FCT Phases of Treatment
These are the 4 phases of FCT. Name them in order.
Joining, Restructuring, Valuing Change, Generalization.
This activity is completed with the caretakers allowing the clinician to assist the family with identifying patterns of strengths and challenges that have occurred during past stages of development. The caretakers identify how previous events are shaping their current reality and what parts of their history they want to keep or do differently.
What is the Family Life Cycle?
This document is presented in TEAM and assists in driving treatment with a family?
What is MIGS?
What is the prescribed dosage and intensity for an individual engaged in Family Centered Treatment?
What is multiple weekly sessions totaling a minimum of 4 hours.
This is who is served during Family Centered Treatment.
Who is the identified client and their family?
This phase of FCT prepares the family to maintain their progress independently and successfully transition out of intensive treatment.
What is Generalization?
This core skill is utilized when the FCT Practitioner has observed the family stating they want to change, but the family's current behaviors are preventing them from making the change. The family is saying on thing, but doing another.
What is Developing Discrepancies
Having your camera on, offering interventions/feedback during staffing, limiting distractions, engaging silent members, etc. are examples of?
What are team norms and expectations?
There are three of these that are considered requirements for fidelity, although, more are usually completed during the course of FCT AND these are the phases they are completed in.
What are MIGS AND Restructuring and Valuing Change?
These are the requirements to be an FCT Practitioner AND the amount of time allowed for the certification process.
Completion of Wheels of Change, 16 core skill demonstration-based checkoffs, submission of completion to the FCT Foundation. FCT Foundation requires certification to be completed within 12 months of start date in FCT Practice.
This phase of FCT focuses on strengthening the family's ability to maintain and take ownership of the changes they have made.
What is Valuing Change?
This core skill is used when the family is not able to address or effectively communicate “the elephant in the room”. This skill assists individuals have conversations that go beyond surface level to work on core, underlyingbehaviors.
What is Alter Ego?
This is who should be driving the team meeting and holding participants accountable.
Who are peers/teammates?
The number of times the Family Assessment Device (FAD) and Trauma Screener (CPM-PTS) should be completed during the course of Family Centered Treatment.
What is 3. Initial in Joining. Intermediate in Restructuring. Final at case closure.
This is the most important administrative task for an FCT Practitioner.
What is TEAM?
During this phase, the practitioner and family begin changing interactional patterns and developing new ways of responding to problems.
What is Restructuring?
This core skill is implemented when the FCT practitioner has observed the family slipping back into their old ways, after they have been able to make the changes on their own without them in the home. While addressing this observation the FCT practitioner is asking open ended questions exploring what the family is willing to do in order to commit to the changes they previously made, in addition, the FCT practitioner is questioning the family’s resistance to continue treatment.
What is Creating Ownership
The name of the line in the middle of the MIGS map.
What is the Authority Line.
Once a case has been submitted for authorization (assigned), how many days after that should a FCT Practitioner have their initial FCT session with a family?
What are 48 hours/2 days?
When should documentation for a Family Centered Session be completed?
What is during session and within 24 hours at the latest.
This is required to transition families from one phase of treatment to another.
What is completion of the transitional indicators that reflect demonstration of completion of goals and internalization of the treatment process dependent on each phase?
This fidelity document should be completed with all members in a family and is the first opportunity a FCT Practitioner has to model the FCT Guarantees and Values. They are used to assist in times of emotional dysregulation.
What are Solution Cards?
This should be integrated into case staffing (MIGS/Case Intros) and pulled from the FCT Practitioner's past experiences that influence how they show up to TEAM and in session.
What is Counselor Use of Self?
The three commitments we want to go over when processing an enactment with a family?
Content commitment (What the problem is)
Process commitment (What to do about it)
Attachment based commitment (Underlying unmet emotional needs)
This allows families served by Family Centered Treatment to see their inherent worth and value to their community and those in it by utilizing their strengths, resources and values to pay it forward.
What is the Family Giving Project?