The Minuchin Center for the Family
Jorge Colapinto, LMFT and Jay Lappin, LCSW
STRUCTURAL FAMILY THERAPY EXTERN PROGRAM
Offered in collaboration with
United Family Services
The Structural Family Therapy Extern Program is designed for clinicians who have completed the 4 day 20 hour Intensive Structural Family Therapy course, have a minimum of 2 years experience working with families and/or couples, and wish to develop their understanding of the principles of the structural model and their ability to make structural assessments and interventions on a wide range of problems.
Trainees meet sixteen times over an 8-month period from10 am to 2 pm in a small groupwith two trainers. The Extern program supervision of and consultation on the therapists’ own work.
Tuition: $3,400 check or money order made out to United Family Services, ½ due by September 12; ½ due by January 6.
Stipends & all or part of tuition available for qualified candidates willing to work a minimum of 8 hours/week providing therapy in homes of youth and families.
Dates: 16 Mondays September 2017 through
April 2018
Time: 10am to 2 pm
Location: 1 Lupton Avenue
Woodbury, NJ 08096
Contact: 856-537-5081 Email:
FACULTY:
Jorge Colapinto, LMFT and Jay Lappin, M.S.W., LCSW, AAMFT Approved Supervisors, are senior Structural Family Therapists who, with over 80 years of combined clinical practice, have used the model as a platform for a wide range of clinical experience. They both have their SFT practice roots at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic (PCGC) with Salvador Minuchin, M.D., Braulio Montalvo, Marianne Walters, Charles Fishman among other renowned Clinic Faculty & Staff. At PCGC, they taught together on faculty in the Training Center’s Extern Program and were individually clinicians or consultants on a number of innovative clinical programs including: low income, single parent families, grandparent headed families, foster care and substance abuse. They both have experience consulting and teaching nationally and world-wide and have extensive publications:
www.minuchincenter.org/our_publications
www.colapinto.com
www.jaylappin.com
Both Jorge and Jay have devoted their professional lives to sharing their knowledge and expertise of SFT. Both have been recognized for their contributions to the field of family therapy. Jorge has received a Contribution To Social Justice Award from The American Family Therapy Academy. Jay, with his wife Joyce, has received recognition for Distinguished Contribution to the American Family Therapy Academy.
Currently, Jorge is the Coordinator for Training and Consultation for the Minuchin Center for the Family (MCF) where Jay is an honorary member of the Board of Directors.
Structural Family Therapy is currently under study as an evidence-based model for child welfare preventative services:
MCF Current Research
Jorge and MCF faculty member, Richard Holm, are in their second year of a joint project with Brooklyn Community Services, sponsored by the Annie E Casey Foundation, to develop a model for practice for child welfare preventative services based on Structural Family Therapy.