A few of the things you’ll learn in this nuts-and-bolts course:
- How to successfully move past impasses with borderline, narcissistic, attachment-disordered, and self-destructive clients
- Solid strategies for gaining and retaining therapeutic leverage, using empathic confrontation, and repairing ruptures in the clinical relationship
- How to identify and avoid common errors such as sounding like a disappointed parent, relieving the client’s pain too soon, and letting our own vulnerabilities get in the way
- A concrete approach to customizing treatment to the characteristics and needs of your client
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Concrete Strategies for Increased Effectiveness
With Psychotherapy's Most Challenging Clients.
With Psychotherapy's Most Challenging Clients.
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Session 1: Treating the Highly Resistant Client Clifton Mitchell, Ph.D. Get practical guidance on a range of clinical methods that will help you overcome stagnation and create therapeutic movement with your most hard-to-treat cases by learning:
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Session 2: Treating the Narcissistic Client Wendy Behary, L.C.S.W. Learn how to form genuine relationships with self-absorbed, arrogant clients lacking in empathy by:
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Session 3: Treating the Borderline Client Richard Schwartz, Ph.D. Discover ways to avoid unnecessary therapeutic struggles through openhearted acceptance of yourself and the client by:
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Session 4: Treating Clients with Severe Attachment Disorders Janina Fisher, Ph.D. Develop better ways of working with clients trapped in their feelings of shame and worthlessness by learning to:
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Session 5: Treating the Stuck and Self-Destructive Client William Doherty, Ph.D. Learn how to move beyond subtly blaming the client, giving speeches, or becoming defensive when therapy stalls by:
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Session 6: Customizing Therapy with the Resistant Client John Norcross, Ph.D. Explore how to match treatment approaches with client characteristics to avoid treatment stalemates by understanding:
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| Streaming-video webcasts available on-demand 24/7 for a full year. Watch whenever it's most convenient for you! |
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| MP3s of every session let you listen and learn wherever you want-- at the gym, in the car, anywhere you please. They're yours to download and keep. |
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| New! This course now includes transcripts of every session so you can read and take notes as you watch or listen. Transcripts are yours to keep forever. |
Tough Customers Let You Engage
Your Most Challenging Clients with Flexibilty,
Compassion, and Powerful Strategies that Work.
Have You Ever Struggled With Clients Who...
- refuse to talk about topics that make them uncomfortable?
- firmly believe that all of their issues are the fault of others?
- are continuously unable to move beyond past failures and setbacks?
- become overly dependent on your professional thoughts and advice?
- leave you feeling drained, ineffective, or even incompetent?
Then Join Us to Learn
Practical Strategies to Address
These Challenging Clinical Issues
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not only in the clinical setting but also in ordinary day to day experience.
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Meet The Experts Who Will Be Your Guides
For Working with Tough Customers
Clifton Mitchell, Ph.D., is a professor at East Tennessee State University, where he received the Teacher of the Year award in 2002. He’s the author of Effective Techniques for Dealing with Highly Resistant Clients.
Wendy Behary, L.C.S.W., the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and of The New Jersey Institute for Schema Therapy, is the author of Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed.
Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., is director of the Center for Self Leadership and the originator of the Internal Family Systems model. His books include Internal Family Systems Therapy and, most recently, You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For.
Janina Fisher, Ph.D., is assistant director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, an instructor at the Trauma Center in Boston, and a former instructor at Harvard Medical School. She lectures and writes about integrating neuroscience research and body-centered approaches into traditional psychotherapy.
William Doherty, Ph.D., is a professor and director of the Citizen Professional Center at the University of Minnesota. He’s the author or coauthor of 12 books on families and family therapy, including Take Back Your Marriage, Take Back Your Kids, and Family Therapy, with Susan McDaniel.
John Norcross, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., is a professor of psychology and distinguished university fellow at the University of Scranton, a clinical psychologist, and editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session. He’s the author, coauthor, and editor of many books and publications, including Psychotherapy Relationships That Work.
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