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The Family Scapegoat Treatment Guide: Tools to Release Self-Blame, Reclaim Self-Worth and Heal Attachment Wounds

The Family Scapegoat Treatment Guide: Tools to Release Self-Blame, Reclaim Self-Worth and Heal Attachment Wounds

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Not good enough, not worthy of love or acceptance, and trapped in a cycle of seeking approval that never comes, the family scapegoat carries the burden of the label into adulthood…

…along with the trauma, self-limiting beliefs and emotional wounds that lead them to therapy.

Now in this webinar you’ll delve deep into the intricate dynamics of family scapegoating and get the practical treatment strategies you need to help clients break free and heal from the damaging role assigned to them by their toxic family.

You’ll watch Jay Reid, LPCC, family scapegoat treatment expert and author of Growing Up as the Scapegoat to Narcissistic Parents: A Guide to Healing.

He’ll show you how the power dynamics, emotional manipulation, and trauma of scapegoating impact your clients PLUS give you the clinical tools you need to confidently treat them.

You’ll get an easy-to-follow framework to guide therapy and a complete toolbox of interventions designed to disrupt unhealthy patterns, shift clients away from self-blame, challenge their limiting pathogenic beliefs, set healthy boundaries and much more.

And with Jay’s tips you’ll feel more prepared than ever before to work with clients looking to go “no-contact” with toxic family members.

You’ll end this course ready to provide specialized treatment to the growing number of clients looking to escape the painful legacy of family scapegoating…

…so they can embrace their true identity and feel safe in claiming what is “right” with them.

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Here's What You'll Learn

Relational Dynamics of the Narcissistic Family

  • The psychology of a narcissistic parent
  • The scapegoat child’s function in the narcissistic family
  • How the scapegoat child is made to feel the worthless

Devaluation, Deprivation and Control: The Creation of the Family Scapegoat and Pathogenic Beliefs

  • Devaluation: The child is treated as if they are lower status
  • Deprivation: Emotional support is withheld from the child
  • Control: The child is domineered by the narcissistic parent
  • How healthy developmental goals threaten relationship to parent
  • 8 common pathogenic beliefs held by the scapegoat child

Use a Control-Mastery Theory (CMT) Approach to Treatment

  • Goal of therapy: safely pursue sacrificed developmental goals
  • How and why pathogenic beliefs persist into adulthood
  • Respond in ways that do not align with the client’s pathogenic beliefs
  • Overview of empirical support for CMT
  • Indications and contraindications

Apply a 5-Step Case Conceptualization Method

  • Step 1: Tailor treatment around each specific client’s goals
  • Step 2: Identify pathogenic beliefs that block progress towards goals
  • Step 3: Understand the past traumas that made those beliefs necessary
  • Step 4: How the client may unconsciously test whether those beliefs are still true
  • Step 5: Respond in ways that helps clients answer “No” to their tests
  • Case studies: Learn to apply CMT’s 5-step case conceptualization

The Family Scapegoat Survivor Treatment Toolbox: Strategies for Replacing Self-Blame with Self-Compassion and Self-Worth

  • Specific strategies for validating the survivor’s experience
  • Anxiety management tools to address survivor’s anxiety around success
  • Self-compassion practices to shift clients from self-blame
  • Present-focused interventions to redirect the focus from their parents to themselves
  • Cognitive restructuring exercises to challenge and test pathogenic beliefs
  • Use reflective questioning to explore underlying issues
  • Boundary setting skills
  • Go no contact and other considerations
  • Research, risks and limitations
  • Boundary setting skills to protect themselves from abuse

Everything You're Getting

  • More than 6 hours of video content
  • Up to 6.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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Jay Reid, LPCC

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Jay Reid, LPCC, is a practicing licensed psychotherapist in San Francisco, CA who specializes in the treatment of scapegoat survivors of narcissistic abuse. He conducts trainings and leads consultation groups with therapists who also work with survivors. He has published articles in peer-reviewed academic journals on using Control-Mastery Theory to effectively treat survivors of childhood maltreatment.

Jay works to bring the principles of healing from narcissistic abuse directly to scapegoat survivors. To this end, he runs a popular YouTube channel where he posts weekly videos on recovering from narcissistic abuse. He is the author of Growing up as the Scapegoat to Narcissistic Parents: A Guide to Healing. Jay also offers online courses for scapegoat survivors to understand and overcome the effects of growing up this way. He received his BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and his MS in clinical psychology from the Pennsylvania State University.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jay Reid maintains a private practice. He receives royalties as a published author. Jay Reid receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jay Reid is a member of the American Psychological Association, the California Association for Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors, and California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS059927
Duration:
6 hours, 9 minutes
Copyright:
Nov 15, 2024
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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