Program Language: Serbian

The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM) Small Group Model for Adults is an approach designed to heal psychological trauma, relieve stress, reduce symptoms of chronic illness, and increase resilience. Working in small groups of 8–10 people, facilitators teach a variety of self-care techniques drawn from the world’s healing traditions as well as modern medicine to help participants learn to move through emotions and experience their own capacity for self-healing. Trained facilitators guide the experience, helping participants discover their own answers.

The Center for Mind–Body Medicine (CMBM) Small Group Model for Children and Adolescents is an approach for healing psychological trauma, relieving stress, reducing symptoms of chronic illness, and increasing resilience. Working in small groups of 8–10 children, facilitators teach a variety of techniques drawn from the world’s healing traditions as well as modern medicine, to help participants learn to move through emotions and experience their own capacity for self-healing. Trained facilitators guide the experience, helping participants discover their own answers.

The CMBM Small Group Model for Children and Adolescents helps young people understand how their mind and bodies operate under stress and in the aftermath of trauma. This knowledge is then used to teach self-regulation and reduce shame around negative coping adaptations. The CMBM also offers parallel group learning processes and individual coaching for parents whose children are targeted by their approach.

The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a 10- to 14-week parenting and family skills training program for high-risk and general population families. It is unique because the whole family attends and practice new relationship skills together in family groups. SFP is designed to significantly improve parenting skills and family relationships, reduce child maltreatment, children's problem behaviors, delinquency and alcohol and drug abuse; and to improve social competencies and school performance. The program is designed to work with many different ethnicities and races. In addition, it is available as a Home-use DVD for school, behavioral health, and family services to use alone or with case managers. It can also be given to families to view at home.

The Brief Strategic Family Therapy® (BSFT®) Model uses a structured family-systems approach to treat families with youth (6 to 18 years) who display or are at risk for developing problem behaviors including substance abuse, conduct problems, and delinquency. There are three intervention components:

• Therapists must establish and maintain a viable and effective therapeutic relationship with family members = Joining.
• By eliciting and observing family interactions (Enactments), therapists identify interactional patterns that are associated with problematic youth behavior = Systemic Diagnosis.
• Therapists design and execute a treatment plan. The interventions are designed to be done in the session focusing on the here and now using Highlights, Reframes, and assigning Tasks that elicit more effective and adaptive family interactions = Restructuring

BSFT® is typically delivered in 12 to 16 weekly sessions in community centers, clinics, health agencies, or homes. BSFT® therapists are required to participate in a structured program of training to achieve Competency, and then are required to remain in a course of fidelity monitoring for adherence.