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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Brief Therapy | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) | Personality Disorders | Passive-Aggressiveness | Therapeutic Relationship
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- Vann Joines, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:18:47
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2006
- Short Description:
- There are six core personality adaptations that form the basic building blocks of personality. These are schizoid, paranoid, antisocial, passive-aggressive, obsessive-compulsive and histrionic. Each of these has a specific way (feeling, thinking, or behavior) of making contact with the world, a target area for growth and change, and a trap area where the person has the greatest defenses. By knowing this information, the therapist can quickly establish rapport, target interventions to the area that will produce the greatest change, and avoid getting trapped in the client's defenses. This workshop will look at these six core adaptations, how they develop, and how to work most effectively with each one.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Borderline | Brief Therapy | Personality Disorders
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- Michael Munion, MA, LPC
- Duration:
- 1:18:42
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2006
- Short Description:
- This course examines the nature of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and presents an integrated model of treatment of specific issues in brief, solution-focused episodes. Core elements of a safety plan and development of a community resource network are described. Careful management of the therapeutic relationship is a critical part of this approach. Some specific protocols for common BPD issues, such as suicidal ideation and self-injurious behaviors are elaborated.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Brief Therapy | Dreamwork | Insomnia | Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- Deborah Beckman
- Duration:
- 1:18:59
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2006
- Short Description:
- A course on clinical approaches to nightmares and chronic sleep disturbance using Ericksonian principles, lucid dreaming, and hypnotic language. Drawing from vivid case examples and sleep science, it shows how therapists can help clients reduce fear, re-enter sleep, and regain a sense of mastery without relying on dream interpretation. The work offers practical ways to engage imagination, shift nighttime helplessness, and restore sleep as a therapeutic entry point for broader change.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Children and Adolescent Therapy | Experiential Therapy | Brief Therapy | Psychotherapy
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- Jaelline Jaffe, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:18:44
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2006
- Short Description:
- Most therapy is verbal and logical; most troubled teens are neither! Brain scans now explain why, and we need to connect with kids where they are. Adolescents respond to experiential and behavioral approaches. Successful intervention with teens includes activities engaging the body, mind, emotion and creativity to accomplish far more than talk therapy alone. Come experience several fun, interactive strategies immediately useful with teenage clients, no matter how withdrawn, hostile, or defensive they appear to be.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Trance | Burnout | Humor | Brief Therapy | Hypnosis
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- Betty Blue, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:11:24
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2006
- Short Description:
- Stress, grief, and burnout can quietly harden into learned helplessness. In this lively and experiential short course, Betty Blue reframes playfulness as a therapeutic antidote, blending Ericksonian trance, metaphor play, neuroscience, humor, and self-disclosure. Through stories, demonstrations, and audience participation, she shows how compassionate, client-centered play can restore balance, awaken resilience, and help both therapists and clients laugh in the face of life’s darkest moments.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Psychotherapy | Brief Therapy | Therapist Development
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- Ana Almeida Melikian, MA
- Duration:
- 1:18:24
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2006
- Short Description:
- This course aims to provide a compass that helps to navigate within the different models of psychotherapy. This instrument comes in the form of a useful scheme with several levels: metaphysical, theoretical, technical and practical. Some classical models are going to be presented. Examples will be given of how to apply it to a model that the therapist recently became acquainted with, and time will be dedicated to reflect on our own clinical models.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Brief Therapy | Tailoring | Therapeutic Relationship | Therapist Development
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- Scott Shimabukuru, PhD | Les Blondino, LPC, LMFT
- Duration:
- 1:14:03
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2006
- Short Description:
- Even a very thoughtful therapeutic strategy can leave a client and therapist spinning their wheels with much effort and little progress. It is very easy then for both to try something new only to inadvertently do more of the same. Participants will learn the methods of the therapeutic u-turn which includes lateral thinking and tailoring of a new objective. Lecture, slides and video tape examples will be used to illustrate points.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Supervision | Therapist Development | Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques | Brief Therapy
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- David Barnum | Marne Sherman, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:19:30
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2006
- Short Description:
- Supervisors often find themselves in the role of "supervisor" because they have been identified as good clinicians, but typically have little formal training in supervision. While clinical skills are essential, the application of those skills in supervision can be quite unique. This workshop will focus on the application of Ericksonian principles to the practice of supervision at various levels of clinical development. Practical and ethical aspects of supervision also will be discussed.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Addiction | Brief Therapy
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- Michele Packard, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:18:42
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2006
- Short Description:
- In spite of concentrated efforts by federal agencies to remedy deficits outlined in the 1991 Institute of Medicine report on the state of substance abuse treatment in the US, and in spite of the fact that the best quality psychotherapy outcome and process studies have been conducted by addictions researchers, the field continues to be unable to implement its own Best Practices. This presentation will provide participants with a research-based menu of brief interventions that can be applied in a variety of settings.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Addiction Brief Therapy
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Anger | Anxiety | Brief Therapy | Communication
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- Kevin Humphrey, MA | Allan Sargent | Marilyn Sargent
- Duration:
- 1:15:09
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2006
- Short Description:
- Does your client have anyone in their life that can "get them," so that they feel like running away or punching the person out? What if you had the hemispheric integration tool that can change their initial response to that person or even to a situation? When clients remain centered, they will influence and set boundaries that will actually change the dynamics of the relationship. When your client is different the interactions have to evolve.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Aging and Mortality | Brief Therapy
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- Norma Barretta, PhD | Phillip Barretta, MA, MFT
- Duration:
- 1:18:31
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2006
- Short Description:
- This short course explores how brief, strength-based psychotherapy can support healthy aging, longevity, and quality of life in later years. Participants examine how humor, activity, social connection, and meaning-making protect against depression, isolation, and decline, even in the presence of illness or loss. The session blends clinical insight, real-world examples, and practical strategies for working with older adults, couples, and families, offering therapists concrete ways to promote resilience, engagement, and dignity across the aging process.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Anger | Brief Therapy | Couples Therapy | Relationships
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- Barton Goldsmith, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:10:40
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2006
- Short Description:
- 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.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Single-Session | Brief Therapy
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- Sandy Harper-Jacques, MN | Nancy McElheran, MN | Arnold Slive, PhD | Maureen Leahey, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:19:30
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2006
- Short Description:
- 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.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Brief Therapy Single Session
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Brief Therapy | Art and Creativity | Belief Systems
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- Joseph Sestito, MSSA, LISW-S
- Duration:
- 1:19:30
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2006
- Short Description:
- 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.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Art and Creativity | Brief Therapy | Meditation, Spirituality and Yoga | Music
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- Harvey Wasserman, MD
- Duration:
- 1:18:05
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2006
- Short Description:
- 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.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Aging and Mortality | Brief Therapy
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2006
- Faculty:
- Marilia Baker, MSW
- Duration:
- 1:40:17
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2006
- Short Description:
- This short course invites therapists to reflect on midlife as a turning point rather than a crisis. Through personal stories, audience dialogue, and Jungian-informed themes, it explores identity shifts, loss, vitality, aging, and the search for meaning as outer roles change and inner questions grow louder. The session offers a thoughtful, experience-near way to understand midlife transitions in both clients and clinicians, with an emphasis on resilience, generativity, and living more consciously into the second half of life
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Brief Therapy | Consciousness | Resources | Therapist Development | Unconscious Processes
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- James Rini | Melissa Rini, MS
- Duration:
- 1:24:29
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 11, 2008
- Short Description:
- Fuzzy Focus is a method that therapists can use to bring about quick and effective results. Fuzzy Focus is a process whereby unconscious resources are accessed by disrupting existing mind-sets, which are keeping alternative frames of reference unavailable. To use Fuzzy Focus effectively, therapists must be grounded with a coherent understanding of human nature and human consciousness. This workshop teaches the participant Fuzzy Focus as well as the theoretical framework needed to use Fuzzy Focus.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Brief Therapy | Communication | Stress | Therapist Development
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Seth Kadish, PsyD
- Duration:
- 1:12:50
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 11, 2008
- Short Description:
- The "Pointing Out Patterns" approach is a three-phase, nine-step process, which addresses the negative patterns of thinking and behavior that cause clients intrapsychic and interpersonal stress. The clinician rapidly observes and reveals these negative patterns, e.g., entitlement, intimidation, people-pleasing, etc., to the client, in a caring, supportive and straightforward manner, and assists the client in quickly diminishing, or eradicating negative patterns of thought and behavior.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Brief Therapy | Communication | Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques | Hypnosis | Language of Hypnosis
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Kate Cohen-Posey, MS
- Duration:
- 1:30:12
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 11, 2008
- Short Description:
- A person may say, "Don't ever . . . lie to me again!" or "You can . . . always tell me the truth." In either case, hypnotic language has been used to evoke undesirable or desirable behavior. This workshop will take Ericksonian linguistic patterns and export them into everyday environments. Exercises, role-plays, and brain storming will show how to make lasting changes in speech habits when addressing resistant family members and co-workers.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Brief Therapy | Children and Adolescent Therapy | Communication | Metaphors
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Marilyn Wedge
- Duration:
- 1:23:15
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 11, 2008
- Short Description:
- The language a therapist uses to conceptualize and treat a problem determines whether or not that problem can be resolved effectively. Plato's story of the cave, where the inhabitants see only shadows, is a useful metaphor for how the language of therapy can generate either confusion or clarity. This workshop will teach a method of effectively treating severe problems of children and adolescents, using an invariant opening question, strategic dialogue and metaphorical techniques.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Belief Systems | Brief Therapy
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- John Lentz, D. Min.
- Duration:
- 1:25:53
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 11, 2008
- Short Description:
- This presentation is a brief therapy approach for negative, self-defeating beliefs, designed to assist participants to recognize more of their own strengths. Based partly on Erickson's style of dealing with negative beliefs, this presentation is very respectful and teaches indirect and direct methods. since many of these types of beliefs have a secret that keeps them in place and "the secret" may be none of our business, this approach build this in to be more effective.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
Tags: Belief Systems Brief Therapy
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Communication | Metaphors | Brief Therapy | Reality Therapy
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Robert Wubbolding, EdD
- Duration:
- 1:25:22
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 11, 2008
- Short Description:
- Practicality and usability occupy the center of the reality therapy WDEP process. This workshop emphasizes advanced application through the use of metaphors designed to help clients determine the realistic attainability of their wants and the efficacy of their behaviors. Adrian Monk and Lieutenant Columbo provide assistance to therapist and client as they walk the path, untangle the web, and bring the unknown to light.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Brief Therapy | Children and Adolescent Therapy | Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) | Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Joseph Sestito, MSSA, LISW-S
- Duration:
- 1:28:27
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 11, 2008
- Short Description:
- In this workshop, you will learn about brief Ericksonian and CBT solutions for children, adolescents and the troubled child in you. I have pioneered these over the last decade during which I have done this type of therapy with children and adolescents on a full-time basis, and trained other clinicians working with this population. There are essentially two methods within each session that you conduct with your child or adolescent client which you will learn to do. These can bring back and begin to use immediately in your practice following this conference.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
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- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Community | Therapist Development
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Les Blondino, LPC, LMFT
- Duration:
- 1:27:13
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 11, 2008
- Short Description:
- Today, prudent therapists learn not only to influence client's interactions within their natural social context, but also influence their interactions with the helping system. In this workshop, the problematic relations between helping and family systems and strategies to change them will be described. Three areas will be explored: 1) humanistic approach to services; 2) correcting the family hierarchy; 3) boundary building.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price
- Average Rating:
- Not yet rated
- Topic Areas:
- Short Courses | Brief Therapy | Solution Oriented Approach
- Categories:
- Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2008
- Faculty:
- Ellen Quick, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:12:06
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 11, 2008
- Short Description:
- "Common factors" or "specific techniques" - what really creates lasting change in brief therapy? This course presents ways of using both components together in a flexible solution-focused approach. Through collaborative conversation, tailored to client preferences, this approach creates positive expectancy, inviting amplification of what works and changing what does not. When more is needed - in the spirit of - "if it doesn't work, do something different" - specific techniques are seamlessly introduced and integrated into solution-focused conversations.
- Price:
- $15.00 - Base Price