Creative Approaches to Parts Work

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Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, is a recognized expert in the strengths-based, depathologized treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for more than 35 years. She’s a trainer and clinical consultant to practitioners and mental health agencies worldwide. And she’s the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors, Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors, and Finding Your Ruby Slippers.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lisa Ferentz maintains a private practice and is the founder and president of the Ferentz Institute. She receives royalties as a published author and is a consultant for Northwest Hospital. Lisa Ferentz receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lisa Ferentz is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the American Psychotherapy Association.
 

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Objectives

1. Explain the value of introducing “parts” work into the treatment process.
2. Identify at least three “protective” functions of parts.
3. Implement a four-step process to help clients connect situations, context, and inter-personal experiences to the emergence of functional or protective parts.
4. Implement an art modality that allow clients to “map” their parts.
5. Identify at least four questions that can be used as journal prompts to help give a voice to parts, and increase insight and self-compassion.
6. Utilize the two-handed writing prompt designed to strengthen communication and understanding between parts.

Outline

Understanding the concept of “parts”

• letting go of categorizations of “good” and “bad”
• redefining our relationship to parts

Exploring the protective function of parts

• how to validate parts
• working with self-destructive parts

Introducing the concept of “mapping”

• creative approaches to illustrating parts

A 4 step process for working with parts

• exploring a context or situation
• identifying the parts that show up in those circumstances
• creating a visual map to show dominance, alliances, and polarizations
• voicing” parts through journaling
• Experientials: map parts/processing the experience

Processing the benefits of journaling

• accessing internal thoughts and feelings
• re-evaluating the origin of messages
• discovering internal conflicts with parts

Journal prompts to work with a part

• processing questions that enhance empathy
• increasing internal communication
• offering parts alternative jobs

Incorporating the non-dominant hand

• what we elicit when we use our non-dominant hand
• the auto-hypnotic experience
• Experiential: journaling with the non-dominant hand

Incorporating two-handed writing

• Increasing communication between two parts
• Experiential: two-handed journaling/processing

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Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Physicians
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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