2020 CPA Convention

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Transforming Resistance: Working with the Challenges of Defense & Anxiety - 12 CEs

A San Diego ISTDP Community sponsored event with AEDP Faculty Member Steve Shapiro, PhD 

Saturday and Sunday June 6-7, 2020
9:00am – 4:30pm

Location:
Pt Loma Nazarene University, Fermanian Conference Center
3900 Lomaland Drive

This seminar is intended for professionals in mental health and the healing arts and sciences. 

Registration Fees (including CEs and Lunch both days):

• •$300 for students/associates
• •$375 Early Bird (ends March 27, 2020)
• •$425 (after March 27, 2020)

Registration for Transforming Resistance: Working with the Challenges of Defense and Anxiety. Click link below:

https://www.academeca.com/CEUReg/Seminarinfo.aspx?seminarld=3218

Ironically, many clients interfere with the very progress they seek either through their own resistance to the psychotherapy process or because their anxiety is too high and there is too much dysregulation to use the process effectively. Not infrequently, they terminate prematurely before reaching their goals.  This results in tragic consequences for the client, as well as frustration and a sense of failure for the therapist. While clients enter treatment with conscious motivation, resistance is unconscious and, therefore, difficult to address without a coherent system. Therapists typically interpret resistance in a personal way becoming confused, frustrated, and hopeless, with a tendency to hold the client responsible and label him/her as “unmotivated or resistant”. Participants will learn to move beyond resistance and simple symptom management into deep, transformational processes that releases resources of health and resilience. Learn to accelerate treatment using innovative techniques that implore clients to abandon chronic coping patterns that were once necessary, but have long outlived their usefulness and are now causing untoward suffering.

Therapists offer the promise of help often based on the presumption that the client will arrive with sufficient initial motivation, openness and willingness to face painful realities. Frequently this is not the case. Clinicians are rarely adequately prepared to address resistance directly and therapeutically, making it difficult to help more challenging clients.  Defenses can be seen as “a problem,” rather than an inevitable part of the process; defense restructuring can mistakenly be understood as an adversarial task, that we then avoid, rather than a compassionate and collaborative venture.

Therapists of all orientations and levels of experience will gain a clear understanding of the nature and function of defenses, and ways to transform them therapeutically so clients can align with the healthy, buried and previously inaccessible internal resources, as well as effective ways to regulate anxiety when it is too high. The principles taught can be readily integrated with your existing orientation and skill set. By adopting an active, focused, precise, experiential, attachment-based and emotionally engaged stance, therapists can create the safety and attunement necessary for patients to risk abandoning their resistance and shift to healthier functioning. The ultimate goal is to accelerate the healing process for clients, but also to help clinicians practice in a way that substantially reduces counter transference, is deeply rewarding, effective, and authentic, fully compatible with your personal and professional history.

Target Audience: Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists, Creative Arts Therapists – All Levels. There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

TACKLING STIGMA, MOBILIZING HOPE

DATE/TIME:

JUNE 11 - JUNE 13, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110 
Website Link: www.sandiego.edu/hope
Contact Email: mobilizinghope@gmail.com 

It is our pleasure to invite you to an international conference co-sponsored by the World Dignity Project, University of San Diego, and University of California San Diego, which will take place in San Diego, California USA from Thursday, 11 June to Saturday 13 June 2020.

The World Dignity Project has a mission to advocate for mental health and well-being for all, with equality of treatment and dignity in experience as a basic human right.

We aim to mobilize the public to ensure dignity in mental health is a reality by improving mental health and health literacy, changing the public mindset about mental health, encouraging people to talk about mental health and providing hope for people with mental illness.

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF LOVE

Presented by Dr. Trish Stanley, Psy.D, MFT

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Art & Science of Love Workshop's offered:

• 10/16-18/20

Who Should Attend?

The workshop is designed for all couples in a committed relationship. If you have a strong relationship, this workshop will provide you with insights and tools to make it a great one. If your relationship is distressed, this two-day workshop will provide a road map for repair.

Workshop Objectives

• Learn to recognize the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and what to do if they are attacking your marriage
• Identify your relationship’s specific strengths and how to build on them
• Learn about the effects of physiological flooding and how it may affect conflict resolution
• Use the Fondness and Admiration System to renew respect and care for one another
• Create an Emotional Bank Account that you can draw upon in times of stress
• Develop your problem-solving skills, including the six skills for effective conflict resolutions
• Find out how you can make your dreams and aspirations come true for you, your partner, and your relationship

What Will You Learn?

• Foster respect, affection, and closeness
• Build and share a deeper connection with each other
• Keep conflict discussions calm
• Break through and resolve conflict gridlock
• Strengthen and maintain the gains in your relationship