Transforming Resistance: What to Do When Therapy Gets Stuck
- Speaker:
- Janina Fisher, PhD
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 03 Minutes
- Copyright:
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Mar 19, 2021
- Product Code:
- NOS096121
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Most therapists think of “resistance” as the main obstacle to therapeutic progress. But whether it manifests as a passive-aggressive response to interventions, desperation for help alternating with a refusal to collaborate, self-destructive behavior, or struggle for therapeutic control, the underlying conflicts about self-protection vs. trust in the therapeutic process remain the same. Even when clients sincerely want something different for themselves, they often can’t control the instinctive defensive responses evoked by the therapeutic relationship—but it doesn’t have to thwart therapy. In this recording, discover how to:
- Befriend the resistance by treating it as a resource and allying with it
- Reframe stuckness as a survival strategy and increase clients’ curiosity about the process
- Help clients use action, movement, and gesture to experience stuckness or resistance in new, more empowering ways
Credit
Speaker
Janina Fisher, PhD Related seminars and products
Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, founder of Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), advisory board member of the Trauma Research Foundation, and coauthor with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation and Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is an international expert and consultant on Trauma and Dissociation. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.
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Objectives
- Determine how to avoid “resisting the client’s resistance” to improve clinical outcomes.
- Evaluate how to befriend client resistance by treating it as a resource and allying it with it.
- Assess how to reframe resistance and stuckness as a survival strategy.
- Appraise action, movement, and gesture to help clients experience stuckness or resistance in new, more empowering ways.
Outline
Describe how to avoid “resisting the client’s resistance” to improve clinical outcomes.- Resistance and the psychotherapist
- “Dancing with resistance”
- Looking at the protective function of resistance
- Treating resistance as a “survival resource”
- Understanding resistance in the context of trauma and attachment failure
- Communicating ‘positive regard’ for resistance
- From resistance into empowerment
- Making use of the energy of resistance
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Case Managers
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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