Forgiveness: Wounded, Angry and Blaming Clients

Fred Luskin, PhD
CE Hours: 6

Ordering Info

Online Home Study: $60.00
Dr. Luskin presents his research-based evidence for forgiveness in the promotion of mental and physical health. He teaches students how to employ forgiveness in working with the most wounded of clients.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The importance of practicing forgiveness has been extolled in religious traditions for centuries, but only recently has the attention of psychology turned to forgiveness. It is unfortunate that many excellent therapists lack training in the critical skill of forgiveness. Good clinical research is showing the virtues of forgiveness in the promotion of mental and physical health, and when therapists add forgiveness to their treatment menus they improve their ability to help their clients.

 

A STORY OF FORGIVENSS

In 1999, Dr. Luskin and colleagues brought together the first of two groups of Northern Irish mothers who had lost a son in the religious strife in that country. These were women who had, in some cases, been suffering the pain of this loss for twenty years. Their stories were heartbreaking. Losing their sons in random acts of fatal violence had left them with deep and seemingly lifelong emotional scars.

In the pre-treatment assessment they had elevated levels of depression, anger, and both emotional and physical distress. In the post-treatment measurements the group showed significant improvement in every variable measured, and continued to demonstrate this improvement in follow-up evaluations after they returned home. This workshop describes in detail the forgiveness process offered to these parents, and how to implement it in the treatment of blaming, hurt, and angry clients. Forgiveness does not mean condoning the behavior of those who have hurt us, it is a choice that we make to release our past and heal our present.

 

COURSE Overview


A review of the effect of unmanaged anger and hurt on psychosocial and physical health.

The effect of the positive emotions on psychosocial and physical health.

Dr. Luskin's research on forgiveness.

Relating happiness to present-centered attention to the positive.

Pre-conditions to forgiveness and need for grieving losses.

Three core components in creating an interpersonal grievance.

A working definition of forgiveness.

What forgiveness is not.

Relating forgivenss to the grieving process.

The adverse effects of holding a grievance.

Constructive and destructive anger.

Techniques of cognitive disputation for "unenforceable rules."

Guided imagery practices to facilitate forgiveness.

Narrataive and story as an assessment of self-healing and as a tool to create forgiveness.

Guided practice in finding "positive intention."

Guided practice in the H.E.A.L. method of forgiveness.

 

ATTENDEES WILL LEARN

To understand the physiological response to both positive and negative emotional states and how this mind/body link is crucial to learning how to forgive.
To distinguish constructive from destructive anger.
To develop a practical definition of forgiveness that becomes an aid to practice.
To distinguish forgiveness from condoning, reconciliation, justice and acceptance.
The three preconditions to forgiveness.
To understand the three core components of creating a grievance.
The nine steps of forgiveness.
To teach clients the H.E.A.L. visualization method of forgiveness.

 

803001

6 CEs Audio Course Taken Online

 

Continuing Education

Satisfactory Completion
Participants must have paid course fee, completed evaluation, and completed post-test with passing grade of 75% in order to receive a certificate. Failure to complete and submit these materials will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available.

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Psychologists
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Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists
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OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (6) clock hours, #RCST110701
TX: Approved CE Sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists. Provider #151 6 CE hours.

Creative Arts Therapists
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Educators
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Nurses
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Dentists
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