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Techniques for Creatively and Compassionately Addressing the Impulse to Self-Harm and Relapse

Techniques for Creatively and Compassionately Addressing the Impulse to Self-Harm and Relapse

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Many clinicians still insist that clients sign and abide by a standard safety contract as a way to manage self-harm and addictive behaviors. This inevitably creates a power struggle between clients and therapists and forces clients to "white knuckle" their destructive urges without giving them alternative ways to navigate and process the deeper reasons why they turn to acts of self-destruction.

This recording will offer therapists a viable alternative that helps to de-code the deeper trauma-based communication, metabolize emotions, access clients' creativity and self-compassion, while teaching them healthier ways to self-soothe that don't lead to an endpoint of guilt or shame.

Here's What You'll Learn


Why standard safety contracts don't work

  • evoking power struggles
  • re-enacting victim -perpetrator dynamics
  • leaving clients bereft of healthy replacements

Incorporating CARESS

  • walking clients through the model
  • negotiating alternative ways to communicate, release endorphins, and self-soothe
  • why contacting the therapist is not a part of the contract

Processing Clients' artwork

  • why therapists' interpretations are detrimental
  • asking open-ended questions to elicit clients'conscious and unconscious communication
  • identifying the iconic images that connect to trauma narratives

Everything You're Getting


  • 1 hour of video content
  • CE information to come
  • Handouts and resources

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Meet Your Experts


Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA

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Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, is a recognized expert in the strengths-based, de-pathologized treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for over 40 years. She has been an adjunct faculty member at several universities, and is the founder of The Ferentz Institute, now in its seventeenth year of providing continuing education to mental health professionals and graduating several thousand clinicians from her two certificate programs in advanced trauma treatment. In 2009 she was voted the “Social Worker of the Year” by the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work. She is the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide, now in its second edition, Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing and Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons from the Therapist’s Couch.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lisa Ferentz maintains a private practice and is the Founder and President of the Ferentz Institute. She receives royalties as a published author. Lisa Ferentz receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lisa Ferentz is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the American Psychotherapy Association.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Also Available:
DVD
Product Code:
POS057070
Duration:
1 hour
Copyright:
Oct 15, 2020
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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