Who Should Access Internal Family Systems Continuing Education

This is the perfect choice for all mental health professionals as it’s an introductory course. Psychologists could learn a new model to add a new approach to their repertoire and help create dynamic treatment plans. Nurses could benefit from the knowledge and learn a new way to approach patients and best support them. By learning new approaches, you can best advocate for your patients even if you’re not directly implementing them in therapy.

Internal Family Systems is applicable in many forms of therapy as it promotes self-awareness leading to breakthroughs and understanding of past behaviors and intentions. It’s particularly useful in couple and family therapy as the goals aim to improve well-being and relationships. You’ll be learning the theory that each person is made of ‘parts’ and each has its own personality and motivations that must be managed to have a harmonious internal family. Bringing this model into couple or family therapy sessions helps people understand each other’s motivations and approach their interactions in a more balanced way.

There’s been a rise in the desire for life coaching as people seek spiritual growth or look for motivation and purpose in their life. Offering therapy based on Internal Family Systems to people like this can make more traditional therapy seem more accessible and will help them get in touch with their true ‘self’ which is the sum of all their parts. This new understanding of themselves is sure to lead to breakthroughs about what they want from their life.

What to Expect From the Introduction Course

This session will meet your live CE interactive credit requirements so you will be expected to be present for the whole course. You’ll be able to ask questions and participate in polls, so you’ll feel engaged with the content helping to reinforce learning. Taking a set time out of your day to attend a live training event can help avoid procrastination and ensure you see this as time to learn. Better yet, as it’s an introductory session, you won’t need to do any “homework” first to have existing knowledge to build on.

At Zur Institute, we like to combine different approaches to our continuing education offerings. Many people learn quicker when they’re actively involved in a course, but we also have many written courses available. A large percentage of these also have visual and audio options so no matter your learning style our courses can help. While you need to earn CE credits to keep up your qualification responsibilities, we strive to provide thoughtful, useful content. By sparking your curiosity and eagerness to learn, we hope we can help you view gaining your credits not as an obligation but as a catalyst to help boost your mental health career.

How to Implement What You’ve Learned

This is an introductory session to grasp the basics. You’ll likely need to book onto further training to integrate the approach into your practice. At Zur Institute, we have a passion for helping people rethink their ideas. We find using CE credits on introductory courses like this can help make you well-rounded and ready to challenge your work habits and add new approaches to your treatment plans. Attending multiple introduction sessions can also help you work out which one you’d like to explore more. Undergraduate degrees have a lot to cover so they approach the field of mental health broadly. Using your CE credits wisely means you can pick your own specializations.

You will see a demonstration of the model’s main techniques during the course, so you get a good idea how to use these new skills in your own sessions. You’ll also learn how it can help patients so you can begin to know which treatment plans to include it in and when it needs to be combined with other techniques. While you won’t have enough knowledge to bring it into your practice straight away, you could use the basics on yourself. The self-awareness it will encourage is never a bad thing in mental health professionals and you’ll also be putting yourself in the shoes of your patient helping to build your empathy skills. If you research Internal Family Systems more, you’ll see the model can be used in business settings too. It can help improve communication and understanding of the self and others leading to better teamwork. This offers a potential new avenue for you to explore by offering your services to businesses.

To start your Internal Family Systems journey, register today. If you have any questions, check our support page to see if they’ve already been answered. Make sure to set enough time aside so you arrive rested and ready to participate. We can’t wait to help you on this path.