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• Process-Focused Therapy: A Guide for Creating Effective Outcomes

  • When
    Friday, April 16, 2021
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    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Online ZOOM (Will be recorded)
  • Spaces left
    27

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  Presenter: Robert Taibbi

  Category 1 | 2 CEUs 

  In this workshop we will look at clinical process from 3 interlocking perspectives: Common problems arising from faulty process – what can’t the client do, their stuckpoints; the goal of therapy and sessions on helping clients correct their faulty process; ways to maximizing the effectiveness of session by avoiding replicating faulty process and problems within the session, and intentional creating corrective emotional experiences so that clients leave feeling differently than when they came in.

  To do this we’ll look at the 4 common stuckpoints for individuals and the 3 common stuckpoints for couples and families. We’ll then discuss treatment maps for each of these problems so that you can hit the ground running, as well as identify what you want to do and not do in the session process to avoid problem-replication and create positive experiences. Finally, we’ll look at Therapy as Performance, the tools and tips for maximizing the session process. If you are relatively new to therapy or a seasoned clinician who wants to look at process in a new way, this workshop will help you be more intentional and creative.

  Workshop Objectives:

  By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify the 4 most common stuckpoints for individuals
  2. Describe the concept of emotional wounds
  3. Discuss how to use voice and gestures with the session process
  4. Describe how to use the technique of the ideal voice

  About the Presenter: 

  Robert Taibbi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 46-years of experience primarily in community mental health working with children, couples, and families as a clinician, supervisor, and clinical director.

  He is the author of 11 books in the areas of anxiety, family and couple therapy, brief therapy, clinical supervision, including Clinical Social Work Supervision: Process & Practice as well as over 300 magazine and journal articles. He also writes an online column for Psychology Today entitled Fixing Families that has received over 12 million hits.

  In addition, Robert provides training both nationally and internationally in couple therapy, family therapy, brief therapy, and clinical supervision. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina and has served as an adjunct professor at several universities. He is currently in private practice in Charlottesville, VA.

  
  

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• Social Work Licensing Workshop for NCSSS GRADUATING Students!

  • When
    Saturday, April 17, 2021
  •  
    8:30 AM - 5:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Online ZOOM

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  Cosponsored between National Catholic School of Social Service (NCSSS) and Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work (GWSCSW) | one-day training program led by Corey Beauford, LICSW

  There are no continuing education credits for this training.  The training will be recorded and available on the GWSCSW website after the workshop.

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• Therapy Boot Camp: Brief, Action-Oriented Treatment of Couples & Families

  • When
    Friday, May 21, 2021
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Online ZOOM (Will be recorded)
  • Spaces left
    46

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  Presenter: Robert Taibbi

  Category 1 | 2 CEUs 

  Like it or not statistics indicate that most couples and families only attend a few sessions of therapy. If you are to be effective, you need to hit the ground running. In this course we’ll discuss how to do exactly that – how to quickly set goals and shape the first session, how to quickly build rapport and assess, how to develop treatment maps for common couple and family presenting problems, how to use homework. We’ll walk through the opening sessions, tell you what to do, but more importantly what not to do. If you are new to couple and family therapy, this will provide a model on which to build. If you are an experienced, you’ll leave feeling challenged and creative.

  Workshop Objectives:

  By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the 4 essentials of the boot camp approach
  2. Define 4 ways of changing the emotional climate in a session
  3. Explain the 4 sources of resistance
  4. Define Bowen’s differentiated self
  5. Describe the role of childhood emotional wounds

  About the Presenter: 

  Robert Taibbi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 46-years of experience primarily in community mental health working with children, couples, and families as a clinician, supervisor, and clinical director.

  He is the author of 11 books in the areas of anxiety, family and couple therapy, brief therapy, clinical supervision, including Clinical Social Work Supervision: Process & Practice as well as over 300 magazine and journal articles. He also writes an online column for Psychology Today entitled Fixing Families that has received over 12 million hits.

  In addition, Robert provides training both nationally and internationally in couple therapy, family therapy, brief therapy, and clinical supervision. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina and has served as an adjunct professor at several universities. He is currently in private practice in Charlottesville, VA.

  
  

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