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One-Year Program

Ethics III: Dilemmas in Everyday Practice

Friday, May 9, 2008, Registration begins at 9:30 am, Program runs from

10:00 am - 1:15 pm

Community Council, 400 Amherst St., Nashua, NH

Elizabeth Dorsey, MSW, Cert. Psya.
Cost: $70

Mental health clinicians practice ethics in every interaction with a client. Each contact offers an opportunity to injure the client or to endanger the treatment. Each contact also offers the possibility of contributing to the goals of the individual. Clinicians are subjected to the pressures for destructive action from external sources, from the presentation of the client, and from within themselves. Participants in this workshop will identify situation which evoke this potential for non-therapeutic action in the everyday practice of psychotherapy. Consturctive alternatives will be discussed.

Call 617-277-3915 or email bgsp@bgsp.edu for more information or to register.

A Modern Analytic Approach to Working With Difficult Patients

Saturday, May 10, 2008, 10 am - 12 pm

Linda Sklar, LICSW, Cert. Psya.

Cost: $30

Participants will learn through Case Presentations ADVANCED TECHNIQUES for working in the treatment setting with:

1. intense feelling states
2. demands and acting out
3 .symbolic communication
4.  treatment destructive behavior 

Modern analytic techniques go ‘beyond interpretation’ and focus on opening up pathways where the patient is freed to voice the emotionally significant story of his/her life.  Innovations in modern analytic technique are especially useful for those patients who have difficutlty limiting  destructive action and developing constructive relationships.

Participants are invited to bring in case material to be discussed.

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