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Helping Adult Clients Grow Up: Blend Object Relations Perspectives into Your Therapies for 'Stuck' Clients

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$189

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Provider:
Cross Country Education, LLC

Topic(s):
Health Care

Who Should Attend?
Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Counselors, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Substance Abuse Counselors, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, Mental Health Nurses, College Counselors, Pastoral Counselors and Clergy, Case Managers

Full Seminar Description

An object relations perspective can enrich your therapeutic work, regardless of theoretical orientation, client population or treatment setting. Help clients overcome barriers to achieving successful therapeutic outcomes.

Many people seek help from mental health professionals for struggles like depression, anxiety, impaired judgment, substance abuse or behavioral difficulties. These noticeable problems are often symptomatic of something less conspicuous—deficits in maturity. No one arrives in adulthood in one piece. For various reasons, parts of the self get stuck in developmental culs-de-sac while other parts grow to maturity. Consequently, most people have "maturity gaps," or discrepancies between chronological age and developmental age. In effect, most grown-ups need to grow up in some areas and life eventually requires the use of all aspects of the person, even those that are underdeveloped. When that happens, people either grow in those areas or stay stuck. And staying stuck not only leads people to seek out mental health services, but may also hinder their ability to achieve successful therapeutic outcomes.

This seminar equips participants to help clients identify and develop those immature parts giving rise to troubling symptoms. The theoretical framework presented for understanding this process is object relations which could just as well be called "human relations." Participants will learn to use current relationships, both with the therapist and with others, to facilitate the growth of those personality aspects delayed in earlier times. This seminar communicates a user-friendly object relations perspective that helps clinicians enrich their therapeutic work, regardless of theoretical orientation, client population or treatment setting. The ideas are presented with frequent use of case examples, stories, illustrations and analogies which allow attendees to fully grasp the practical applications of the material. Character change and growth take place in the context of healthy relationships.

WHAT YOU WILL COVER

• Discover how an object relations perspective can enhance all clinical work and reach struggling clients
• Determine what it should and should NOT mean to "deal with your past"
• Understand how character develops and the results of stunted developmental and psychological growth
• Become a catalyst for change—help your clients grow where growth is needed
• Learn how to combine object relations concepts with other therapeutic approaches
• Discuss how growth takes place through stages and through internalizing relationships
• Examine the aspects of character/personality needed to be a healthy, normal person
• Measure the long-term results of character/personality underdevelopment
• Assess what developed normally and what didn't in your clients
• Use the therapeutic relationship as a catalyst for change
• Help clients grow by connecting themselves to healthy others
• Utilize treatment interventions specifically targeted to the lack of growth in each developmental stage

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Psychologists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Counselors
• Psychiatrists
• Social Workers
• Substance Abuse Counselors
• Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
• Mental Health Nurses
• College Counselors
• Pastoral Counselors and Clergy
• Case Managers

Sponsor Background:

Leading the Way in Professional Development.

Cross Country Education is a national leader in high-quality educational products and services for the entire health care industry. Our seminars and training programs are designed to help health care providers achieve improved performance and results in all areas of clinical, financial and operational management. Our faculty of more than 150 instructors are the "best of the best" in their field of expertise and know how to provide programs that really make a difference to participants.

Since 1995, we have trained over 1,000,000 providers, managers, nurses, behavioral health professionals and other key personnel throughout the entire healthcare industry. We produce over 5,000 seminars and conferences annually for the health care industry. Plus, we coordinate in-house training for health care facilities. Let us provide your training and professional education needs!

Our Mission Statement

“CCE exists to identify and provide opportunities for relevant continuing education in a timely and geographically friendly manner that will meet and exceed the needs and expectations of targeted professionals.”

Quote From Past Participants:

"Dr. Godwin was warm and engaging. He kept the material fresh with a good mix of humor and examples/stories. Very helpful and insightful material; presented in a fresh, understandable and easily usable way. Thank you for a great workshop."

"Excellent, informative and refreshing seminar! Dr. Godwin's presentation and speaking style were easy to listen to and understand. The illustrations and metaphors he used were great and very useful. Outstanding."

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