Level 2 Interpersonal Functions Therapy

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As a relationship modality, IFT aims to achieve several goals. These include disarming conflicting spoken communication, identifying discourse functions, enhancing intimacy, respect, and affection, eliminating obstacles that lead to stagnation, and fostering a greater sense of empathy and understanding within the relationship's framework.

Interpersonal Functions Therapy Level 2

The Rules of Engagement for Assessment, Intervention, and Co-Morbidities

Training Framework

All online coursework within all levels of training can be completed at your own pace*. The online coursework is available for 12 months from the moment you sign up and any face to face components can be booked in by yourself at an appropriate time that suits.

*Online coursework needs to be completed prior to booking the practicum component.

Interpersonal Function Therapy Level 2

After you’ve been introduced to the fundamentals of Interpersonal Functions Therapy presented in Level 1 Training, the Level 2 Training will expand your assessment strategies and intervention techniques. This is the next step toward certification and designation as a Interpersonal Functions Therapy.

At the completion of Level 2 Training, you should have the clinical familiarity, knowledge, and resources to integrate Interpersonal Functions Therapy assessments and interventions into your clinical work.

The training is available online and can be accessed through virtual and in-person training events. These events are scheduled by Certified Inter-personal Therapists, Inter-personal Trainers, and IFT Workshop Presenters. Whether synchronous or in-person, please refer to the registration pages for specific details about each event.

Level 2 also contains of a small amount of Online self motivated learning. Your Level 2 Certification is complete after your practicum workshop, and the completion of the online coursework.

Training Description

This workshop provides a wealth of information about relationship theory, observation, couple dynamics, relationship assessment, treatment planning, when and how to use interventions, and working with co-morbidities.

Live workshop participants will practice using the interventions in role play sessions to help gain confidence using them with couples.

This training dives deep into the Interpersonal Functions Therapy approach for treating complicated cases involving co-morbidities, including affairs, PTSD, addiction, and domestic violence.

What will I learn in Level 2?

Building on what you learned in the Level 1 Training, you will review how to assess a couple’s Function Profile, Love Profile, and Cornerstone Profile. You will be provided with a toolkit of interventions that couples can use as antidotes to Detain Function and soothe physiological flooding. You will apply six modes of changing the Attack/Defend System in a couple’s interactions, and learn how to assist couples in establishing dialogue about their circling conflicts.

You will learn how to select and implement interventions to help couples deepen their Interpersonal Connection with Rituals of Connection, select and implement interventions to help couples create a shared system of values and meaning, and identify and implement five different co-morbidities common to couples using IFT assessments and interventions.

Who is the training for?

This training is for mental health providers, allied professionals, Counsellors coaches, students and interns, clinic staff, professors/teachers of couples therapy, researchers in the social sciences, and employee helping professionals. Completion of Level 1 is required.

Whats included in the Price?

Included in the registration price is a clinical training manual, which contains the core Interpersonal Functions Therapy assessments and interventions. You will be awarded a Certificate of Completion with an assessment score of 80% or better from The Renner Institute.

500+ page digital Level 2 Clinical Training Manual
Interpersonal Functions Therapy Level 2 Training Certificate of Completion
Eligibility to continue to Level 3 Training

Training Objectives

At the completion of this training, you will be able to:

Describe the three qualities every therapist needs.
Explain the basics of observation including why it’s important to recognise Emotions on the Human Face, Tension in the Voice, the Importance of Words and the use of the SPAFF coding system.
Describe the seven levels of The Rules of Engagement.
Describe how to recognise Detain Functions.
Explain and demonstrate how to conduct an Oral History Interview.
Assess a couple’s “Function Profile” “Love Profile” and “Cornerstone Profile”.
Explain and demonstrate how to use the 3 profiles to choose appropriate interventions for the couple.
Describe the use of the core assessments with couples, including the Rules of Engagement Questionnaires, Roe 10 Areas Checklist, and Supplemental Assessments.
Formulate a treatment plan and present it to the couple including using The Rules of Engagement model.
Develop interventions that couples can use as antidotes to the “Detain Functions.”
Help couples to physiologically soothe when flooded.
Select and implement interventions to help deal with conflict.
Apply different modes of changing the “Attack/Defend System” in a couple’s interaction.
Assist couples to establish dialogue about their circling conflicts.
Select and implement interventions to help couples deepen their “Connection Function” with Rituals of Connection.
Select and implement interventions to help couples create a shared system of values and meaning.
Use and describe the Stress-Reducing Conversation to minimise relapse.
Identify and formulate a plan for different co-morbidities common to couples using IFT Assessment and Intervention.
Describe how to apply IFT to a couple who has experienced an affair.
Describe when it is appropriate and inappropriate to use Interpersonal Functions Therapy with a couple dealing with substance abuse.
Describe the differences between situational and characterological domestic violence and when it is appropriate and inappropriate to use Interpersonal Functions Therapy with a couple dealing with domestic violence.