Welcome to Café CAMFT
Beginning in January 2012, Café CAMFT will meet on the 2nd Friday of each month, January through October. There is no scheduled Café during November and December, as before. We continue to hold Café CAMFT from 10 am – 12 noon at The Well Being Center at 5905 Soquel Drive, Suite 150, Soquel CA. See driving directions and map below.
Come join us for:
- A peaceful creek-side setting
- Coffee, tea and a morning snack
- 1 CEU for attending the presentations
- Consulting with the presenters, networking, and socializing with each other
Presentations will begin between 10:15 and 10:30 and will typically last one hour. More time is available for desired group Q & A or specific consulting questions. Remaining time is available for networking opportunities or help with how to network more effectively. We are offering 1 CEU each for the monthly presentations. SC-CAMFT members are invited to stay after and attend the monthly SC-CAMFT Board of Directors Meeting from 12:15-2:15.
To help the Café with these welcomed changes for our community members, we will be charging a small fee for attendance and for the CEU certificate:
| SC-CAMFT Chapter Members: | $5.00 |
| Non-Chapter Members: | $10.00 (a good reason to become a member!) |
| SC-CAMFT Board Members: | Free (a good reason to join the Board!) |
| Presenters and Café Volunteers (2-3 people) attend for free | |
There is an additional $5.00 fee for any attendees (including board members and volunteers) wanting the one-hour CEU Completion Certificate. Presenters receive their certificate for free. Students and interns can receive a Training Completion Certificate for free. We need 2 volunteers to help us set up the room, sign members in for CEU purposes and help put chairs away. We also need another volunteer to write up the valued presentation review for the newsletter (also a great way to get your own name in front of our members).
Next Café CAMFT presentation:
February 10, 2012
Perfect FIT - Achieving Clinical Excellence and Improvement of the Professional
through "Feedback Informed Treatment" (FIT)
Presented by Jim Walt, MA, MFT
The field of psychotherapy has historically lacked a way to meaningfully and accurately assess clinical outcomes and specific effectiveness. This has created a panoply of negative consequences for the profession and those who use our services. Some consequences are - pervasive consumer doubts as to whether what we offer really works, competing professional theory and license "tribalism," lack of political and market influence, and significantly less income for practitioners in comparison to other professions of similar educational requirements. FIT was designed to substantially change the way clinicians are trained and equipped to significantly improve clinical outcomes and professional excellence. Through a simple client feedback system, along with a clear process for directing purposeful professional skills development, clinicians can markedly improve clinical outcomes and skills. Because FIT is transtheoretical it can help begin an overall professional discourse focusing on client welfare and outcomes rather than assumptions of theoretical or license superiority. This will then allow for greater public awareness of the real usefulness and utility of psychotherapy and the subsequent improvement of the profession's identity and economic future.
Jim Walt, MA, MFT since 1982. Jim was President of SC-CAMFT in the late 1980's, and President of CAMFT in 1993-1994. Jim retired as a full Professor from John F. Kennedy University in 2007, having taught there since 1990. Using on-site training and web-conferencing technologies, Jim continues to train and supervise, specializing in Feedback Informed Treatment, Professional Outcomes and Accountabilities, Ethics and the Law, and Brief Therapies. He is a Certified Trainer and Consultant with the International Center for Clinical Excellence. Jim highlights current research and methods that enable private practice and agency setting practitioners to improve their effectiveness while also reducing professional burnout.
Location:
The Well-Being Center
5905 Soquel Ave, Ste 100
Soquel, CA 95073
Directions to Café CAMFT:
If you are traveling south from San Jose/Santa Cruz on Highway 1:
Take the Park Avenue exit.
Turn Left at the stoplight at the end of the off-ramp.
Continue to the 3rd stoplight - Soquel Drive.
Turn left onto Soquel Drive.
Pass the gas station entrance and immediately turn right at 5905 Soquel Drive.
Continue through the parking lot to Suite 100 (at the left end as you face the building).
If you are traveling north from Aptos/Watsonville on Highway 1:
Take the Park Avenue exit.
Turn Right at the stoplight at the end of the off-ramp.
Continue to the 2nd stoplight - Soquel Drive.
Turn left onto Soquel Drive.
Pass the gas station entrance and immediately turn right at 5905 Soquel Drive.
Continue through the parking lot to Suite 100 (at the left end as you face the building).
For more information about presenting or volunteering at Café CAMFT, please email cafécamft