to Cultural Curiosity: Challenging Dominant Cultural Assumptions in Therapy
- Grief and Loss: Accompanying Families through Mourning and Meaning Making
- Healing the Healer: Practices for Restoring the Self and Spirit During a Pandemic
- Healing Intergenerational Wounds: A Relational-Neurobiological Approach
- Immigration Trauma
- Introduction to Family-Based Suicide Prevention
- An Introduction to Working with Couples
- Mental Illness and the Family
- Moving Fathers Forward: Strategies for Working with Fathers in the 21st Century
- Narrative Therapy with Children
- Neurodivergent Students: How Stress Impacts Behavior
- Overcoming Obstacles in Engagement: Social Location and the Self of the Therapist
- Overview of Attachment Based Family Therapy
- Resilience and Wellness Training for Staff
- Social-Emotional Learning for Staff, Students and Families
- A Systemic-Relational Approach to Working with Families in Foster Care
- Treating Adolescents and Their Families
- Treating Children with Relational Trauma
- Understanding Prolonged Grief Disorder and its Treatment
Held in partnership with the Center for Prolonged Grief - Working with Families Struggling with Substance Misuse
- Working with Families Struggling with Substance Misuse Skills Building & Consultation Session for Mental Health Providers
- Working with Gender Expansive Youth
Contact:
To plan a workshop or training program tailored for your agency please contact:
Melissa Tandy
Director of Community & International Training
mtandy@ackerman.org