Should They Stay or Should They Go? Working with Ambivalent Clients Experiencing Antagonistic/Narcissistic Relationships
- Speaker:
- Ramani Durvasula, PhD, LCP
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 46 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Jan 22, 2024
- Product Code:
- POS059700
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Sitting with clients who are being negatively impacted by a narcissist is hard because it can seem like leaving is the obvious solution...but not all clients are willing or able to do that.
In this must-attend session, Ramani Durvasula, PhD, LCP, highly sought-after narcissism expert, researcher, and author of Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist, will provide guidance on this ambivalence and the factors that make choice complex. She will then discuss techniques to consider in working with these clients, frame psychoeducational approaches, and highlight awareness of our presence in the client’s process as well as the errors clinicians may make while working with clients at these difficult decisional nodes.
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Handouts/Brochure
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Should They Stay or Should They Go? Working with Ambivalent Clients Experiencing Narcissistic Relationships (1.5 MB) | 44 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Should They Stay or Should They Go? Working with Ambivalent Clients Experiencing Narcissistic Relationships - French (1.5 MB) | 44 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Should They Stay or Should They Go? Working with Ambivalent Clients Experiencing Narcissistic Relationships - Italian (1.5 MB) | 44 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Should They Stay or Should They Go? Working with Ambivalent Clients Experiencing Narcissistic Relationships - German (1.5 MB) | 44 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Should They Stay or Should They Go? Working with Ambivalent Clients Experiencing Narcissistic Relationships - Spanish (1.5 MB) | 44 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Ramani Durvasula, PhD, LCP Related seminars and products
Ramani Durvasula, PhD is a psychologist in California, the founder and CEO of LUNA Education, Training and Consulting, and professor emerita of psychology at California State University Los Angeles. She is The New York Times bestselling author of It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People. She is also the author of multiple other books including ”Don’t You Know Who I Am”: How to Stay Sane in the Era of Narcissism, Entitlement and Incivility and Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist. She has lectured and trained therapists around the world on best practices on working with clients experiencing narcissistic abuse and has developed a 36 hour virtual training and certification program in conjunction with PESI to train clinicians on how to use an antagonism-informed approach with clients experiencing narcissistic relationships.
Dr. Durvasula hosts a popular YouTube channel with over 2 million subscribers, maintains a program offering support and education to thousands of survivors, and is a featured expert on the digital media platform MedCircle. She also maintains an engaged online network called the Dr. Ramani Network. She has also been widely involved in the governance of the American Psychological Association, including the APA Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology and the APA Minority Fellowship Program. Dr. Durvasula received her MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from UCLA and completed her internship and post-doctoral training at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree in psychology, with a minor in sociology in 1988 at the University of Connecticut. She resides in Los Angeles, CA.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Ramani Durvasula is the founder and CEO of LUNA Education, Training, and Consulting and has an employment relationship with the University of Johannesburg. Ramani Durvasula receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Ramani Durvasula is an associate editor for Behavioral Medicine. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science Society for Behavioral Medicine, and the International Association of Applied Psychology.
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Objectives
- Describe the architecture of the narcissistic relationship and how this may present differently depending on the nature of the relationship.
- Identify the factors that underlie client ambivalence and decisional “freeze” in narcissistic relationships.
- Apply an antagonism-informed framework for working with clients struggling with decision making and ambivalence in narcissistic and antagonistic relations hips.
Outline
Describing the fundamental structure of a narcissistic relationship
- Reviewing the classical cycle of idealization/devaluation/discard/hoover
- Review of concepts including (and how these can underlie client ambivalence)
- Cognitive dissonance
- Betrayal blindness
- Trauma bonding
- Pressure to conform
Exploring why so many clients feel ambivalent about making changes in these relationships
- A review of the fallout of narcissistic abuse/antagonistic relational stress including confusion, self-blame, helplessness, rumination, regret
- The reality of what change means for the client
- The “fear of regret” and how that plays out for the client
- Exploring what the “options” are
Helping clients navigate their ambivalence and confusion
- Utilizing antagonism-informed frameworks with clients
- Exploring the multiple truths of a particular circumstance
- Validating these experiences
Fostering clinician awareness so we do not undermine their decisional autonomy and support them in this process
- Clinician frustration as the client vacillates
- Avoiding direct advice giving and self-awareness of our “agendas” for clients
- Activation of our own experiences with these types of relationships
Target Audience
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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