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It’s unfortunate, but severely mentally ill clients are the ones we frequently feel least able to help. Instead, they often find themselves marginalised within our field, medicated for chronic mental health symptoms without therapy. In this workshop, you’ll be introduced to powerful ways you can help fragile clients with serious trauma histories—or those who experience psychoses—to develop a more mature emotional infrastructure. Whether you’re an experienced practitioner or new to experiential dynamic therapies like ISTDP or AEDP, you’ll come away with new tools and interventions and a better understanding of how to help clients suffering from PTSD, personality disturbance, and severe and persistent mental illness. We’ll also touch on related issues such as splitting and projection, paranoia, hallucinations, disassociation, mind and body phenomena, suicide, therapeutic confrontation, and management of psychiatric emergencies. You’ll learn to:
Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships
All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 2 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Effective Tools for Working with Serious Mental Illness (2.9 MB) | 37 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Effective Tools for Working with Serious Mental Illness - French (2.9 MB) | 37 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Effective Tools for Working with Serious Mental Illness - Italian (2.9 MB) | 37 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Effective Tools for Working with Serious Mental Illness - German (2.9 MB) | 37 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Effective Tools for Working with Serious Mental Illness - Spanish (2.9 MB) | 37 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Steve Shapiro, PhD, is a psychologist, certified IEDTA teacher, trainer, and supervisor, and a founding member of the AEDP institute with over 20 years of clinical and teaching experience. His work as the director of an emergency psychiatric hospital for over 16 years has informed his approach to challenging patients with a history of trauma, a high degree of resistance, or excessive anxiety and dysregulation. He trains clinicians internationally.
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