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Digital Seminar

Harnessing the Polyvagal System to Help Clients with Anxiety, Depression, and Anger


Faculty:
Dafna Lender, LCSW |  Jon Baylin, Ph.D
Duration:
5 Hours 23 Minutes
Copyright:
Mar 22, 2018
Product Code:
NOS095932
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

We all know therapists who seem magically able to establish a powerful sense of trust and connection with even the most distrusting clients. In this workshop, we’ll take a close look at the power of the polyvagal system and the way certain vocalizations, facial expressions, and gestures elicit more open and collaborative communication. 

*Please note this is the same content as Becoming a More Magical Therapist: Harnessing Your Social Engagement System at the 2018 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium, you cannot receive self-study credit for this program if you have already attended the live activity.

CPD


CPD
- 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 online program is worth 5.5 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.

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Faculty

Dafna Lender, LCSW's Profile

Dafna Lender, LCSW Related seminars and products

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Dafna Lender, LCSW, is an international trainer and supervisor for practitioners who work with children and families. She is a certified trainer and supervisor/consultant in both Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and an EMDR therapist. Dafna’s expertise is drawn from 25 years of working with families with attachment in many settings: at-risk after school programs, therapeutic foster care, in-home crisis stabilization, residential care and private practice. Dafna’s style, whether as a therapist or teacher, is combining the light-hearted with the profound by bringing a playful, intense and passionate presence to every encounter. Dafna is the author of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy (2023) and co-author of Theraplay® - The Practitioner’s Guide (2020).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dafna Lender maintains a private practice. She is a published author and receives royalties. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dafna Lender is an author for Psychotherapy Networker.


Jon Baylin, Ph.D Related seminars and products


Jonathan Baylin, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist with 30 years of experience, offers the workshop "Putting the Brain in Therapy." He's coauthoring a book with Daniel Hughes on the parenting brain and treatment for parents experiencing blocked care.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jon Baylin receives royalties as an author for Norton Press.
Non-financial: Jon Baylin has no relevant non-financial relationship.


Outline

The Social Engagement System-What is it?
  • Underlying biology
  • Effect on fight/flight/freeze reaction
  • How interacting with others can help
The Social Engagement System-How to use it
  • Voice Prosidy
  • Resonance
  • Facial expressions
  • Eye contact
  • Touch
Play as a neural exercise for harnessing the SES to create safety and connection
  • The concept of interstate travel
  • Practicing various games for calming, regulating, establishing trust, maximizing eye contact, maximizing prosodic voice

Objectives

  1. Explore how to connect with defensive clients, eliciting novel responses that grab their attention, interrupt automatic defensiveness, and generate curiosity
  2. Explore how to practice exercises for helping guarded or angry clients feel more open
  3. Explore how to develop skills to create small but transformative moments in therapy
  4. Explore how to master specific behaviors that elicit trust, like a sing-songy, rhythmic voice; open, curious eyes; reassuring touch; and sounds of empathy
  5. Explore how to use games to help anxious clients more relaxed and depressed clients more energized

Target Audience

Psychologists, Physicians, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Behavioral Health Professionals

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