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Healing Shame, Guilt and Self-Criticism to Build Authenticity

There’s no better feeling than providing relief from suffering. From the chronically stressed, to those grappling with trauma, dysfunctional relationships with food, substance use issues or anger -- you love the fulfillment of making a difference.

But shame, guilt, and self-criticism play a critical role in these problems and can dramatically disrupt therapy. You worry that you’ll fail to convince clients who feel unworthy that they deserve a better life. And you’re left frustrated, drained and unsure what will move therapy forward when fears about failure and inadequacy create a state of paralysis in shame-driven and self-critical clients.

This recording will give you the skills and tools you need to end the tyrannical hold of shame, guilt and self-criticism and empower your clients to develop the acceptance of themselves, others and reality necessary for the effective treatment of trauma, stress, anxiety, depression, binge eating, substance use, and anger issues.

Experience the satisfaction of greater therapeutic success when you can help clients release unhealthy shame and cultivate the self-acceptance they need to move toward a brighter future!

CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!

No hidden fees – PESI pays for your application fee (a $149.99 value)!
Simply complete this seminar and the post-event evaluation included in this training, and your application to be a Certified Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*

Attendees will receive documentation of CSTS designation from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following the program.

*Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/csts for professional requirements.

Program Information

Objectives

Characterize how shame, guilt, and apathy can function as impediments to clinical progress.
Establish how clinicians can teach clients techniques to negate the sweeping generalizations that can lie behind shame.
Discriminate guilt from regret and communicate how this informs therapeutic approach.
Communicate how normalizing strategies can be used with clients to dissipate self-doubt.
Articulate how Choice Awareness Training can be used in therapy to combat motivational apathy.
Specify how techniques that reframe symptoms as strengths can be used to increase therapeutic effectiveness with self-critical clients.
Assess the impact of exposure and mindfulness interventions on affect avoidance.
Establish how exercises that help clients rediscover their self-worth can be used in trauma treatment.
Communicate how shame pushes clients into binge eating and clarify how self-acceptance interventions can be used to reduce emotional eating.
Determine how shame acts as a cover for anger and explain how compassion exercises can be employed to help clients let go of anger.
Analyze research that establishes shame as a risk factor for suicide in depressed individuals.
Address the importance of managing shame in clients with substance use issues in efforts to prevent relapse.

Outline

Shame, Guilt and Motivational Apathy as Impediments to Clinical Progress

Therapy as a trigger and affect avoidance
Clinical impasses (underutilization, stagnation, premature termination)
Shame, guilt and a sense of not-deserving
Secrets from self and from therapist

Tools for Catalyzing Progress in Therapy

Normalizing, de-pathologizing, un-diagnosing
Dialectic reframing & evolutionary psychology
Mindfulness & metacognition
Self-acceptance & self-compassion
Neuroplasticity of internalization

Shame: Clinical Techniques to Move Therapy Forward

Debunking the myth of self-sabotage
Manage outside judgement with a self-referenced identity
Techniques to negate sweeping generalizations
Foster self-forgiveness with motivational innocence

Guilt: Help Clients Overcome the Debts of Guilt

Differentiate guilt from regret
Ordinary perfection & self-acceptance
Master the fear of making mistakes

Self-Doubt, Dilemmas & Indecision: Interventions for Clients Paralyzed by Uncertainty

Normalizing strategies to dissipate self-doubt
Manage the anxiety of unpredictability with uncertainty training
Make decisions easier with the art of arbitrary choice
Reframe a dilemma as a choice between two rights

Motivational Apathy & Self-Inefficacy: Strategies to Improve Motivation and Autonomy

Find a reason-to-change with the change equation
Techniques that leverage intrinsic motivation
Find freedom-to-change with Choice Awareness Training (CAT)
Pattern interruption for habit change – get clients off autopilot

Self-Criticism and Self-Stigmatization: Quiet Your Client’s Inner Critic

Varieties of self-deprecation (self-criticism, self-loathing, etc.)
Techniques to reframe symptoms as strengths
Compassion exercises for problematic habits of self-care
Recover from the disease model

Working through Affect Avoidance

Exposure, mindfulness & metacognition
Top-down & bottom-up emotional self-regulation
Cue-conditioning of self-Regulation

Connect Specific Strategies to the Treatment of:

Trauma

Damaged goods, survivor’s guilt & avoidance of conflict
Somatic interventions to restore the original goodness
Strategies to survive without guilt
Conflict avoidance: Paper tigers v. real tigers
Exercises to rediscover self-worth

Stress and Anxiety

Mediate the paralysis of perfection with self-acceptance
Non-neurotic, stress-free perfectionism
Social anxiety as shame & self-doubt: disapproval inoculation & self-referencing
Mindfulness-based, non-anxious self-consciousness

Emotional Eating & Binge Eating

How shame pushes clients into binge eating
Choice Awareness Training for moderation & presence
Self-acceptance strategies for emotional eating
Transcend body shame by dis-identifying from the physical

Anger

Shame of fear: Shame as a cover for anger
The vicious guilt-anger loop
Self-acceptance techniques for internal damage control
Compassion exercises to let go of anger

Depression

Depression as self-exile
Shame as a risk factor for suicide
Mindfulness for managing rumination
Metacognitive silence: From negative self-talk to selfaccepting non-talk

Substance Abuse

Addressing the shame of relapse
Self-assertive trigger avoidance
Choice awareness techniques for habit modification
Build craving/impulse control skill power

Betrayal, Secrecy & Deception

Separation & divorce as self-care & progress
Secrets from therapist without rupture of rapport
De-pathologizing the motives behind lying & deception

Research, Limitations and Potential Risks

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Addictions Counselors
Case Managers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Other Mental Health Professionals
Chaplains/Clergy

Copyright : 04/11/2019

Parts Work to Access Inner Critics & Strengthen Self-Compassion

Getting Creative with Parts: Expressive Techniques to Access Inner Critics and Strengthen Self-Compassion

It’s important to honor all our clients’ inner parts in therapy. Accessing, understanding, and reframing even frightening and confusing Inner Critics as protective—and exploring why they show up as they do—is especially important to fully engage in healing work. But how can we—creatively, safely, and effectively—help clients access and interact with these parts and move toward wholeness. In this workshop, we’ll consider key concepts from Internal Family Systems and inner-child work, and explore expressive modalities that help clients access internal parts that hold judgment and shame, while also bringing the curiosity, creativity, and kindness that comes from Self- clients’ wisest, most compassionate part. You’ll explore:

Creative techniques for accessing and reducing inner criticism
Cognitive reframes and writing exercises to bring both life-enhancing and shaming parts into fuller awareness
Somatic resourcing techniques, such as Focusing, figure-eight rock, and physical embodiment, to help deepen connections and communication with internal parts
Creative strategies to soften critical parts and heighten internal safety, including safe place art and breath work

Program Information

Objectives

Utilize specific expressive modalities to enhance internal safety as well as inner communication to improve client outcomes.
Recommend creative techniques for improving client functioning, including reducing inner criticism, and increasing self-compassion.
Apply cognitive reframes that honor the protective nature of Inner critics while reducing the fear and judgment that causes clients to resist creative work in a clinical setting.
Articulate somatic resourcing techniques help clients deepen the connection and communication of internal parts.
Analyze the efficacy of creative strategies to soothe traumatized parts and heighten internal safety in clients.

Outline

Articulating the potential risks and limitations of the work
Exploring the concept of parts: From Buddhism to IFS
Understanding clients’ Inner Critics
Incorporating art into treatment
IFS and the concept of Self
How to use focusing and somatic awareness to access Self
Using somatic resourcing and art to externalize Self
Strengthening communication between parts
Creating inner safety and comfort for parts
Analyzing the efficacy of interventions

Target Audience

Psychologist
Physicians
Nurses
Counselors
Marriage and Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Social Workers

Copyright : 03/21/2024

The Family Scapegoat Treatment Guide: Tools to Release Self-Blame, Reclaim Self-Worth and Heal Attachment Wounds

Not good enough, not worthy of love or acceptance, and trapped in a cycle of seeking approval that never comes, the family scapegoat carries the burden of the label into adulthood…

…along with the trauma, self-limiting beliefs and emotional wounds that lead them to therapy.

Now in this webinar you’ll delve deep into the intricate dynamics of family scapegoating and get the practical treatment strategies you need to help clients break free and heal from the damaging role assigned to them by their toxic family.

You’ll watch Jay Reid, LPCC, family scapegoat treatment expert and author of Growing Up as the Scapegoat to Narcissistic Parents: A Guide to Healing.

He’ll show you how the power dynamics, emotional manipulation, and trauma of scapegoating impact your clients PLUS give you the clinical tools you need to confidently treat them.

You’ll get an easy-to-follow framework to guide therapy and a complete toolbox of interventions designed to disrupt unhealthy patterns, shift clients away from self-blame, challenge their limiting pathogenic beliefs, set healthy boundaries and much more.

And with Jay’s tips you’ll feel more prepared than ever before to work with clients looking to go “no-contact” with toxic family members.

You’ll end this course ready to provide specialized treatment to the growing number of clients looking to escape the painful legacy of family scapegoating…

…so they can embrace their true identity and feel safe in claiming what is “right” with them.

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Program Information

Objectives

Determine how a narcissistic parent influences the child to assume the blame for all the family’s problems.
Name three ways empirical research has shown children of narcissistic parents suffer psychologically.
Identify why the scapegoat child sacrifices healthy developmental goals to stay in relationship to their narcissistic parent.
Define pathogenic beliefs and why they generate psychological suffering for the scapegoat survivor.
Examine Control-Mastery Theory’s Five-Step Case Conceptualization to scapegoat survivors in treatment.
Name two ways scapegoat survivor’s may coach their therapist based on Control-Mastery Theory.

Outline

Relational Dynamics of the Narcissistic Family

The psychology of a narcissistic parent
The scapegoat child’s function in the narcissistic family
How the scapegoat child is made to feel the worthless

Devaluation, Deprivation and Control: The Creation of the Family Scapegoat and Pathogenic Beliefs

Devaluation: The child is treated as if they are lower status
Deprivation: Emotional support is withheld from the child
Control: The child is domineered by the narcissistic parent
How healthy developmental goals threaten relationship to parent
8 common pathogenic beliefs held by the scapegoat child

Use a Control-Mastery Theory (CMT) Approach to Treatment

Goal of therapy: safely pursue sacrificed developmental goals
How and why pathogenic beliefs persist into adulthood
Respond in ways that do not align with the client’s pathogenic beliefs
Overview of empirical support for CMT
Indications and contraindications

Apply a 5-Step Case Conceptualization Method

Step 1: Tailor treatment around each specific client’s goals
Step 2: Identify pathogenic beliefs that block progress towards goals
Step 3: Understand the past traumas that made those beliefs necessary
Step 4: How the client may unconsciously test whether those beliefs are still true
Step 5: Respond in ways that helps clients answer “No” to their tests
Case studies: Learn to apply CMT’s 5-step case conceptualization

The Family Scapegoat Survivor Treatment Toolbox: Strategies for Replacing Self-Blame with Self-Compassion and Self-Worth

Specific strategies for validating the survivor’s experience
Anxiety management tools to address survivor’s anxiety around success
Self-compassion practices to shift clients from self-blame
Present-focused interventions to redirect the focus from their parents to themselves
Cognitive restructuring exercises to challenge and test pathogenic beliefs
Use reflective questioning to explore underlying issues
Boundary setting skills
Go no contact and other considerations
Research, risks and limitations
Boundary setting skills to protect themselves from abuse

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage and Family Therapists
Psychologists
Addiction Counselors
Nurse Practitioners
Physicians
Others in Caring Professions

Embracing Suicidal Parts with IFS Therapy

Embracing Suicidal Parts: Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy to Heal Traumatic Wounds

This recording offers a practical exploration of how to approach suicidal ideation and behaviors from an Internal Family Systems approach. Examining the pieces of the psyche that drive these thoughts, feels, and actions, the IFS approach encourages the therapists to help clients make peace with, embrace and find love for suicidal parts.

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

Program Information

Objectives

Conceptualize suicide from the Internal Family Systems approach.
Employ at least 4 skills to integrate the IFS approach to suicidality treatment into other modalities.
Practice aspects of coping through the IFS approach for suicidal parts management.

Outline

Demonstrate the basics and foundational principles of IFS.
Conceptualize IFS theory as an intervention for suicidality.
Practice aspects of coping through the IFS approach for suicidal parts management.

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals