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Paradoxical Agenda-Setting
How to Dramatically Boost Your Effectiveness in the
ForTreatment of Depression, Anxiety, Relationship Problems,
Eating Disorders, and Drug/Alcohol Abuse
David Burns, MD
Earn 7 CE/CME Hours**
In my 35 years of practice, I've developed scores of powerful psychotherapy techniques, but one has stood out as extraordinarily important in working with every patient and critically important with more challenging patients who don't respond to our best efforts to help. I call this technique Paradoxical Agenda-Setting (PAS). PAS goes way beyond setting treatment goals and continues to be of vital importance throughout the course of treatment. In this workshop, I’ll show you exactly how PAS works and how to help patients struggling with depression, anxiety disorders, relationship problems and addictions such as binge eating and drug/alcohol abuse.
What exactly is Paradoxical Agenda-Setting? This is the most difficult part of the workshop to describe – to some extent it must be experienced to be really understood. First, you establish and maintain the deepest possible therapeutic alliance. Then, in the most graphic, pragmatic fashion, you help the client explore the tremendous ambivalence that nearly everyone feels about personal transformation, whether they're conscious of it or not. This process is the heart of the workshop and is the point where the science and art of psychotherapy come together, where strong, conflicted emotions are frequently expressed, and where the real magic of therapy occurs.
Teaching methods will include lecture, demonstrations, and exercises, but will focus on practical case examples. During the workshop you'll learn to:
- Pinpoint the 8 most common forms of therapeutic resistance
- Become the “voice” of the patient’s subconscious resistance
- Overcome Outcome Resistance with the Magic Button and Magic Dial techniques
- Defeat Process Resistance with the Gentle Ultimatum and the Paradoxical Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Paradox habits and addictions with the Devil’s Advocate Technique
- Learn the art of acceptance: to “hold with an open hand” (like the Buddah)
- Utilize future relapses as opportunities to maximize clinical gains
Though I'm known primarily as a cognitive therapist, this is not a cognitive therapy workshop. PAS is a fundamental and powerful technique that can easily be integrated with any therapeutic style or orientation. It will help you motivate your most resistant clients, dramatically enhance your clinical effectiveness, and accelerate the recovery process, no matter what your therapeutic orientation may be. PAS is, essentially, psychotherapy on steroids. This is a workshop I've been looking forward to presenting for a long time! I hope you can join us!
Learning Objectives
Attend this powerful workshop and enhance your ability to:
- Demonstrate how paradoxical agenda-setting techniques can motivate resistant clients
- Recognize and deal effectively with 8 common forms of resistance
- Utilize paradoxical interventions to help clients change
- Describe how the “art of acceptance” can enhance clinical recovery
- Weave paradox, empathy, and cogitive therapy techniques into a powerful therapeutic alliance
- Employ powerful relapse prevention techniques
Who Should Attend
All mental health professionals, including psychologists, psychiatrists, family physicians, social workers, psychiatric nurses, therapists, alcohol & drug counselors, employee assistance counselors, school counselors, youth workers, sexual abuse counselors, vocational rehabilitation consultants, social service co-ordinators, street workers, and crisis counselors who work directly with clients and are seeking practical, proven methods to enhance their therapeutic skills
Dates and Locations __________
March 24,, 2010
Sheraton Gateway LA
6101 West Century Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(310) 642-1111
March 25, 2010
CSheraton Pasadena
303 Cordova Street
Pasadena, CA 91101
(626) 449-4000
March 26, 2010
Hilton Woodland Hills
6360 Canoga Avenue
Woodland Hills, CA 91367
(818) 595-1000
Workshop Information
Check-in begins at 7:45 AM and the workshop hours are 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM with lunch on your own from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM. There will be two fifteen minute breaks.
Earn 7 CE/CME hours (UNA/ANCC Nurses = 7.5 hours)
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop includes graphic clinical material that may be disturbing to some attendees. If you need assistance please contact one of the workshop aides, the conference coordinator, or notify the speaker.
Registration Information
To register by phone call 800-258-8411. Or register online on the Calendar Page
$129 Early registration (sent 14 days prior to workshop)
$149 Regular registration (on-site reg. is $169, space available)
Aide positions must be filled by phone. Please call for availability. Additional information will be required.
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