Educational Materials and Activities

• Emotionally Focused Therapy Peer Consultation Form (PDF, 18KB)
  A form designed for peer consultation/supervision using emotionally focused therapy.
• Family Therapy Peer Consultant Form (PDF, 28KB)
  A form designed for peer consultation/supervision using structural family therapy.
• Couple and Family Therapy Initial Assessment Procedures (PDF, 18KB)
  Procedures for pre-treatment family assessments.

• Structural Mapping Exercise (PDF, 55KB)
  Create structural maps that reflect hypotheses about families and formulate therapeutic goals.
• Mock Family and Treatment Team Exercise (PDF, 30KB)
  A semester-long role-play activity designed to provide trainees with opportunities to work with a treatment team and practice family therapy skills with a "mock" family consisting of other trainees playing family member roles.
• Pre-session Worksheet for Structural Family Therapy (PDF, 42KB)
  This worksheet is to be completed for couples and couples therapists in training. 
• Couples therapy forms and handouts by Scott R. Woolley, PhD, with emotionally focused therapy notes.
• Family of origin activity for clinical training.
• Family Feud PowerPoint templates to use in the classroom as a game to review for tests or introduce new units.

• John Edwards' Tools and Techniques for Family Therapy (PDF, KB) instructor's manual.
• John Edwards' Tools and Techniques for Family Therapy video.

The website Mom It Forward provides free, downloadable family activities that can be used as "homework assignments" for families in treatment.

Sample Activities

• Family Mission Statement
• Child's Family Tree
• Dinner Discussion Questions
• "What I Love about You" Activity

• Systemic Family Therapy Manual from the Leeds Family Therapy and Research Centre at the University of Leeds (PDF, 462KB)
• Systemic Family Therapy Manual Therapist Adherence Protocol from the Leeds Family Therapy and Research Centre at the University of Leeds

• Systemic Therapy Map from the Centre for Clinical Psychology at the University College London

• Casado, M., Young, M.E., & Rasmus, S. (2002). Exercises in family therapy, 2nd edition. Merrill Education/Prentice Hall.