Structural Family Therapy for Autism Spectrum Disorder

About This Workshop

Families raising autistic children often face complex systemic challenges — heightened anxiety, role overload, and relational disconnection — while navigating a system of care that privileges individual, symptom-focused treatment. Structural Family Therapy for Autism Spectrum Disorder (SFT for ASD) offers a paradigm shift: a systemic, family-based intervention that de-pathologizes neurodiversity and strengthens the family's capacity for flexibility, communication, and connection.

Developed by Dr. Anthony Pennant, this model integrates Structural Family Therapy with Critical Disability Justice, providing clinicians a framework to realign family structures, validate parental experiences, center autistic voices, and challenge disabling narratives. Through guided experiential learning, case application, and live discussion, participants will explore the six-step SFT for ASD process and learn how to apply it across diverse family constellations and cultural contexts.

This training invites clinicians to move beyond individual behavioral management toward relational transformation — helping families deepen connection, increase satisfaction, and thrive as…