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Trauma, Affect Dysregulation and Shame by Lisa Ferentz

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If you believe that most clients who engage in self-destructive behaviors have Borderline Personality Disorder, you may be missing the fact that they have pain and trauma narratives – and you are not approaching treatment in the best way to create healing.

If you think that the choice to cut as opposed to burn – to starve as opposed to binge – is arbitrary, it isn’t. You need to help clients re-frame their behaviors as the inevitable byproducts of affect dysregulation and shame, and help them embrace new ways of addressing them in therapy.

Join international trauma expert and author, Lisa Ferentz, LCSW, for her much praised, experiential seminar and start altering your practice in treating trauma, shame and self-destructive behaviors.

Lisa will give you her proven approach that incorporates psycho-education that teaches your client new coping strategies that help them:

Reduce their shame and self-blame narratives
Self-soothe and re-claim their affect regulation skills
Short-circuit overwhelming thoughts and feelings

Experience one of the top-selling continuing education seminars available on trauma and shame.

The Connection: Attachment and Affect Regulation

The four attachment styles and their impact on child development
The challenge of attaching to unavailable or abusive caretakers
The connection between trauma, attachment, and the self-narrative of shame
Living in a state of affect dysregulation and the impact of hypo- and hyper-arousal
Exploring the dynamics of attachment and affect regulation through videos

Working from a Strengths-Based Perspective

Advantages to de-pathologizing destructive behaviors
The impact this paradigm has on the therapeutic relationship

Trauma Re-Enactment

Meta-communication of self-harm
“Telling” without talking
Why acts of self-harm are not arbitrary
Why your clients hurt themselves

Breaking the Cycle of Self-Destructive Behaviors

What sets the behavior in motion
Why it escalates
What reinforces it

Extinguish Self-Destructive Acts: Creative Interventions

The connection between trauma, attachment, and the self-narrative of shame
The “management” of self-harming behavior
Journaling to understand triggers
Re-framing cognitive distortions
Using guided imagery for untenable thoughts and feelings
Safe place imagery and containment
The power of incorporating breath work
Using the body for somatic resourcing and grounding
Short-circuiting flashbacks and dissociation

Why Standard Safety Contracts Don’t Work and What to Do Instead

Incorporating CARESS – a unique proven approach
Eliminating the power struggles in treatment
Processing clients’ artwork

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