List common behaviors that often mistakenly promote resistance.
Identify approaches to circumvent resistance.
Explain how to help clients find emotionally compelling reasons to change.
Describe the behavior and characteristics of narcissistic clients.
Recognize why it’s important to achieve leverage with such clients and how to do so in treatment.
Name techniques that are effective when working with narcissistic clients.
Summarize the challenges of working with clients who have borderline personality disorder.
Explain what Richard Schwartz means by vulnerable inner “parts.”
Describe how to contain feelings of defensiveness when working with clients who have borderline personality disorder.
Illustrate characteristics of clients who have attachment injuries and are self-loathing.
Define “disowned selves” and understand how to help clients embrace these parts.
Discuss how the therapeutic relationship can effectively heal attachment wounds.
Explain how to recognize when a client isn’t making any progress in therapy.
Discuss ways to help clients get back on a treatment plan or stop making self-destructive choices.
Recognize how to discuss clients’ unhelpful behavior in session without sounding like a disappointed parent and further injuring them.
List the six personal characteristics that enable therapists to best customize treatment.
Explain how to effectively match therapeutic techniques to clients’ needs.
Discuss the significance of customizing treatment to individual clients.
Copyright :07/03/2013
The Challenge of Treating Complex PTSD: What to do When Things Get Messy and Uncomfortable
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Objectives
Describe how to assess the client’s motivation, stage of change, and preferred mode of learning to improve treatment outcomes.
Articulate the importance of therapist transparency to improve client engagement
Articulate strategies to help empower clients in session
Explore intra-family violence and its clinical implications
Copyright :18/03/2016
Mastering the Anxiety Game: Teaching Clients to Welcome Their Fears
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Objectives
Explain how to rapidly engage anxious clients in the therapeutic alliance and change their mindset toward their fears.
Identify why the first step to changing an overwhelming response to anxiety is accepting the perceived threat as something the client can approach and change.
Implement strategies to help clients transform their fear into a challenge to be met or a puzzle to be solved.
Copyright :18/03/2016
Addictive Behavior as the Problem
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Objectives
Utilize clinical strategies to alleviate symptoms of shame in clients.
Integrate Sensorimotor Psychotherapy interventions that teach clients how to regulate their nervous systems and alleviate symptoms of anxiety.
Analyze the efficacy of cognitive interventions to improve treatment outcomes.