BT08 Short Course 31 - Snoozing Soundly While Disa(la)rming Depression - Deborah Beckman, MS
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Depression | Brief Therapy | Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques | Insomnia
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Deborah Beckman
- Duration:
- 1:24:44
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 11, 2008
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
Description: Many depressed clients know what they “should” do but still cannot sleep. This session looks at sleep as a therapeutic entry point rather than a symptom to manage, using Ericksonian approaches that work indirectly and with less effort. Demonstrations and case material illustrate how humor, imagery, and trance can restore rest and soften depressive inertia.
Syllabus Description: Disturbed sleep painfully contributes to depression. Paradoxically, client's symptoms become pathways that disarms suffering, yielding to the solace of sound sleep. Clients then pace healing to the rhythms of restorative sleep, without excess alarm. Ericksonian-based trance language directly addressing disturbed sleep first, and indirectly addressing depression will be offered.
Educational Objectives:
- To identify clients' language to directly address and reframe disturbed sleep.
- Given a client, employ sleep restructuring techniques through individualized metaphors to indirectly address the presenting symptoms of depression.
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
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