Emotional and Social Intelligence: Practical Applications for Therapeutic Change

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Deficits in emotional and social intelligence (ESI) cause a wide range of mental health problems. Discover how to use ESI with clients across a wide range of ages and diagnoses. Help your clients overcome difficulties and achieve positive changes.

Emotional and social intelligence is comprised of abilities that go beyond intellectual competencies and enable us to understand and manage our emotions, control our behavior, accurately interpret the events and situations we experience and interact successfully with others. Research indicates that these capabilities are more important than IQ to overall success in life and that deficits in emotional and social intelligence cause a wide range of mental health problems. Therefore, therapeutic techniques for strengthening these competencies are useful in work with clients across a wide range of ages and diagnoses.

Therapeutic applications of emotional and social intelligence make use of advances in the fields of neuroscience, behavior genetics and positive psychology. Therapists can use basic principles of modern brain research and behavior genetics in their work with clients by grasping a few basic principles (and without memorizing lots of terminology). The new field of positive psychology goes beyond our traditional focus on reducing psychopathology to help people achieve more positive experiences, relationships, personal strengths and well-being.

In this training, recent findings from these exciting fields of research will be translated into a set of specific, practical techniques for treating depression, anxiety, conduct problems, aggression and relationship problems. Although working through emotional dynamics and past experiences is important with some clients, this day will focus on a different aspect of psychotherapy -- teaching clients things they did not know and helping them develop skills for overcoming difficulties and achieving the changes they want in their lives.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Counselors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Psychiatrists
• Psychiatric Nurses
• Alcohol and Drug Addiction Counselors
• Psychotherapists
• Educators
• Case Managers
• Corrections Personnel
• Pastoral Counselors/Clergy

"This instructor (Jeremy) was great! Very engaging -- not boring at all! Kept me interested throughout the whole day -- still wanted to learn more after workshop ended. Very responsive to audience needs. Loved to hear practical applications he uses in his practice. Best workshop I've ever been to! This was about LIFE!" - Rachel Barnholtz, Social Worker, St. Louis, Missouri

"Outstanding speaker; rich experience. I would love to take a class with him again! Many thanks!" - Peggy Smith, Licensed Professional Counselor and Social Worker, Liberty, Missouri

WHAT YOU WILL COVER

• Discover how to increase the emotional and social intelligence of your clients
• Increase clients' self-acceptance and self-control by teaching basic concepts of neuroscience, behavior genetics and positive psychology
• Learn step-by-step techniques for strengthening clients' psychosocial skills
• Identify fundamental life lessons that clients need to learn
• Explain how genetics, neurophysiology, formative experiences and personal self-direction interact to determine life outcomes
• Utilize techniques that help internalizing clients to evaluate themselves fairly and assess challenges accurately
• Conduct interventions that help externalizing clients to perceive other people accurately to manage their emotions and behavior
• Implement strategies that help all sorts of clients to balance the needs of self and others, behave assertively, communicate and solve problems
• Apply research findings that help clients understand and manage themselves and other people more effectively, and that help therapists gain more satisfaction from their work

Sponsor Background:

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