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Whole Psychiatry: Alternatives to Conventional Psychopharmacology with Robert Hedaya
Meds: Myths and Realities: NP0035 – Session 4
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.
Thursday Workshops
108 The Power of Play
Robert Schwarz and Elaine Braff
Thursday All-Day
We take therapy seriously because it's a serious business, but without infusions of joy, humor, and playfulness, it can become a depressing slog . . .
that doesn’t help clients lead happier lives and isn’t much fun for therapists. In fact, helping clients learn to have fun may be one of the most serious tasks of therapy. In this highly experiential workshop, we’ll practice techniques drawn from improvisation, psychodrama, Energy Psychology, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, art, movement, and the amazing “karaoke therapy” to help us free our inner clowns, wise fools, and joyous children. You’ll learn how to reduce the baneful influence of negative messages from society (and possibly your own parents) that play is “not serious” and “not for grown-ups,” reconnect with what makes your own heart soar, and liberate your therapeutic creativity from your relentless inner scolds. You’ll leave the workshop with a personal plan for cultivating more fun and creativity in your life and work.
Robert Schwarz, Psy.D., who’s organized 11 national conferences on trauma, Ericksonian hypnosis, and brief therapy, is the coauthor of We’re No Fun Anymore and author of Tools for Transforming Trauma.
Elaine Braff, M.P.S., A.T.R., a Master PAIRS Leader who teaches couples relationship skills that promote intimacy and joy, is the coauthor of We’re No Fun Anymore.
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