Thirty-four million people are over 65 and that number will double to sixty-eight million within 25 years. This is a very different population, and therapy for this group must also be different. Therapy for seniors has to be brief and effective as quickly as possible. Many of the older members of our society just don't have the time or willingness to spend months awaiting change. Therapist will be encountering of the sixty-five plus population more often. This workshop will dispel some myths about aging and will present various brief treatment approaches used successfully with senior patients. We will include some brief approaches to treating grief and loss, coping with illness and pain and the depression which often accompanies these challenges.
This is a workshop that teaches the participants how to improve their work with couples, and how to use the client/practitioner relationship so that everyone grows. This experience is for therapists who wish to add proven techniques to their already successful ability to work with couples. Emotional fitness teaches the therapist how to see what it is their clients really want in a relationship and provides techniques for helping them achieve their goals.
Immediately accessible, strengths-based, affordable, mental health services are a challenge to deliver. Walk-in, single session therapy is one solution. This presentation will discuss fundamental principles, guidelines for walk-in single session therapy and clinical examples, as well as describe two distinct settings for providing this type of mental health service.
Participants will learn the insights that are presented in my most recent manuscript, Feeling Good about Writing (forward by Albert Ellis, PhD), which is the first book to apply the main principles of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy to writing blocks and the process of creative and nonfiction. We will also discuss the application to other creative endeavors and learn how to develop beliefs which empower, as opposed to defeating, creative processes.
Balancing the emotions and a transformational visualization are two visualizations that permit patients to actively work on pressing life issues during and between therapy sessions. Each visualization will finish with a musical composition by Ray Lynch that enhances the effectiveness and purpose of the visualization.