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Treating Adult Clients of Emotionally Immature Parents: How Your Clients Can Reclaim Their Lives from the Toxic Legacy of Controlling, Rejecting or Self-Involved Parents

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Objectives

  1. Distinguish between psychopathology and emotional immaturity, and establish how a disease concept model can impede therapeutic progress.
  2. Demonstrate practical communication skills that clients can use to protect themselves and redirect interactions with emotionally immature people.
  3. Utilize cognitive and emotional techniques to teach clients how they can set boundaries without feeling guilty.
  4. Employ interventions that help clients regain self-trust and the ability to identify emotionally immature control maneuvers.
  5. Formulate a treatment strategy that teaches clients how to evade attempts to undermine their mental freedom, inner-world connection, sense of goodness, and ability to reach out to others.
  6. Apply effective therapy approaches to release clients from emotional coercion and self-doubt in emotionally immature relationships.

Copyright : 10/11/2020

Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuse: The Clinicians' Guide to the New Field of Traumatic Pathological Love Relationships

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Objectives

  1. Justify why differentiating Pathological Love Relationships and narcissistic abuse from other domestic violence, addictive, co-dependent, or dysfunctional relationships is important to effective trauma treatment.
  2. Analyze the unique relational dynamics generated from the pathology and the traumatic impact to intimate partners
  3. Investigate the five stages of a Pathological Love Relationship (narcissistic abuse).
  4. Apply the DSM5 Alternative Model personality disorder ‘four impairments’ to predict relational deficits in narcissistic abuse.
  5. Investigate co-morbid and intensification factors related to behaviour of the narcissistic abuser.
  6. Assess the role of chronic and pervasive Cognitive Dissonance in survivor symptomology.

Copyright : 15/01/2021

Demystifying Personality Disorders: Clinical Skills for Working with Drama and Manipulation

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Objectives

  1. Differentiate among the various clinical personality disorder DSM categories.
  2. Evaluate how transference and countertransference occurs in therapy sessions with personality disorder clients.
  3. Clinically assess for the nature of “drama” that personality disorder diagnosed clients create.
  4. Determine how this challenging client population can exploit the vulnerabilities of others.
  5. Demonstrate two key strategies of “drama non-participation” that clinicians can teach their clients who are impacted by the personality disorder diagnosed partner/family member.
  6. Demonstrate how re-defining the therapeutic approach can improve treatment outcomes.

Copyright : 24/02/2021

BONUS: Emotional Abusive Behaviors and A Closer Look at Gaslighting: Clinical Tools to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Personal Power

“It’s my own fault isn’t it…”

The trauma caused by the verbal and emotional abuse of Gaslighting can and leave clients doubting their self-worth, feeling isolated and questioning their sense of reality. They can lose hope as their abuser wears them down and takes control.

But Gaslighting is often subtle. It can be hard to spot, even for therapists. Without recognizing the signs and knowing how to work with the resulting trauma in therapy, your clients could continue to suffer the effects of ongoing abuse and manipulation.

This 3-hour program is a must-have for all clinicians so you can recognize the signs of this form of emotional abuse and effectively support your clients in building resiliency, reducing their vulnerability to ongoing abuse, and developing healthier relationships as they reclaim their lives.

Watch Gaslighting expert and best-selling author Amy Marlow-MacCoy, LPC, as she gives you the skills and tools you need to help your clients:

  • Recognize Gaslighting in romantic, friendship and family relationships
  • Build resilience to the effects of gaslighting and regain their personal power
  • Cope with guilt, anxiety, and shame over setting boundaries
  • Work through their traumas with techniques from IFS, DBT, narrative therapy, somatic experiencing and other approaches

Make sure you’re prepared to help clients facing the devastating impacts of this growing form of psychological abuse.

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Objectives

  1. Analyze how gaslighting in the context of romantic relationships, friendships, and family relationships can lead to long term effects like trauma, anxiety and depression.
  2. Employ in-session approaches to help clients become aware of gaslighting behaviour in their lives and recognize the consequences.
  3. Differentiate gaslighting from other forms of emotional abuse to improve your ability to recognize the subtle signs that clients may be victims.
  4. Employ body-based approaches to help clients who have experienced gaslighting validate their experience and rebuild trust in themselves.
  5. Utilize techniques from a variety of therapeutic approaches to unravel problematic beliefs that can prevent victims of gaslighting from making therapeutic progress.

Copyright : 01/02/2021