Using Visually-Mediated Strategies in Psychotherapy and Counseling: Interventions for Varied Clinical Populations

When

10/19/2018    
8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Where

Crowne Plaza
801 Greenwich Ave., Warwick, RI, 02886

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Presented by Mohiuddin Ahmed, Ph.D. and Charles Boisvert, Ph.D.

3 CEUs for LMHCs/3 CEs approved for Social Workers
Friday, October 19th, 2018
Registration: 8:00-8:30am
Presentation: 8:30-11:30am
at The Crowne Plaza: 801 Greenwich Ave. Warwick, RI 02886

Seminar includes buffet breakfast—Registration has closed, we hope to see you next month!

This training is designed to introduce clinicians to various multi-modal interventions and visually-enhanced counseling strategies.  Participants will learn, for example, how to use methods such as diagrams, white boards, goal-setting charts, computer-facilitated communication, writing exercises, and body-movement exercises to assist clients in more actively engaging in counseling sessions and developing effective coping strategies.    These various strategies will assist both clinicians and clients in better remembering, understanding, and using the information discussed in counseling sessions.  The strategies are designed to enable clients to become more actively engaged in the session by, for example, writing down information and using diagrams and worksheets to address therapy themes and goals.  Providing a multimodal communication format can also help collaboratively engage both the client and therapist in sharing information and creating a more focused and goal-directed therapeutic dialogue.  Participants will learn how to use these various visually-enhanced and multi-modal techniques in individual and group formats and in working with various clinical populations such as clients with severe and persistent psychosis (schizophrenia), behaviorally challenged children and adolescents, chronic substance abuse clients, geriatric clients, and traditional outpatient clients.  Particular attention will be given to helping clinicians learn practical strategies to access clients’ intact skills, strengths, and adaptive capabilities, and most importantly helping clinicians develop competency and confidence in working with varied clinical populations.  Clinicians will learn how to create a therapy “communication structure” that can assist clients, especially clients who have not responded optimally to traditional verbal therapy, in more easily processing the information exchanged during counseling sessions.

Learning Objectives:

Objective 1:  Participants will learn about research in allied counseling fields that support using visually-mediated strategies to facilitate communication in psychotherapy and counseling.

Objective 2: Participants will learn how to use various body movement relaxation exercises and how to use these exercises to help clients learn relaxation techniques and positive redirection strategies.

Objective 3: Participants will learn how to using various visually-aided methods such as diagrams, timelines, pie graphs, paper-pencil exercises, and computer-facilitated techniques  in working with varied clinical populations such as clients with schizophrenia, geriatric clients, substance abuse clients, behaviorally-challenged adolescents, and traditional outpatient clients.

Objective 4: Participants will learn how to use various diagrams to address common clinical problems such as anxiety, anger, and depression.

Objective 5: Participants will learn how use various brief assessment tools to measure outcome and to track clients’ progress in reaching their goals.

No refunds after Friday, October 12, 2018