BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:31c6b86d6bbceafc9f538e35d61cf589184 CATEGORIES:CE Events: Adult Individuals SUMMARY:Transforming Resistance: Working with the Challenges of Defense & Anxiety DESCRIPTION:
Ironically, many clients interfere with the very progress the y seek either through their own resistance to the psychotherapy process or because their anxiety is too high and there is too much dysregulation to us e the process effectively. Not infrequently, they terminate prematurely bef ore reaching their goals. This results in tragic consequences for the clien t, as well as frustration and a sense of failure for the therapist. While c lients enter treatment with conscious motivation, resistance is unconscious and, therefore, difficult to address without a coherent system. Therapists typically interpret resistance in a personal way becoming confused, frustr ated, and hopeless, with a tendency to hold the client responsible and labe l him/her as "unmotivated or resistant". Participants will learn to move be yond resistance and simple symptom management into deep, transformational p rocesses that releases resources of health and resilience. Learn to acceler ate treatment using innovative techniques that implore clients to abandon c hronic coping patterns that were once necessary, but have long outlived the ir usefulness and are now causing untoward suffering. Therapists offer the promise of help often based on the presumption that the client will arrive with sufficient initial motivation, openness and willingness to face painfu l realities. Frequently this is not the case. Clinicians are rarely adequat ely prepared to address resistance directly and therapeutically, making it difficult to help more challenging clients. Defenses can be seen as "a prob lem,” rather than an inevitable part of the process; defense restructuring can mistakenly be understood as an adversarial task, that we then avoid, ra ther than a compassionate and collaborative venture. Therapists of all orie ntations and levels of experience will gain a clear understanding of the na ture and function of defenses, and ways to transform them therapeutically s o clients can align with the healthy, buried and previously inaccessible in ternal resources, as well as effective ways to regulate anxiety when it is too high. The principles taught can be readily integrated with your existin g orientation and skill set. By adopting an active, focused, precise, exper iential, attachment-based and emotionally engaged stance, therapists can cr eate the safety and attunement necessary for patients to risk abandoning th eir resistance and shift to healthier functioning. The ultimate goal is to accelerate the healing process for clients, but also to help clinicians pra ctice in a way that substantially reduces counter transference, is deeply r ewarding, effective, and authentic, fully compatible with your personal and professional history.
Hosted by R. Cassidy Seminars in Le xington, MA, providing 12 CEs. For more info, visit: https://aedpinstitute.org/live -events-2/.
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