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- [ABFT Special Topics Series: Integrating ABFT & Schema Therapy](https://courses.abftinternational.com/index.php/abft-schema-therapy/): Deepening the Attachment Narrative: Integrating Attachment-Based Family Therapy and Schema Therapy May 12, 2026 2pm-3:30pm Eastern Time Speaker:Paul DelGrosso, LICSW LCSW-C *Option to receive CEs from APA ($30 CE fee) Deepening the Attachment Narrative: Integrating Attachment-Based Family Therapy and Schema Therapy $35.00 Add to cart APA CEUs – Special Topics $30.00 Add to cart Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) helps youth and caregivers repair ruptured relationships by addressing intrapsychic processes (Tasks 2 and 3) to prepare family members for new, more productive interpersonal conversations (Tasks 4 and 5). These conversations not only help family members work through relational trauma, but also […]
- [ABFT Special Topics Series](https://courses.abftinternational.com/index.php/abft-special-topics-series-2/): Overview The Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) Special Topic Webinar Series offers an in-depth exploration of various applications of ABFT in diverse contexts. These webinars are designed for therapists, clinicians, and mental health professionals seeking specialized knowledge in integrating ABFT into their practice across different populations and settings. Each session focuses on specific challenges and populations, presenting evidence-based strategies and clinical insights to address unique family dynamics and attachment issues. Upcoming Live Webinars: To be announced. We offer 90-minute live webinars on special topics a few times a year. Webinar recordings will be available for purchase after the live session. Check […]
- [Redefining Trauma Treatment](https://courses.abftinternational.com/index.php/redefining-trauma-treatment/): ABFT Special Topics Series Redefining Trauma Treatment: Integrating EMDR Therapy and Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) Speakers:Meredith Dellorco, LCSW & Olivia Lynch, MS, LPC Webinar Recording – Redefining Trauma Treatment: Integrating EMDR and ABFT $30.00 Add to cart 90-min webinar recorded on September 16, 2025 as part of ABFT Special Topics Series Clinicians working with adolescents and young adults often face significant challenges when treating complex cases involving co-occurring conditions and trauma histories. Integrating Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can help address these challenges effectively. This webinar starts by exploring how emotional dysregulation and behavioral […]
- [Providing Attachment-Based Care](https://courses.abftinternational.com/index.php/providing-attachment-based-care/): ABFT Special Topics Series Providing Attachment-Based Care in Inpatient and Residential Programs: Teamwork is Key! Speakers:Ilse Devacht, Suzanne Levy, PhD, & Brianna Brennan, LMFT   Webinar Recording: Providing Attachment-Based Care is Truly About Teamwork $30.00 Add to cart 90-min webinar recorded on June 3, 2025 as part of ABFT Special Topics Series. ATTACHMENT BASED CARE FOR TEAMS (or ABC4T) is an innovative milieu team training program, designed to engage all team members in providing attachment-based care for troubled young people and their families. This comprehensive program includes a pre-training situation and needs analysis, three days of immersive whole-team training and […]
- [What is ABFT 2.0](https://courses.abftinternational.com/index.php/what-is-abft-2-0/): What is ABFT? 5 Treatment Tasks Evidence-Based Treatment Attachment Theory Flexible and Structured Attachment-based family therapy (ABFT) is a manualized, empirically supported family therapy model specifically designed to target family and individual processes associated with adolescent suicide and depression. ABFT emerges from interpersonal theories that suggest adolescent and young adult internalizing disorders (e.g., depression, suicide, trauma, anxiety) can be precipitated, exacerbated or buffered against by the quality of interpersonal relationships in families. It has also been used where family conflict is a contributor to the presenting problem. It is a trust-based, emotion-focused psychotherapy model that aims to repair interpersonal ruptures […]
- [ABFT Therapy Demonstration Videos](https://courses.abftinternational.com/index.php/abft-therapy-demonstration-videos/): We understand that seeing therapy in action is one of the most effective ways to learn and reinforce therapeutic skills. In this new program, ABFT treatment developers, Drs. Guy Diamond and Suzanne Levy demonstrate how to use Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) to motivate families to work towards repairing their relationships. The program covers core ABFT elements such as emotional deepening, process-oriented interventions, enactments, intentionality, and rolling with resistance.  These elements are illustrated to help you integrate them into your own practice.  Additionally, the videos showcase fundamental family therapy skills. Previously, these videos were only accessible through the Fundamentals of ABFT […]
- [ABFT Special Topics Series](https://courses.abftinternational.com/index.php/abft-for-victims-of-domestic-violence/): ABFT for Victims of Domestic Violence Speaker:Brianna Brennan, LMFT Webinar Recording: ABFT for Victims of Domestic Violence $30.00 Add to cart 90-min webinar recorded on Oct 1, 2024 as part of ABFT Special Topics Series. Domestic violence is a major problem worldwide. 1 in 15 American children are exposed to intimate partner violence each year, and 90% of these children are eyewitnesses to this violence. There is little research regarding how parents can support their children who have been exposed to domestic violence. Additionally, there is a noticeable gap in domestic violence services for children after domestic violence. Brianna Brennan, […]
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- [ABFT Supervision](https://courses.abftinternational.com/index.php/abft-supervision/): General Information ABFT International offers individual and group case consultation meetings for therapists looking to implement ABFT more effectively with clients. During supervision, therapists learn how to conceptualize from an ABFT framework so that they can utilize ABFT with a variety of different clients, presenting problems, and difficult situations. Through presenting 5-10 minute videos of sessions, therapists receive detailed feedback on the moment-by-moment decisions that occur in therapy. Additionally, the brief videos help therapists hone their ABFT specific skills. ABFT Supervisors also help therapists identify and work through person-of-the-therapist issues that arise when doing this interpersonal, emotionally deep work. ABFT International is […]
- [Family-Based Youth Suicide Prevention Workshop](https://courses.abftinternational.com/index.php/family-based-youth-suicide-prevention-workshop/): TRAINING DATES: September 17-18, 2026 (2-half days) TIME: 10:30am-2:15pm Eastern Time How do we respond when a teenager discloses suicidal thoughts in therapy, whether expected or out of the blue? When is it time to involve caregivers, and how do we do so in a way that supports both the adolescent and the family system? Should we hospitalize, or can we safely support them at home? These are some of the most difficult, and most critical, decisions clinicians face. This two-part, interactive webinar series offers practical, evidence-based tools to help you navigate these moments with confidence, clarity, and compassion. In […]
- [Advancing Family Therapy Education: ABFT Curriculum for Universities](https://courses.abftinternational.com/index.php/online-university-course/): General Information for Professors ABFT International offers a fully supported university curriculum for a professor to teach a 9 to 11-hour module of ABFT as part of a university course or as an extracurricular program. It is designed to be used in the following ways: embedded in a semester course, outside of the curriculum as a special training, summer intensive, or other short programming material. A professor and at least 7 students must register for the program. We supply all the materials listed below: Streaming access to 6 lectures by Dr. Guy Diamond & Dr. Suzanne Levy  Streaming access to […]
- [Fundamentals of ABFT Online Self-Paced Course](https://courses.abftinternational.com/index.php/fundamentals-of-abft-online-self-paced-course/): Learn directly from the ABFT treatment developers, Dr. Guy Diamond & Dr. Suzanne Levy, with on-demand videos! This self-paced online course is equivalent to the Part 1 Intro Workshop. Course Overview Course contains 6 interactive pre-recorded lectures where ABFT treatment developers, Dr. Guy Diamond and Dr. Suzanne Levy, provide an overview of the model including theoretical foundation and clinical strategies of ABFT. Faculty review how attachment theory, emotional regulation and trauma resolution inform the delivery of this experiential treatment approach. They also review the goals and structure of the five treatment tasks that provide a road map for delivering this […]
- [ABFT Advanced Level 2 Workshop (Spring 2027)](https://courses.abftinternational.com/index.php/abft-advanced-workshop/): TRAINING DATES: February 24-25, March 4-5, 11-12, 2027 TIME: 10:30am-2:15pm Eastern Time The ABFT Advanced Workshop is appropriate for those who have previously attended the full ABFT Introductory Workshop. The Advanced Workshop will further develop the skills of therapists who have started using ABFT with their clients. The advanced training is a follow-up, intensive, workshop with some didactic presentations, exercises, therapy demonstration tapes, discussion, and role-play. Participants will learn about the use of emotion-focused skills in the context of ABFT as well as discuss and explore person of the therapist issues impacting one’s work. Participants will have the opportunity to […]
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- [ABFT Special Topics Series](https://courses.abftinternational.com/index.php/abft-special-topics-series/): ABFT for Victims of Domestic Violence October 1, 20242pm-3:30pm Eastern Time Speaker:Brianna Brennan, LMFT *Option to receive CEs from APA/ASWB ($40 CE fee) ABFT for Victims of Domestic Violence $30.00 Add to cart APA CEUs $40.00 Add to cart ASWB CEUs $40.00 Add to cart Domestic violence is a major problem worldwide. 1 in 15 American children are exposed to intimate partner violence each year, and 90% of these children are eyewitnesses to this violence. There is little research regarding how parents can support their children who have been exposed to domestic violence. Additionally, there is a noticeable gap in […]
- [Attachment-Based Family Therapy Introductory Workshop Series (Spring 2026)](https://courses.abftinternational.com/index.php/abft-introductory-workshop/): TRAINING DATES: Part One: April 16-17, 2026 (2-half days) Part Two: April 23-24, 30-May 1, 2026 (4 half-days)  CHOOSE ONE TRACK: Track 1: 9am-12:45pm Eastern Time***  orTrack 2: 1pm-4:45pm Eastern Time  ***Spots remain in Track 2 for Part One Only. Part Two of BOTH Tracks are currently FULL and now CLOSED to new registrations.  If you would like to be put on the wait-list for Part One-Track 1 or Part Two – Track 1 or 2,  please email info@abftinternational.com. Part One – Attachment-Based Family Therapy Introductory Workshop Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) is an evidence‑based, manualized treatment model designed to address adolescent depression […]
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