Working With Multiproblem Clients: A Seminar for Advanced Clinicians and Hardworking Beginners
What do you DO when…..(?)
The clients) have already seen several therapists before coming to see you and nothing has helped
The client is an adolescent who has dropped out of school and doesn’t want to go back
The case file is 10 inches thick
The client’s boyfriend keeps beating her up and she doesn’t want to leave him
The client works in a hostile, emotionally toxic environment and needs to keep his job
The couple wants to stay together but they have completely opposite goals
Whenever you ask a question, the client says “I don’t know”
This seminar will focus on nurturing participant’s optimal development of effective approaches to working effectively with involuntary, court mandated, angry, and despairing client and those experiencing multiple problems and/or history of repeated relapse. Special emphasis will be given to kindling therapeutic creativity and inviting realistic shared optimism in a manner that leaves clients feeling motivated and therapist feeling less tired at the end of the workday!
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to list at least 2 principles behind the “death of resistance”
- Participants will be able to describe at least one therapeutic technique to offer when nothing seems to work
- Participants will be able to list at least 2 principles for working effectively with chronic clients
- Participants will be able to list at least 2 principles for working effectively with depressed or hostile clients, co-workers, supervisors
- Participants will be able to list at least 2 principles for working effectively with aggressive or hostile agency or managed care representatives
- Participants will be able to describe a technique for lessening the after hours impact of stressful work environments.
For more information, contact Yvonne Dolan, yvonne@solutionfocused.net
or call +708-782-2021 x 1
Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy, PO Box 9261, Highland, IN 46322, phone & fax 708-782-2021
