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Facing a Pandemic with Radical Compassion
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- Apply core principles of mindfulness to the new challenges posed by the Corona virus epidemic
- Utilize the RAIN technique to effectively manage fear and anxiety
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19/03/2020
Has Neuroscience Lived up to its Promise?
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- Evaluate what research has taught us about the most important clinical applications of neurobiological principles.
- Assess how a better understanding of the relationship between mind and brain can change your interventions with clients.
- Determine how new research may shape the future direction of psychotherapy and inform clinical treatment.
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19/03/2020
The Body as Healer: Working from the Bottom Up
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- Integrate the clients’ awareness of their internal experience and your observations of their nonverbal behaviours, including involuntary gestures, posture changes, and external indications of shifts in their autonomic nervous system.
- Develop your capacity to read your own somatic cues as a means of resonating and connecting with the client’s experience.
- Assess the often-fleeting physical cues of their internal states that indicate crucial resources clients can access as they move toward healing.
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19/03/2020
Couples in Quarantine: Staying Together Apart
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- Develop an understanding of Systemic Family Therapy and Contextual Couples Therapy and how they apply to the current climate of world and couples during these times.
- Develop an understanding of families in crisis during a disaster and the impacts (negative and positive) this can have on relationships.
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20/03/2020
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals
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- Determine the key elements of the attachment perspective on personality and its significance for clinical intervention.
- Apply the process of change and the elements of the EFT Tango in sessions.
- Apply the micro-interventions used by the EFT therapist to gradually move clients into transformative moments.
- Assess the applicability of EFIT for different clients with different symptomatology.
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20/03/2020
Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Sensorimotor Approach to Change
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- Choose how educate clients about depression as a somatic state, not just a psychological state.
- Employ cognitive schemas that reinforce depressive states to improve client outcomes.
- Use a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy approach to understanding depression in sessions.
- Use three body-centered interventions that increase energy and focus in depressed clients.
- Evaluate Sensorimotor interventions that transform depressive beliefs.
- Determine the use of the social engagement system and its role in evoking an internal sense of safety as it relates to treatment.
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20/03/2020
Compassionate Inquiry
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- Demonstrate how to keep clients engaged in present-moment experience using a mind-body framework.
- Explain how to help clients access emotional states through body awareness.
- Discuss how to uncover early traumatic events of childhood and unconscious feeling states.
- Explore how to cultivate deeper therapeutic presence by bringing attention to what remains unexpressed in clients’ everyday awareness.
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22/03/2019
IFS in Action: Leading Clients to Self-Leadership
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- Apply strategies used in IFS to contact the core Self.
- Specify how to shift the role of therapist from the primary attachment figure to a container who opens the way for the client’s Self to emerge.
- Use methods for transparently handling situations in which you get emotionally triggered by your client.
- Analyze how to get clients’ polarized, deeply conflicted parts to negotiate with each other.
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22/03/2019
Couples Therapy for Treating Trauma: The Gottman Method Approach
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- Determine the impact of PTSD on a couple’s relationship to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions for both the individual and couple.
- Apply simple yet effective clinical interventions in session to help clients acquire a new perspective of PTSD and a more adaptive approach to managing symptoms.
- Assess the often ignored social and interpersonal symptoms of PTSD in clients.
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25/03/2018
The Art and Science of Presence: Applications for the Consulting Room
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- Argue why integration—the process of creating differentiated linkages among different brain systems and aspects of personality functioning—is essential to the process of psychological healing
- Utilize clinical tools to enhance the integration of consciousness, including The Wheel of Awareness, a reflective exercise that opens up pathways to expanding personal identity and moving beyond the limiting sense of a skin-defined self
- Evaluate how to increase your own sense of moment-to-moment immediacy and presence in creating healing connections with your clients
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26/03/2017
Polyvagal Theory in Action
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- Employ exercises designed to engage the neural circuits of your client’s Social Engagement System to improve clinical outcomes.
- Catalogue moments of autonomic disconnection and find the right repair in sessions.
- Create an environment of autonomic safety using the “inside, outside, and between” guide.
- Use your own Social Engagement System to effectively coregulate with clients.
- Assess the impact of trauma on the autonomic nervous system.
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22/03/2019
Becoming Solution Focused in Therapy
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- Identify the differences between solution-focused and problem-focused approaches.
- Explain effective ways to use the Solution-Focused Approach to improve clinical outcomes with clients.
- Assess the research on the Solution-Focused Approach as it relates to case conceptualization.
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24/03/2019
Applying Mindfulness in Therapy with Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman
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- Articulate methods by which meditation can be integrated with psychotherapy practices to improve clinical outcomes.
- Determine the clinical implications of secondary trauma on the therapist and identify simple yet effective meditation interventions to alleviate symptoms of secondary traumas and improve the therapeutic relationship.
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24/03/2018