Come experience the power of Impact Techniques - for you and your clients. Participants will complete five imaginative and multi-sensory Impact exercises designed for personal growth. Engage your ears, eyes, body and imagination in a lively experience of how simple props, sounds and movements can be used to promote positive personal change. You also will learn how these techniques can be adapted as powerful therapeutic tools for use with your clients, to respond to a wide variety of challenges.
Like all our experience, the self-concept has a specific structure that provides stability and structure, much like the keel of a ship. Participants will learn how to determine the structure that an individual client uses, and how to change that structure in order to make their self-concept more useful and effective.
Experiential methods empower therapy. Therapist sculpting is a dramatic method used in the assessment and intervention periods of Therapy. Learn how to "map" the state of the problem and solution, and create therapy goals.
The Law and Ethics Workshop covers emerging legal and ethical issues for mental health practition- ers of all disciplines. The four-hour program addresses issues including confidentiality and privilege, note-taking, record-keeping, coping with subpoenas, the impact of professional society ethical codes on regulation of mental health practice, liability exposure with suicidal patients, and recent develop- ments in “Tarasoff situations.”
This program focuses more closely on the needs of clinicians who fall into particularly high risk groups. Topics include confidentiality and privilege for children, coping with high-conflict divorce/custody families, the regressive impact of the regulatory environment on family therapy in particular, supervision/consultation issues that arise for professionals whose agency positions may include functions that conflict with ethical codes.
Feel uncomfortable about marketing your private practice? Or maybe you tried marketing with disappointing results. You are not alone. Most therapists weren't taught in graduate school how to build and market a financially rewarding private practice. This presentation offers practical, step-by-step instructions for building an effective, ethical and low-cost marketing plan to attract self-paying clients and addresses specific methods of increasing your marketing confidence.
The daunting task of leading clients from a disempowering sense of external control to an actualizing sense of inner control becomes doable by helping them reframe their behavior from actions to language, i.e. seeing actions as an attempt to send a message or a signal to the world around them. This practical idea will be illustrated in role-play demonstrations of the WDEP system: Wants (or behavior as language), (self) Evaluation, and (action) Planning.
Participants will learn brief Ericksonian solutions to problems commonly experienced by clinicians to rapidly heal themselves and their clinician/clients. Problems that clinicians commonly face include emotional problems ABOUT their client's emotional and behavioral problems, procrastination concerning the tremendous amount of paperwork with which clinicians are often burdened, the absence of observable progress with a client, the uncertainty that exists in the healthcare environment and a plethora of other potential barriers.