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Digital Seminar

2-Day Experiential Internal Family Systems Therapy Workshop


Speaker:
Frank Anderson, MD
Duration:
12 Hours 32 Minutes
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Dec 02, 2021
Product Code:
POS058545
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

This unique training by expert clinician, lead IFS trainer, and author Frank Anderson, MD, will give you a deep dive into the theory, principles and practical applications of one of the most cutting-edge models in psychotherapy.

Learn and practice the steps of IFS therapy and begin treating anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and childhood attachment wounds in ways you didn’t think possible.

You’ll be able to leave this intensive workshop with theory, skills, and practice allowing you to begin to use IFS therapy immediately with clients.

This immersive workshop will allow you to get to know yourself and your internal system better. It will help you better understand your triggers and begin to clear the blockages that get in the way with your most challenging clients.

After completing this workshop, you will be able to help your clients:

  • Minimize their symptom, overwhelming feelings, and challenging behaviours.
  • Have less inner conflict and develop a better relationship with their internal system.
  • Have a greater More understanding of the origins of trauma, anxiety and other issues.
  • Be more self-accepting and emotionally aware.
  • Better able to build healthy relationships in their lives.

As a clinician, you’ll feel:

  • More comfortable in your ability to treat a wider range of clinical diagnoses.
  • Less overwhelmed in your clinical practice even with your more challenging clients.
  • More hopeful for your clients and their clinical outcomes.
  • More relaxed, comfortable, and confident at work.

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



Canada Credit - *

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Program content is reviewed periodically per accrediting board rules for currency and appropriateness for credit. Credit approvals are subject to change. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. 
For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact info@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before purchase.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

 


Canada Credit - ---

Earn up to 12.5 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


Canada Credit - Canadian Counsellors and Psychotherapists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This self-study activity is approved for 12.5 credit hours.


Canada Credit - Social Workers - National ASWB ACE

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2023 - January 27, 2026. Social workers completing this course receive 12.5 Clinical continuing education credits.

 

Course Level: Intermediate Format: Recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

Canadian Social Workers: Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.


Canada Credit - Canadian Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 12.5 self-study continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement


Canada Credit - Other Professions

This self-study activity qualifies for 12.5 continuing education clock hours as required by many national and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.


US National Boards - Addiction Counselors - NAADAC

This self-study course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming.

This self-study course offers 12.5 continuing education contact hours in the Counseling Services skill group. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.



Handouts

Speaker

Frank Anderson, MD's Profile

Frank Anderson, MD Related seminars and products


Frank Anderson, MD, completed his residency and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He specializes in the treatment of trauma and dissociation and is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy.

Dr. Anderson is a lead trainer at the IFS Institute with Richard Schwartz and maintains a long affiliation with, and trains for, Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center. He serves as an advisor to the International Association of Trauma Professionals (IATP) and was the former chair and director of the Foundation for Self-Leadership.

Dr. Anderson has lectured extensively on the Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation and wrote the chapter “Who’s Taking What” Connecting Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Internal Family Systems for Trauma in Internal Family Systems Therapy – New Dimensions. He co-authored a chapter on What IFS Brings to Trauma Treatment in Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy, and recently co-authored Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual.

His most recent book, entitled Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems was released on May 19, 2021.

His memoir, To Be Loved, was released on May 7, 2024.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Frank Anderson maintains a private practice. He is the Executive Director of the Foundation for Self Leadership and has employment relationships with The Trauma Center and The Center for Self Leadership. Dr. Anderson receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Frank Anderson is a member of the New England Society Studying Trauma and Dissociation and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product..

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Objectives

  1. Formulate why Internal Family Systems is a nonpathologizing treatment model and the clinical benefits derived from that approach.
  2. Practice the steps of the Internal Family Systems model to incorporate into treatment planning.
  3. Teach clients how to embrace their symptomology to improve self-awareness and emotion regulation.
  4. Perform an IFS-informed clinical assessment to better reveal the root origin on anxiety and depression symptoms.
  5. Demonstrate the steps of IFS method that can help clients avoid being “hijacked” by intense emotions and trauma symptomology.
  6. Support the clinical benefit of shifting away from cognitive intellectual interpretation to be more emotional connection and physical embodiment.
  7. Differentiate the three steps of treating the traumatic wound and practice guiding client in the process.
  8. Appraise the nature of the research and evidence-base for IFS and evaluate risks and limitations.
  9. Differentiate the value of empathy and compassion in the therapeutic process for improved treatment outcomes.
  10. Propose an IFS focused view of countertransference that is more accessible for clinicians to manage in the therapeutic process.
  11. Integrate Internal Family Systems with other forms of therapy such as EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, CPT, and DBT to create more targeted treatment plans.
  12. Investigate how clinicians can have their own “parts” step back during the therapy process to create greater perspective and remove blockages in therapy.

Outline

INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS (IFS)
The Essentials of the Model
  • Comprehensive, compassionate, nonpathologizing treatment approach
  • Paradigm-shifting perspective on “psychopathology”
  • Easily integrated into other therapeutic modalities
  • Teach clients to access inner wisdom and selfcompassion to heal anxiety, depression, addictions, and traumatic wound
  • The range of different parts
  • Self Energy
The IFS Technique
Step 1: Identifying Diagnoses & Symptoms as Parts
  • Assess the diagnoses: PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse and eating disorders
  • Apply Meditation practices
  • Working with protective parts the 6 F’s
    • Finding the symptom
    • Focusing on its fear
    • Separating the person (self) from the symptom
    • Becoming curious about it
    • Find the real story behind the symptom
PRACTICE AND GUIDED EXPERIENTIAL ACTIVITY
Step 2: Gain Access to Internal Strengths & Resources for Healing
  • Moving from defensiveness to curiosity
  • The difference between empathy and compassion
  • Foster “internal attachment” work
  • The “Self” of the therapist-countertransference redefined
GUIDED EXPERIENTIAL ACTIVITY
Step 3: Dealing with Conflicts and Polarizations
  • Identifying parts that conflict with each other
  • Validate both perspectives
  • Resolve polarities with Self energy
GUIDED EXPERIENTIAL ACTIVITY
Step 4: Treating the Traumatic Wound
  • Three phases of healing:
    • Witness the pain
    • Remove the wounded part out of the past
    • Let go of the feelings, thoughts, and beliefs
IFS IN ACTION: DEMONSTRATION OF THE HEALING PROCESS
Integrate IFS into your Treatment Approach
  • EMDR, DBT, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy
  • Integrate IFS with other treatment modalities your current clinical approach
Therapist Parts
  • Countertransference through the IFS lens
  • Identifying parts that get activated and get in the way
GUIDED EXPERIENTIAL ACTIVITY

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Physicians
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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