Your Benefits

Your Benefits

New skills:

  • Perceiving discrepant behaviour
  • Seeing commonly overlooked clues to trouble
  • Identifying false-positive affect
  • Uncovering hidden problems in their early stages
  • Differentiating symptoms and self-protective strategies: specifying how symptoms function
  • Functional formulation: moving beyond diagnoses to understanding behaviour
  • Treatment planning: choosing treatment strategies to
    • increase efficiency
    • lower cost
    • reduce risk of iatrogenic harm

Take-away tools:

  • Level of Family Functioning Scale
  • Gradient of Intervention Scale
  • Downloadable materials (www.patcrittenden.com)
  • Presentation slides