Working with the Cycle of Self-Destructive Behaviors in Traumatized Clients

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Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA Seminari e prodotti correlati

The Ferentz Institute

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Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, è un'esperta riconosciuta nel trattamento dei traumi basato sui punti di forza e de-patologizzato ed esercita privatamente da oltre 40 anni. È stata un membro di facoltà aggiunto in diverse università ed è la fondatrice del Ferentz Institute, che ora è al suo diciassettesimo anno di formazione continua per i professionisti della salute mentale e ha diplomato diverse migliaia di clinici grazie ai suoi due programmi di certificazione nel trattamento avanzato dei traumi. Nel 2009 è stata eletta "Assistente sociale dell'anno" dalla Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work. È autrice del libro Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician's Guide, ora alla sua seconda edizione, Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: Un libro di lavoro di speranza e guarigione e Trovare le sue pantofole di rubino: Lezioni di vita trasformative dal divano del terapeuta.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lisa Ferentz maintains a private practice and is the Founder and President of the Ferentz Institute. She receives royalties as a published author and is a consultant for Northwest Hospital. Lisa Ferentz receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lisa Ferentz is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the American Psychotherapy Association.

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Obiettivi

1. Analyze the four potential attachment patterns in parent-child development and the impact they have on psychological development.
2. Identify at least two reasons why clients engage in self-destructive behaviors and their treatment implications.
3. Apply a strengths-based perspective when treating clients who engage in self-harm.
4. Utilize at least two interventions to decrease negative cognitions and affect dysregulation fueling self-destructive behaviors.
5. Implement at least one tool to decrease shame in clients who engage in self-harm.

Schema

Attachment, Affect Regulation, and Psychological Development in a Traumatic Environment 

• Secure is not the norm – the predicament of attaching to unavailable or abusive caretakers 
• Affect dysregulation and the impact of hypo- and hyper-arousal 
• Brain-based navigation of developmental stressors and challenges 

Strengths-Based Assessment and Treatment of Self-Destructive Behaviors 

• Advantages to de-pathologizing acts of self-harm 
• Understand trauma-reenactment syndrome and the meta-communication of self-harm 
• Tips for helping clients share information about self-destructive behaviors 
• Explore triggers and how to navigate them with journaling and escape clauses 
• Self-compassion, re-framing, de-coding, and other interventions for negative cognitions 
• Install safety, enhance containment, and access somatic resources to stabilize affective dysregulation 
• Breathwork to decrease anxiety 
• Introduce choices and re-grounding to address dissociation 

Additional Clinical and Other Considerations 

• Working with endorphins produced by self-harm 
• Tools to address shame and decrease emotional vulnerability 
• Why standard safety contracts don’t work and what to do instead 
• Reducing power struggles in treatment 
• Limitazioni della ricerca e rischi potenziali 

Pubblico di riferimento

• Professionisti delle dipendenze 
• Consulenti 
• Terapisti del matrimonio e della famiglia 
• Psicologi 
• Psichiatri 
• Assistenti sociali 
• Altri professionisti della salute mentale