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Match various personality types with the types of personae that individual tend to adopt in groups
Identify the clinical needs that the various personality types bring to a therapy group
Match an individual's personality type with that person's leadership style in a group setting
Conduct a supervision group paying attention to the conscious and unconscious material that arises in the both the group process and content
Define specific areas in the conduct of therapy groups that will become focal points in group supervision
Conduct group supervision in a way that reduces the threat to the case presenter and focus on countertransference and parallel process
Identify theoretical choices at decision points for the therapist during a session
Explore addictions and concurrent guilt and shame
Identify cognitive processes and belief systems that contribute to ones limitations
Discuss the process of forgiveness and acceptance
Discuss the desire to impact others through writing and what is returned through endorsement and recognition by the other members of the writing group
Critique other members of the writing group so they may learn about themselves from writing
Utilize exercises for eliciting and learning from manuscripts submitted
Summarize the primary process in this parenting challenge
Compare and contrast similar experiences of other parents
Discuss how to lessen some of the emotional pain in this process
Differentiate between boundary crossings & boundary violations
Summarize standard of care regarding dual relationships
Apply critical thinking to their ethical decision making process
Contrast the difference between first and second steps in a person's change process
Explain the importance of taking risks in order to get more of what they need and want out of life
Describe how to support and guide clients through the scary process of change
Identify and articulate the personal and professional issues depicted in the series
Identify how these issues are reflected in our work with patients
Explain how to apply what we have learned from this exploration to our growth as psychotherapists
Discuss the history and research pertaining to Animal Assisted Psychotherapy (AAP)
Explain how their own pets serve as a source of intimacy, play and healing
Explain and examine the ways a pet impacts the therapeutic environment
Discuss the healthy to unhealthy narcissism continuum
Describe the dilemmas people face navigating along this continuum
Evaluate how to accept and love themselves and others in the process of group modality
Describe a collaborative, intersubjective approach to the therapeutic relationship
Discuss the clinical value of collaboratively processing the patient’s experiences of the therapist’s limitations and failures
Identify their own counter-transference issues related to finiteness and idealization and how those issues impact their clinical work
Describe the various decision making processes
Identify how messages related to choices are internalized and become shaping of character and personality
Utilize skills to work therapeutically with the fall-out of pivotal decisions
Discuss the relationship of the psychotherapist’s baseline emotional/psychological sensitivity as antecedent to intervention
Demonstrate the fluidity of transference and countertransference
Discuss the role judgmental responses amplify patient resistance and/or exodus from psychotherapy
Identify their needs for being able to foster what is “just right” in their interpersonal relationships
Identify their needs for being able to foster what is “just right” within the community
Identify the tension between their needs for autonomy and their needs for community
Outline the challenges related to parent-child intimacy that might be encountered in clinical consultation
Practice skills to help clients explore and resolve conflicts related to parent-child intimacy
Explain how norms about parent-child intimacy are formed
Describe how heart intelligence can be harnessed to improve general functioning
Perform at least one quick heart based technique to reduce stress
Compare specific methods for changing unwanted attitudes
Identify the true nature of “dual” or complex relationships, with their dangers and opportunities
Compare the myths about these relationships with the realities that occur almost daily
Discuss the rational and ethical management of these relationships through supervision, consultation and personal psychotherapy
Compare and contrast several defense mechanisms
Practice a supportive therapeutic technique
Describe the process of character development
Discuss the dynamics of favoritism in the group, in their practice, in their family
Describe our experiences with favoritism as influencing who we are
Discuss favoritism in the context of psychological theory
Describe key biological and psychological factors affecting sexual passion
Describe ways to help patients explore and enhance their sex life
Identify personal issues that affect their ability to do effective therapy in the area of passionate sex
List therapeutic strategies that are necessary in treating adults with ADHD
Identify behavior patterns of therapists with ADHD that might limit or deepen the work
Describe strategies that are helpful to the therapist with ADHD become a more effective therapist
Discuss the foundations of the initial impressions we have of clients, including the first phone call and first session
Identify how our own unique developmental histories with the processes of idealization and mirroring impact on how we experience our clients as wonderful, difficult, dulling, etc.
Explain how we can work through our own distortions of clients that allows fuller appreciation of each client
Discuss psychoactive medications
Discuss and identify ethical considerations relating to prescribing medications
Identify social and economic factors influencing the prescribing of psychoactive medications
Compare the different definitions of ‘I’ and ‘Me’
Discuss the effect of compassionate listing in the process of dialogue
Apply the definitions of ‘I’ and ‘me’ to the process of compassionate listening
List the contents of the Ethical Principals of Psychologists and Code of Conduct of the American Psychological Association and discuss the application of the Code to corrections
Identify personality characteristics common to incarcerated women that when combined with therapist traits may result in ethical infractions
Identify ethical dilemmas and pitfalls common to corrections and list ways to resolve and avoid them
Compare idealization with the reality of being in a relationship
Discuss the limitations imposed on marriage and/or friendship by seeking the ideal other
Explain how therapy can be influenced through idealization by the therapist
Practice and teach exercises that will heighten their and their clients awareness of
Explain how to reframe clients’ negative actions into positive actions
Utilize a client's senses and actions to create fulfilling contact
Find commonalities in the current life stories of single women 55 and older around the issue of mating
Appraise the needs, wants and desires around mating at this stage of life
Explore alternatives for enhancement of thriving lives
Demonstrate the relationship between stone carving and psyche
Demonstrate how stone carving is a psychological metaphor for life
Identify the characteristics which define the dynamics of the creative process as it applies to Jungian theory
Identify common obstacles to group development
Explain how to remove obstacles and how to help others to remove them
Explain the ways his or her own narcissistic needs might impact the use of an animal in psychotherapy
Make therapeutic decisions about using an animal with a particular patient
Name the ways in which issues of finiteness and idealization impact group process
Identify how other therapists manage issues of finiteness and idealization in their clinical work
Integrate issues of finiteness and idealization into their ongoing clinical approach
Discuss how focusing on intrapsychic and interpersonal exchanges within a community of peers provides support for their personal evaluation as well as development of the community as a whole
Explain why current intrapsychic and interpersonal exchanges within a community of peers provides support for finding out what is “just right”
Discuss why separating is “just right” for them and at other times joining is “just right” for them
Summarize why honest dialogue supports finding what is “just right in interpersonal relations
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