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Is psychopharmacology is a 'go-to' in your practice? Join Robert Hedaya as he discusses how to treat the bodily systems that underlay many mental health issues while avoiding medication. After the session, please let us know what you think. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org.Tough Customers: Is It Them or Us?
By Rich Simon As therapists, many of us practice in two different worlds. In the first, we see polite, well-behaved, articulate clients with solid values. They engage fully in therapy, talk cogently about their problems, listen attentively to our responses, make reasonably good-faith efforts to follow our suggestions, and sooner or later get better. No wonder we genuinely like these people! Does This Kid Need Medication? with Ron Taffel
Meds: Myths and Realities: NP0035 – Session 3
Do you feel like you could be a more effective therapist with your younger clients? Do you find it hard to determine when interventions--psychological and pharmacological--might be needed? Join Ron Taffel and learn to identify key diagnostic signs that indicate medications could be helpful when dealing with depression, anxiety, AD/HD, and affective disorders. After the session, please let us know what you think. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org.
Requested page not available (because user or community was deleted) P004, Attachment, Session 6, Allan SchoreThank you for attending this final session of “The Great Attachment Debate.” We hope you’ll come away from this course with a better understanding of attachment research and an awareness of the range of viewpoints about attachment theory and the consulting room.
05.05.2011 Posted In: P004 New Perspectives on Practice: The Great Attachment Debate By Psychotherapy Networker
During this session with Allan Schore, one of the leaders of the neuropsychology movement, he’ll delve into how affect and psychobiological change are significant in the therapy process. He’ll cover intersubjectivity and how understanding it can help us in our work, how to help clients develop a body-based relationship unconscious, and much more. After listening to the course, please take a few minutes to comment about what was most interesting to you about this session, and to reflect on the course in its entirety. What was most relevant to you in your practice and everyday life? What questions remain for you? Thank you all for your participation in this series, and for taking the time to share your thoughts. Comments  |
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Diana
Rich interrupted him nunmerous times which I feel was disrutptful. Rich would ask him a question and not allow him to expand on his process. I felt that Alan was making sense and giving needed information. The interruptions were so frequent that it actually interrupted Alan giving information on the topics on the slide. I appreciate the fact that Rich was trying to get Alan to either give a case study or describe his process with clients, but I feel Alan did describe his process as well as a non verbal process can be described.
Charlie Love
Austin, TX.
It also is interesting to me that my spouse, a very LEFT brained man, gestures all the time. Is is fair to say that is his right brain trying to find an outlet?
Chris
My left brain struggles to make sense of all the information on attachment, as it has evolved since Bowlby’s initial presentations, as it appears in voluminous professional literature, and as presented in the past six weeks on these web lectures, with prestigious clinicians sharing their undoubtedly valuable but sometimes widely-differing opinions in this field.
I am just one therapist in a small practice working with patients referred by State and County mental health programs. Most of my patients are children and I do see presentations of what certainly appears to be attachment-related behavior. My job is to help these children.
So, Dr. Schore’s message spoke to my right brain, and in many ways supported what I have known all along, as a therapist. It also seems to me that Carl Rogers was right—therapy is a way of being, and the alliance is the principal mechanism of change. Virginia Satir was right, too, in her involving of multiple senses—the whole body-- into the therapeutic experience, in her reminding us that everything we do is communication, that we are comunicating all the time.
Donald Meichenbaum once said, in a lecture I attended, that therapy is hard work. And he is right about that: it takes everything I can muster to work with the children I see. But in addition to the hard work, there is also the joy. There is a child’s sudden delighted smile; there is the enchanting music of a spontaneous peal of laughter; there is also an unseen but vividly felt mutual presence. I am humbled and thrilled with what I learn from the children all the time.
My right brain thanks you, Dr. Schore.
I also have been jarred when Rich interrupted a speaker--and I understood that he was trying to provide a structure for the dialogue. The hour long presentations all felt too short--especially those which were supportive of Attachment Theory. I'm glad to know the names of authors who I can go to for more in depth information.
Thanks for the Webinar--my first.
Kenny Meagher
Your notion of the importance of up-regulating positive emotions within a session was important, as often we respond with greater emphasis on the pain. Can you give me an idea of how YOU may up-regulate a positive emotion effectively in a session? I"d like to pay more attention to this. Thank you for your participation in the webinar
Actually on this occasion I thought Rich - despite the overlaps and interruptions (perhaps also caused by some technical thing) - was more in tune with his guest than in some webinars! Despite these irritations, I have come to always admire Rich's steady, cheerful, intelligent management of the webinar event - acting on our behalf (the listener) to slow down and punctuate and repeat and ask for relevance, a kind of "every-person" character. When irritated by his slowing it down, I remind myself how it would be if we got 60 minutes solid from one talking head piling into the short time their lifetime's work!! I'm sure there are other ways to run a webinar, but I've become quite attached to Rich's way!
Nick Child
Scotland
I was trained as a family therapist in the 80s and I remember Minuchin wrote that therapists should steep themselves in learning the theories and techniques and then put it all on the back burner, and just be their spontaneous selves with their clients, and let their inner wisdom choose the approach that feels intuitively right for this client....which jibes very well with the approach you presented, Allan. Whitaker also spoke alot about being with and resonating with the client family...the brain science was missing in their writings, but was certainly intuited!
Thank you again for the excellent webinars Rich, and for your mind opening presentation, Allan.
Rich asked a very important question, one which could set up a whole series in itself: how to train to be an effective therapist in this regulation framework. I believe that the answer comes in our own attachment based psychotherapy. The abilities and skills being discussed become "freed up" in our own "secure" or "earned secure" status and remain accessible as we continue our own therapeutic process. Implicit in this is the transformation of psychotherapy from its sole status in an illness model to it prominence in a health and wellness model.
Thanks Rich for providing this opportunity and for bringing such a warm, relaxed and present sense of yourself to it, albeit with the limitations of minor webcam delay. I look forward to many more. I'd like to hear from you at some stage Allan (and /or Susan) re your thoughts on working with people who seem to use their trauma diagnosis as a weapon to control others and not take any responsibility for their actions.
Thanks for a very useful and thoughtful series.
Great contributions. Thanks again.
Thank you so much for your research and readings regarding the UC right brain communication, your work along with others such as Dr. Siegel's and Dr. Davanloos has been an inspiration to me first a person and then a therapist. You were so kind to reply/write me via email and give me some tips while I was completing my masters a couple of years ago...I thought this profound as I can only imagion how busy you must be with your left brain research on the right brain. What I would like to hear/learn more about is the physiological cues/expressions linked to the right brain.
One question: He suggested that brief psychotherapy is not going to make deeper changes (by which I guess we now mean brain image visible, not just psychological depth!). He talked mainly of individual psychotherapy - ie one-to-one rather than couple or family therapy. Imago therapy most explicitly talks of the clients and their relationship being each other's therapist. As a family therapist, I feel that real short cuts are possible because you are working with a continuing relationship in your room - and certainly Imago and EFT describe the deep changes happening between the clients, not mainly with the therapist.
Hope someone reads this and replies . . . !!
Nick Child
Scotland