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Overcoming Therapeutic Resistance
Rapid Recovery, Lasting Change
David Burns, MD
Earn 13 CE/CME Hours**
 Over the past several years, I have developed innovative, high-speed techniques designed to highlight and melt away therapeutic resistance at the beginning of therapy, before you try to help the patient. When you use these techniques, you expose the tremendous ambivalence that nearly everyone feels about personal change and boost motivation using techniques like Dangling the Carrot, the Magic Button, Acid Test, Magic Dial, Externalization of Resistance, and Positive Reframing ,along with the Gentle Ultimatum, Sitting with Open Hands, Paradoxical Inquiry, Paradoxical Cost-Benefit Analysis, Devil’s Advocate Technique, and more.
These techniques have led to a profound change in how we treat depression, anxiety disorders, relationship problems, and habits and addictions. Many patients can now recover at speeds that would have seemed impossible as recently as five or ten years ago.
I would encourage you to bring your own case examples to this workshop. Think about your most difficult refractory, oppositional clients so we can use them as examples during the training. You will discover precisely why you’re stuck and exactly what you have to do to move the treatment forward.
This is not a cognitive therapy workshop. In fact, these techniques can easily be integrated with any therapeutic style or orientation. The workshop is for clinicians who want to jump to the next orbit in their clinical work. I’ll show you how to motivate your most resistant and challenging clients and dramatically speed up the recovery process, no matter what types of patients you treat. I'm excited about this workshop and hope you can join us! -- David Burns, MD
Learning Objectives
Attend this powerful workshop and enhance your ability to:
- Explain why patients with resist therapy
- Describe how therapist narcissism and codependency cause therapeutic failure
- Quickly reverse the most common forms of therapeutic resistance
- Employ high-speed techniques for depression, anxiety, and other disorders
- Contrast Outcome Resistance vs. Process Resistance
- Discuss startling new depression research
- Motivate passive, oppositional patients who “yes-but” you
- “Sit with open hands”
- Cement gains with Relapse Prevention Training
Workshop Agenda
Please Download Workshop Brochure
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 15-16, 2012
DoubleTree Hotel Denver North
8773 Yates Drive
Westminster, CO 80031
(303) 427-4000
April 13-14, 2012
Hilton - Houston Southwest
6780 Southwest Freeway
Houston, TX 77074
(713) 977-7911
April 26-27, 2012
Ramada Plaza
160 Frontage Road
Newark, NJ 07114
(973) 589-1000
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.
There will be special, optional luncheon presentations both days. If you plan to attend these presentations, please bring a sack lunch, as there may not be time at all locations to purchase food and bring it back to the workshop venue.
Earn 13 CE/CME hours (UNA/ANCC Nurses = 13.5 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
$269 Early registration (sent 14 days prior to workshop)
$289 Regular registration (on-site reg. is $309, space available)
Aide positions must be filled by phone. Please call for availability. Additional information will be required.
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