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Digital Seminar

Helping Clients Manage Unhealthy Family Relationships: A Drama-Free Approach


Faculty:
Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW
Duration:
1 Hour 56 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Mar 18, 2023
Product Code:
NOS096302
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

When is a client’s family member too toxic to keep? When is it worth it to heal a longstanding family rift? For many of our clients, their families are a source of ongoing pain, hurt, and conflict. It’s not always easy to maintain healthy, positive connections with family members who have different ideas about loyalty, love, connection, what’s appropriate to share, and how much influence they believe they should have over a family member’s personal choices. For therapists, it can be hard to know what to do when clients struggle with intense ambivalence about family members. In this session, you’ll learn:

  • How to help clients resolve ambivalence about difficult and unhealthy family relationships and know when to stay and when to go
  • How to know when an apparently abusive relationship can be salvaged through healthy communication and boundary setting
  • Clear ways for identifying dysfunctional family patterns and choosing the best path to break painful cycles and move forward

CPD

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.



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 program is worth 2.0 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



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Nedra Glover Tawwab is a New York Times bestselling author, licensed therapist, and sought-after relationship expert. She has practiced relationship therapy for 14 years and is the founder and owner of the group therapy practice, Kaleidoscope Counseling. Every day she helps people create healthy relationships by teaching them how to implement boundaries. Her philosophy is that a lack of boundaries and assertiveness underlie most relationship issues, and her gift is helping people create healthy relationships with themselves and others.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Nedra Glover Tawwab maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Nedra Glover Tawwab has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Objectives

  1. Identify the most common presenting problem of clients with dysfunctional family issues.
  2. Help clients understand that they can't change other people and refocus instead on developing the skills most likely to improve their relationships.
  3. Teach them how to manage difficult relationships by practicing different techniques—such as respectful assertiveness—that can alter negative relationship dynamics.
  4. Reduce the discouragement and fatigue clients often experience as they work through dysfunctional family dynamics by helping them set boundaries and prioritize self-care.

Outline

  • The mental and physical implications of troubled relationships
  • How to sit with clients who have difficult, unhealthy, or abusive family relationships
  • Providing a historical context for relationship issues
  • How to allow clients to make their own choices based on what they feel comfortable doing
  • Helping clients learn research-based relationship skills and offer them space to discuss what the tools look like in practice (in between sessions)

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Physicians
  • Physician Assistants
  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners 
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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