Techniques for Creatively and Compassionately Addressing the Impulse to Self-Harm and Relapse – Lisa Ferentz
- Faculty:
- Lisa Ferentz
- Duration:
- 1 Hour
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Oct 15, 2020
Description
Many clinicians still insist that clients sign and abide by a standard safety contract as a way to manage self-harm and addictive behaviors. This inevitably creates a power struggle between clients and therapists and forces clients to “white knuckle” their destructive urges without giving them alternative ways to navigate and process the deeper reasons why they turn to acts of self-destruction.
This recording will offer therapists a viable alternative that helps to de-code the deeper trauma-based communication, metabolize emotions, access clients’ creativity and self-compassion, while teaching them healthier ways to self-soothe that don’t lead to an endpoint of guilt or shame.
Handouts
| Manual – Techniques for Creatively and Compassionately Addressing (1.8 MB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
Why standard safety contracts don’t work
- evoking power struggles
- re-enacting victim -perpetrator dynamics
- leaving clients bereft of healthy replacements
Incorporating CARESS
- walking clients through the model
- negotiating alternative ways to communicate, release endorphins, and self-soothe
- why contacting the therapist is not a part of the contract
Processing Clients’ artwork
- why therapists’ interpretations are detrimental
- asking open-ended questions to elicit clients’conscious and unconscious communication
- identifying the iconic images that connect to trauma narratives
Faculty
Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA Related seminars and products: 12
The Ferentz Institute
Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, is a recognized expert in the strengths-based, de-pathologized treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for over 35 years. She presents workshops and keynote addresses nationally and internationally, and is a clinical consultant to practitioners and mental health agencies in the United States, Canada, the UK, and Ireland.
She has been an adjunct faculty member at several universities, and is the founder of “The Ferentz Institute,” now in its 12th year of providing continuing education to mental health professionals and graduating over 1,600 clinicians from her two certificate programs in Advanced Trauma Treatment.
In 2009 she was voted the “Social Worker of Year” by the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work. Lisa is the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2014), Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing (Routledge, 2014), and Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons From the Therapist’s Couch (PESI, 2017). Lisa also hosted a weekly radio talk show, writes blogs and articles for websites on self-harm and self-care, and teaches on many webinars.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lisa Ferentz is in private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Lisa Ferentz is a member of the National Association of Social Workers; and the American Psychotherapy Association.
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