Getting Creative with Parts

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Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA Related seminars and products

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Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, is a recognized expert in the strengths-based, de-pathologized treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for over 40 years. She has been an adjunct faculty member at several universities, and is the founder of The Ferentz Institute, now in its seventeenth year of providing continuing education to mental health professionals and graduating several thousand clinicians from her two certificate programs in advanced trauma treatment. In 2009 she was voted the “Social Worker of the Year” by the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work. She is the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide, now in its second edition, Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing and Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons from the Therapist’s Couch.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lisa Ferentz maintains a private practice and is the founder and president of the Ferentz Institute. She receives royalties as a published author and is a consultant for Northwest Hospital. Lisa Ferentz receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lisa Ferentz is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the American Psychotherapy Association.

Objectives

1. Utilize specific expressive modalities to enhance internal safety as well as inner communication to improve client outcomes.
2. Recommend creative techniques for improving client functioning, including reducing inner criticism, fragmentation, and polarization.
3. Apply cognitive reframes and writing exercises to soften inner critics that cause clients to resist creative work in a clinical setting.
4. Articulate which somatic resourcing techniques help clients deepen the connection and communication of internal parts.
5. Analyze the efficacy of creative strategies to soothe traumatized parts and heighten internal safety in clients.
6. Demonstrate the role of internal parts as supports or barriers in treatment of client struggles in order to increase the efficacy of treatment interventions and improve client level of functioning.

Outline

• Difficulties of Expressing Traumatic Experiences
• Various Mediums of Expressive Modalities
  • Art Therapy
  • Music Therapy
  • Sand Tray
• Integration of Parts Work with Expressive Modalities

• Language of Parts
  • Ambivalence
  • Denial
  • Internal Conflict
• Buddhist Notion of Parts
  • States of Mind
  • Living Room

• Role of Parts
• Bad Parts
• Finding Parts
• Parts & Resistance
• Types of Parts
  • Exiles
  • Firefighters
  • Managers
• Role of the Inner Critic
  • Exercise: Working with the Inner Critic

• Understanding the Core Self
  • 8 C’s of Self
  • Exercise: Illustrate Core Self

• Polarization & Blending
• Mapping Parts
  • Exercise: Two-Handed Writing
• Somatic Awareness & Focusing
• Reframing the Function of Parts
  • Honouring Parts' Protective Role
• Working with Destructive Firefighters
• Safe Places for Parts
• Temporary Containment

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Behavioral Health Professionals