Multi-week live online course

How to Form an Authentic and Productive Connection with Patients Who Hold You at Arm’s Length

In this live online course, you will learn practical methods that will help you form a warm, productive connection with even the most challenging patients.

Heather Clague, M.D.

Daniel Mintie, LCSW

$360

6 Thursdays - Starts 10/13/2022 | 9-10:45am Pacific Time (12noon-1:45pm ET)

Offers 10.5 CE Hours*

Provides 12 TEAM-CBT Units towards Level 1, 2 or 3 Certification

Therapist level: beginner through advanced

Need-based scholarships available. Email certification@feelinggoodinstitute.com to apply

Course Overview


Many of us struggle to work productively with patients who resist forming a collaborative alliance. Such patients may engage in challenging behaviors such as repeatedly “forgetting” to do homework, passively declining the opportunity to get to work, avoiding openly sharing feelings, or saying that they are “just not able” to get out of bed. In this live online course, you will learn practical methods that will help you form a warm, productive connection with even the most challenging patients.

Attendance at all 6 sessions and completion of CE survey after this course is required to receive CE certificate of completion.

 

Learning Objectives
  1. After completing this course you will be able to: 
  2. Pinpoint your own role in creating Alliance Resistance 
  3. Name your own negative thoughts and feelings that can arise in the setting of Alliance Resistance 
  4. Describe common patterns of difficulty in the therapeutic alliance 
  5. Describe the advanced empathy technique called Changing the Focus 
  6. Use the advanced empathy technique called Multiple Choice Empathy 
  7. Explain the steps of the relationship technique called Forced Empathy 
  8. Identify Interpersonal Self-Defeating Beliefs using the Interpersonal Downward Arrow Technique 
  9. Address Alliance Resistance using the Interpersonal Downward Arrow Technique 
  10. Use the Gentle Ultimatum to address treatment-interfering behavior on the part of the patient. 
  11. Describe the Therapist from Hell technique 

 

Key Topics

Class 1: Pinpoint the therapist's role in creating resistance. Identify the therapist's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that can set up the patient to resist. Identify common patterns of challenges in the therapeutic relationship. 
Class 2: Advanced empathy techniques to address the alliance: Changing the Focus, Multiple Choice Empathy, and tactfully disclosing negative feelings 
Class 3: Exploring the Alliance: The Interpersonal Downward Arrow 
Class 4: Compassionate Accountability: Using the Gentle Ultimatum to address treatment-interfering behavior. 
Class 5: Role play methods to address challenges in the alliance: Forced Empathy 
Class 6: Role play methods to address challenges in the alliance: Therapist from Hell technique 

 


Anti-Discrimination Statement

Feeling Good Institute stands against discrimination. We believe in acceptance, inclusion, and equality. Discrimination against people based on identify status (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ability status, country of origin, religion) is harmful and not tolerated. Any hate speech or discriminatory practices will result in immediate removal from our training groups. This includes public statements or behaviors made outside of the trainings themselves.

Continuing Education Accreditation

*The Feeling Good Institute (FGI) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Feeling Good Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Feeling Good Institute Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0175.  FGI is a NAADAC Approved Education Provider. NAADAC Provider #149212. The Feeling Good Institute (FGI) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6750. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. FGI is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Feeling Good Institute, #1442 is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Feeling Good Institute maintains responsibility for this course. Ace provider approval period: 05/30/2021-05/30/2024.  Feeling Good Institute, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0678. A certificate of attendance will be emailed to attendees who attend 100% of the training within a week of completion of the workshop survey. Individuals with disabilities requiring special accommodations please contact Dr. Maor Katz at maor@feelinggoodinstitute.com.

Instructor Biographies

Mr Mintie has 27 years experience treating patients locally in North America and globally over the worldwide web.  He specializes in the high-speed treatment of anxiety, depression and trauma and teaches CBT at universities and training centers worldwide.  His new book "Wholehearted: Reclaiming Life After Trauma" will be published in 2018 by Inner Traditions publishing.  More information can be found at www.danielmintie.com

Heather Clague M.D. is a psychiatrist who specializes in TEAM-CBT, and sees patients in her office in Oakland, California as well as via online video for anyone in California.  A graduate of Yale University and the University of California, San Francisco, she has continued her training with Dr. David Burns and the Feeling Good Institute and is a level 4 TEAM-CBT therapist and trainer.  She has been teaching TEAM-CBT since 2016 and has been published on psychotherapy.net.  Additionally, she is the founder and director of Fully Present Improv which runs a school of improv in Berkeley, California.

Refund and Cancellation Policy

Refunds are available for cancelations outside of a 14-day window prior to the beginning of a training event or course. All refunds are subject to a $50 processing fee. Within a 14-day window prior to the beginning of a training event or course, no refunds are available. For cancelations within this window, credit may be applied towards a future similar training within a year of the original purchase date.