“What goes around....” is a 6-hour law/ethics workshop and is focused on recent and emerging developments in law and ethics that will impact clinicians of all disciplines, starting with changes to child abuse reporting obligations, then moving to cover changes for custody evaluators, record-keeping and maintenance, emerging issues and risks regarding telehealth practice, updates on duties to inform and warn when violent behavior may occur, modifications of laws concerning “retirement” of professionals, receiving subpoenas, testifying in court, risk management for supervisors, suicide risk management, and “selected slippery slopes.”
“What goes around....” is a 6-hour law/ethics workshop and is focused on recent and emerging developments in law and ethics that will impact clinicians of all disciplines, starting with changes to child abuse reporting obligations, then moving to cover changes for custody evaluators, record-keeping and maintenance, emerging issues and risks regarding telehealth practice, updates on duties to inform and warn when violent behavior may occur, modifications of laws concerning “retirement” of professionals, receiving subpoenas, testifying in court, risk management for supervisors, suicide risk management, and “selected slippery slopes.”
Drs. John and Julie Gottman will present a state-of-the-art review of how to conceptualize and treat the highly intractable problem of domestic violence toward intimate partners. They will review the research literature and present a conceptualization of the issues in treating this population. They will describe a highly successful randomized clinical trial study and the results that demonstrate long-term follow up effectiveness.
Living is composed of a supreme flow of experiences. Telling is the selective option to revisit this landscape and to reveal the accessibly hidden markers of a lifetime. Dr. Polster will show how a sharply pointed attention within a group process will light up our lives, a key element in a growing life focus cultural movement. Techniques and precedents for conducting this process will be addressed.
Using experiential methods promotes adaptive states in clients. Experiential methods can be the center point of therapy.
Educational Objectives:
1. Describe the process of “signifying.”
2. Describe how to use “signifying” strategically.
Problems/Symptoms may be viewed as attempts by the creative unconscious to bring transformation and healing. A generative state can allow that transformation to be realized.
Educational Objectives:
To list three viable contracts for change by the patient. Ballroom ABC
To describe the use of early child scenes in making changes in the present.
Educational Objectives:
To demonstrate that Reality Therapy can be successfully applied to any type of client.
To demonstrate that it can be applied to a couple.
Educational Objectives:
To state what features in a person's body express his emotional conflicts.
To name a body technique that directly effects a personality program.
Educational Objectives:
To describe socratic questioning.
To give examples of three negative automatic thoughts.
To give examples of three dysfunctional beliefs.