Systemic Family Therapy

Classes run twice a week — Tuesday and Thursday, 14:00–16:00. Registration is open.

Module 1

Couple Therapy

Man-woman relationships

Work with the couple system: from assessment to the crisis stage. Intake, genogram, roles and boundaries, patterns, the approach to infidelity and impending divorce.

3 months of classes + 6 months of supervision 16 lessons twice a week × 2 hours

Total for the programme: 900 AZN — 3 months of classes and 6 months of supervision included; payable at 300 AZN a month × 3 months, or 800 AZN with prepayment. The price is the same in person and online.

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1. Identifying disharmony in the family system — assessment
2. The intake session in couple therapy
3. Analysis of the conflict situation
4. The genogram — the family life cycle
5. Defining roles in the family system and strained boundaries
6. Psychodrama — psychotherapeutic techniques in the family model
7. Unwritten rules — sharing obligations and the cost of breaking them
8. Identifying patterns in the relationship
9. Applying methods from classical and contemporary schools of family therapy
10. The range of problems systemic family therapy addresses
11. Meeting personal needs and freedom of choice
12. Methods of communication (G. Bateson’s theory)
13. Psychotherapeutic techniques in family relationships and worked cases
14. Work in a critical period (infidelity, abuse, the approach on the verge of divorce)
15. Analysing the relationship with a person suffering from addiction (alcohol, drugs, gambling and so on)
16. The supportive stage in family therapy

Video recordings of the training — you can watch a class by each trainer in advance:Dr. Ragimov’s class Samira Ragimova’s class

Module 2

Parent-Child Relationships

Family therapy for parents

Stages of a child’s development and its critical points, intra-family functional disorders, building a model of communication, play therapy, fears and aggression. For psychologists, teachers and parents.

3 months of classes + 6 months of supervision 16 lessons twice a week × 2 hours

Total for the programme: 900 AZN — 3 months of classes and 6 months of supervision included; payable at 300 AZN a month × 3 months, or 800 AZN with prepayment. The price is the same in person and online.

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1. Stages of a child’s psychophysiological development
2. Critical points in the stages of development
3. Symptom-based assessment in family therapy
4. Functional disorders within the family
5. Systemic analysis of family stories
6. Building a model of communication with the child
7. Ways out of strained relationships, correcting parental methods
8. Children’s behaviour patterns in troubled families
9. Neurotic and behavioural disorders in children
10. Play therapy — correcting the behaviour model
11. Aggressive behaviour in children — the punishment model
12. Children’s fears and practical ways out
13. Problems of falling behind in schooling
14. Regulating a child’s psyche in a single-parent family
15. Methods of sex education in the family
16. Managing family relationships with a person who has a specific illness or behavioural limitation

The programme is for psychologists, school psychologists, teachers, coaches, students and parents; a degree is not required. The course ends with an exam and a certificate from the International Psychotherapy Accreditation Society.