European Family Therapy Association - EFTA

Information
Domain: 
Organizations / Agencies / Standards and networks related to Family Therapy. Occupational Therapy, Family Educators and Family Support Paraprofessionals
City: 
Brussels
Country: 
Belgium
Sector: 
Nonprofit
Level of Organization: 
European
Organization's Role: 
Educational Methodological Coordination, Supervision, Other
Link: 
https://efta-tic.eu
Skills (if listed on the website): 

Clinical training &clinical experience

- Generalclinical skills and experience of working with a range of mental health problems
-The main element issupervised clinical practice with families, couples, individuals and organizations, with significant component of ‘live’ supervised practice
-The clinical component of the training (direct work under supervision and observing/discussing the work of other trainees) will form one third to one half of the specialist training

Personal development:
-Trainees areable to identify and manage their own personal involvement in and contribution to theprocess of therapy
-Self-reflexivity and self-awareness as professionals
Continuing personal and professional development: (CPD)

Continuing personal and professional development: (CPD)
It is strongly recommended that all family and systemic therapists undertake CPDafter completion of training.

Target beneficiaries: 

Family and Systemic Therapists and Supervisors

Comments: 

EFTA is primarily an advisory rather than a regulatory body. In relation to training standards its role is to define, through its three chambers, the criteria for the quality of training both of individual family and Systemic therapists and supervisors and of training programmes in institutes and schools. EFTA is recognized by the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) as the European Wide Accrediting Organization (EWAO) for family and systemic therapy.

Skills development: Between one third to one half of the specialist training should be dedicated to theseareas.

EFTA Guidelines (Minimum Training Standards) 2011 4 The way in which professional development is achieved during family and systemic therapy training may include personal therapy, group work, and family of originwork (e.g. using genograms) or, in some cases, direct work with the trainee’s ownfamily.

Aspects of personal development will also form an important part of thesupervision process. Given the diversity of personal development work (and the varying needs of individual trainees), it would be misleading to make specific requirements for theamount of time that should be devoted to this area of training.