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Workshop Description

In my 35 years of practice, I've developed scores of powerful psychotherapy techniques, but one has stood out as extraordinarily important in working with every patient and critically important with more challenging patients who don't respond to our best efforts to help. I call this technique Paradoxical Agenda-Setting (PAS). In this workshop, I’ll show you exactly how PAS works and how to use it with patients struggling with depression, anxiety disorders, relationship problems, and addictions such as binge eating, drug and alcohol abuse, and procrastination.

What exactly is Paradoxical Agenda-Setting? This is the most difficult part of the workshop to describe – to some extent it must be experienced to be really understood. First, you establish and maintain the deepest possible therapeutic alliance. Then, in the most graphic, pragmatic fashion, you help the client explore the tremendous ambivalence that nearly everyone feels about change, whether they're conscious of it or not. This process is the heart of the workshop and is the point where the science and art of psychotherapy come together, where strong, conflicted emotions are frequently expressed, and where the real magic of therapy occurs.

This is not a cognitive therapy workshop. PAS is a fundamental and powerful technique that can easily be integrated with any therapeutic style or orientation. PAS is, essentially, psychotherapy on steroids. This workshop is for any therapist who wants to jump to the next orbit in his or her clinical work. You’ll learn how to motivate your most resistant and oppositional clients, dramatically enhance your clinical effectiveness, and speed up the recovery process, no matter what your therapeutic orientation may be, and no matter what types of patients you treat. Specifically, I'll show you how to:

·    Pinpoint the eight most common forms of therapeutic resistance

·    Become the “voice” of the patient’s subconscious resistance

·    Defeat outcome resistance with the  Magic Button and the Magic Dial techniques

·    Defeat process resistance with the Gentle Ultimatum and Paradoxical Cost-Benefit Analysis

·    Paradox habits and addictions with the Devil’s Advocate Technique

·    Learn the art of acceptance, so you can “hold with open hands” (like the Buddha)

·    Utilize future relapses as opportunities to maximize clinical gains

Course Objectives

*  Demonstrate how paradoxical agenda-setting techniques can motivate resistant clients

*  Recognize and deal effectively with eight common forms of resistance

*  Utilize paradoxical interventions to help their clients change

*  Describe how the "art of acceptance" can enhance clinical recovery

*  Employ powerful relapse prevention techniques

Course Schedule

Morning

Afternoon

7:30 AM – Registration 8:00AM – What Really Causes and Maintains Depression, Anxiety and the Addictions? –  Startling New Research –  Practical Clinical   Implications The Basics of Paradoxical Agenda-Setting (PAS) –  “Holding with Open Hands” 10:00 AM – Break 10:15 PM – The Eight Types of Therapeutic Resistance – And How to Defeat Them –  Process Resistance –  Outcome Resistance Therapeutic Narcissism and Co-Dependency – And How They Defeat Us  12:00 Noon – Optional Luncheon Presentation (Bring a Sack Lunch)

1:00 PM – Paradoxical Agenda Setting Techniques with –  Depression –  Anxiety Disorders –  Anger and Relationship Problems –  Binge Eating –  Drug and Alcohol Abuse –  Procrastination 3:15 PM – Break 3:30 PM – How to Maintain a Superb Therapeutic Alliance While Using PAS –  Genuineness vs. Manipulation –  Live Demonstration Relapse Prevention Revisited –  Mood and Anxiety Disorders –  Habits and Addictions 4:30 PM – Adjourn

CE/CME INFORMATION:

The Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior (IAHB) has been approved to offer 7  hours of continuing education and continuing medical education (except where otherwise noted) by the following:

ALCOHOLISM & DRUG ABUSE COUNSELORS: Approved by the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors Approved Provider Program (NAADAC Approved Education Provider #187) for 7 CEHs.  Provider approved by CAADAC, Provider #4S-86-074-0111 an ICRC member which has reciprocity with most ICRC member states, for 7 CEHs. This course has been submitted to the IAODAPCA for course approval. Approval Pending.

CEAPS: This course has been approved by the Employee Assistance Certification Commission (EAPA/EACC) in Domain III for 7 PDHs. EACC Approval # SSIAHB0210-C91.

COUNSELORS and MFTs:  IAHB is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and may offer NBCC approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program. (NBCC Provider #5216). IAHB is approved by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation (Provider #168-000119).  This course meets the qualifications for MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (Provider # PCE 36). IAHB has been approved by the Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists to provide CE offerings for MFTs. Provider Number 154. IAHB is co-sponsor with R. Cassidy Seminars is Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (12) clock hours, #RCST110701.

Nurses: IAHB is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Utah Nurses Association, an accredited Approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.  (UNA=7.5 CEHs. Provider Code P09-03). Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, (BRN Provider CEP#2672) for 7 CEHs.

PHYSICIANS:  The Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior (IAHB) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  IAHB designates this educational activity for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

PSYCHOLOGISTS:  IAHB is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  IAHB maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

SOCIAL WORKERS: This course meets the qualifications for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (IAHB Provider #PCE-36). IAHB is approved by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation (Provider #159-000223). IAHB is co-Sponsor with R. Cassidy Seminars, ACE Provider #1082 approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program. Approval Period: April 15, 2009-April 15, 2012. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for the program. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social workers will receive 7 continuing education clinical social work clock hours for participating in this course. . IAHB is co-sponsor with R. Cassidy Seminars is Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for (12) clock hours, #RCST110701.

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