Effective Tools for Working with Serious Mental Illness
- Speaker:
- Steve Shapiro, PhD
- Duration:
- 2 Hours
- Language:
- Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
- Copyright:
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Mar 21, 2025
- Product Code:
- NOS096453
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
It’s unfortunate, but severely mentally ill clients are the ones we frequently feel least able to help. Instead, they often find themselves marginalised within our field, medicated for chronic mental health symptoms without therapy. In this workshop, you’ll be introduced to powerful ways you can help fragile clients with serious trauma histories—or those who experience psychoses—to develop a more mature emotional infrastructure. Whether you’re an experienced practitioner or new to experiential dynamic therapies like ISTDP or AEDP, you’ll come away with new tools and interventions and a better understanding of how to help clients suffering from PTSD, personality disturbance, and severe and persistent mental illness. We’ll also touch on related issues such as splitting and projection, paranoia, hallucinations, disassociation, mind and body phenomena, suicide, therapeutic confrontation, and management of psychiatric emergencies. You’ll learn to:
- Use defence restructuring and anxiety regulating methods to meet clients where they are
- Do deeper work with clients through the development of increased emotional capacity and relatedness
- Help clients tolerate difficult and previously forbidden emotional conflicts
- Help clients recognise the implicit emotional schemas keeping them stuck
Credit
Speaker
Steve Shapiro, PhD Related seminars and products
Steve Shapiro, PhD, is a psychologist, certified IEDTA teacher, trainer, and supervisor, and a founding member of the AEDP institute with over 20 years of clinical and teaching experience. His work as the director of an emergency psychiatric hospital for over 16 years has informed his approach to challenging patients with a history of trauma, a high degree of resistance, or excessive anxiety and dysregulation. He trains clinicians internationally.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Steven Shapiro maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Institute, the MCP Hahnemann University, and the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizaitons.
Non-financial: Steven Shapiro is an author with Psychotherapy Networker. He is a fellow with the Pennsylvania Psychological Association.
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Program Information
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Objectives
- Recognise and regulate markers for excessive anxiety when working with clients with a trauma history.
- Modify (restructure) defences like splitting & projection to encourage more adaptive functioning.
- Explore previously forbidden material safely using a modified format in those with a history of borderline or psychotic level symptoms and functioning.
Outline
LEVELS OF STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONING:- Neurotic, borderline & psychotic levels
- What is the limiting factor: defence or anxiety?
- Reality testing
- Relatedness
VIDEO DEMONSTRATION
- Microanalysis of principles covered
- Group deliberate practice
- Facilitated discussion
CLINICAL APPLICATION OF THEORY
- Highlight and invite (join and challenge)
- Analysing and relating
UNDERSTANDING PSYCHODIAGNOSIS
- Anxiety discharge pathway parameter
- Anxiety tolerance parameter
- Defence level parameter
MOMENT TO MOMENT TRACKING OF THE PROCESS
- Using a modified approach (graded format)
- Restructuring defences
- Regulating anxiety and increasing emotional capacity
- Therapist factors
- Risks and limitations of the model
- Need for therapist training
VIDEO DEMONSTRATION
- Microanalysis of principles covered
- Group deliberate practice
- Facilitated discussion
Target Audience
- Counsellors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Social Workers
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Addiction Counsellors
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