Practical Clinical Interventions for Incentivizing Change: A Handy "Reference Guide" for All Therapists
Presented by Martha Stark, MD
Friday, September 27th, 2024
9-11am PT / 11am-1pm CT / 12-2pm ET
Event held online via Zoom, link to access provided upon registration.
Although you pride yourself on being able to offer your clients plenty of support, do you sometimes worry that you might not be providing them quite enough challenge?
My workshop will teach you to construct a series of growth-incentivizing interventions specifically designed to catalyze deep and enduring psychodynamic change in your clients – by facilitating their advancement, whatever their diagnosis and whatever their level of functionality, from less healthy rigidity (defense) to more healthy flexibility (adaptation). These interventions can be strategically formulated to offer just the right balance between anxiety-provoking challenge and anxiety-relieving support.
I will be providing you with a set of therapeutic tools – both minimally stressful and optimally stressful interventions – that you will be able to call upon during universally relevant, pivotal clinical moments with your clients.
These interventions will incentivize your client to (1) confront anxiety-provoking truths about her self, (2) grieve anxiety-provoking truths about the objects of her desire, (3) take ownership of anxiety-provoking truths about her relational self, and (4) access anxiety-provoking truths about her private self.
You will be receiving my newly created 18-page CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS GUIDE – a collection of concise but comprehensive information about the wide range of interventions that you will be able to use in order to provide both impetus and opportunity for your clients’ transformation and growth. You will also receive PDFs of the richly detailed PowerPoint Slides.
Zoom link will be available on course page in “My Courses” upon event registration.
This program, when attended in its entirety, offers 2.0 CEs for Psychologists, 2.0 IL CEUS for Counselors and Social Workers, or 2.0 BBS California CEUs for LPCCs, LPSWs, and LMFTs.
Although you pride yourself on being able to offer your clients plenty of support, do you sometimes worry that you might not be providing them quite enough challenge?
My workshop will teach you to construct a series of growth-incentivizing interventions specifically designed to catalyze deep and enduring psychodynamic change in your clients – by facilitating their advancement, whatever their diagnosis and whatever their level of functionality, from less healthy rigidity (defense) to more healthy flexibility (adaptation). These interventions can be strategically formulated to offer just the right balance between anxiety-provoking challenge and anxiety-relieving support.
I will be providing you with a set of therapeutic tools – both minimally stressful and optimally stressful interventions – that you will be able to call upon during universally relevant, pivotal clinical moments with your clients.
These interventions will incentivize your client to (1) confront anxiety-provoking truths about her self, (2) grieve anxiety-provoking truths about the objects of her desire, (3) take ownership of anxiety-provoking truths about her relational self, and (4) access anxiety-provoking truths about her private self.
You will be receiving my newly created 18-page CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS GUIDE – a collection of concise but comprehensive information about the wide range of interventions that you will be able to use in order to provide both impetus and opportunity for your clients’ transformation and growth. You will also receive PDFs of the richly detailed PowerPoint Slides.
After attending this intermediate-level program, participants will be able to:
- Summarize the reason that optimal stress provides both impetus and opportunity for deep and enduring psychodynamic change
- Design a growth-incentivizing, optimally stressful “conflict statement” (structural conflict)
- Construct a growth-incentivizing, optimally stressful “disillusionment statement” (structural deficit)
- Develop a growth-incentivizing, optimally stressful “accountability statement” (relational conflict)
- Create a growth-incentivizing, optimally stressful “facilitation statement” (relational deficit)
This program meets APA’s continuing education STANDARD 1.3: Program content focuses on topics related to psychological practice, education, or research other than application of psychological assessment and/or intervention methods that are supported by contemporary scholarship grounded in established research procedures.
This program meets APA’s continuing education GOAL 1: Program is relevant to psychological practice, education, and/or science.
General Admission: $30
The Chicago School Faculty/Staff/Alumni: $20
Students: $15
(Please email [email protected] for coupon code)
Refund Policy: 100% of tuition is refundable up to 48 hours before the program. Within 48 hours of the program, and at any point in Homestudy format, tuition is nonrefundable.
Martha Stark, MD / Retired Faculty, Harvard Medical School
Martha Stark, MD, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, is a holistic (adult and child) psychiatrist and integrative psychoanalyst in private practice in Boston, MA.
Martha is Lecturer on Psychiatry (part-time), Harvard Medical School; Co-Founder / Co-Director / Faculty, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, William James College; Faculty, Psychiatry Redefined; Faculty, Academy of Comprehensive Integrative Medicine; Adjunct Faculty, Smith College School for Social Work; Former Faculty, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Martha is an award-winning author of nine highly acclaimed books (including Relentless Hope: The Refusal to Grieve) on the integration of psychodynamic theory with clinical practice – several of which have become “required reading” in psychoanalytic training institutes and psychodynamic psychotherapy training programs both in the US and abroad.
Martha is the Originator / Developer of the Psychodynamic Synergy Paradigm: A C.A.R.E.S. Approach to Deep Healing.
Board Certified by the American Association of Integrative Medicine, Martha also contributes chapters to integrative medicine textbooks and articles to peer-reviewed toxicology / environmental medicine journals. In addition, she serves on the editorial / advisory boards of various holistic health publications and sits on the Advisory Board of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute.
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Target Audience: Mental health professionals and psychology students.
Psychologists. This program, when attended in its entirety, is available for 2.0 continuing education credits. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is also committed to conducting all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods.
Counselors/Clinical Counselors. This program, when attended in its entirety, is available 2.0 hours of continuing education. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) to provide continuing education programming for counselors and clinical counselors. License Number: 197.000159
Social Workers. This program, when attended in its entirety, is available for 2.0 hours of continuing education. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) to provide continuing education programming for social workers. License Number: 159.001036
MFTs, LPCCs, and LCSWs. Course meets the qualifications for 2.0 hour of continuing education credit for MFTs, LPCCs, and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. If you are licensed outside of California please check with your local licensing agency to to determine if they will accept these CEUs. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) to offer continuing education programming for MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and/or LCSWs. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is an accredited or approved postsecondary institution that meets the requirements set forth in Sections 4980.54(f)(1), 4989.34, 4996.22(d)(1), or 4999.76(d) of the Code.
Non Psychologists. Most licensing boards accept Continuing Education Credits sponsored by the American Psychological Association but non-psychologists are recommended to consult with their specific state-licensing board to ensure that APA-sponsored CE is acceptable.
*Participants must attend 100% of the program in order to obtain a Certificate of Attendance.
If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them. Please address questions, concerns and any complaints to [email protected]. There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE Sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants, or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest.