Brief Therapy Approaches: Working With Long Term Clients

Speaker: Dr. Eric King

 

Date: October 15th

 

Time: 9 a.m. - 4::00 pm

 

Location: The Marconi Club, 120 Clarke Rd, London, ON

 

Parking: Available on site.

 

Cost: Early Bird Special (Before Sept. 30th) $145 plus hst (Group Rates 3 or more) $135 plus hst, Regular Rate $155 plus hst

*A CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE WILL BE ISSUED*

About This Workshop

Brief therapies have become accepted as viable approaches for working with a range of individual and family problems. Yet, many agencies and practitioners have hesitated to consider such collaborative and competency-based approaches with what are viewed as more complex and “pathological” systems. This includes: families with members having major psychiatric disorders, families with multiple agency involvements, families with members in hospital or residential placements, and families with intergenerational patterns of poverty, violence and/or abuse.

 

With these populations a small percentage of clients can require a great amount of limited resources. Clearly no one approach is ideal for dealing with multi-stressed and multi-challenged families. This workshop will draw on ideas from a range of brief therapies and other relevant approaches which are useful for engaging overwhelming family systems in a manner that maintains hope, focus and manouverability. A consultation frame will be discussed as a better fit with some attachment styles. Videotape and exercises will be used to highlight concepts relevant to improving collaboration, working with ambivalence about change, and contracting for workable goals when chaos appears to reign.

 

About the Speaker

Eric King, MSW, RSW   Director of Family Programs of Pine River Institute

 

Eric has been passionate about his work with individuals and families throughout his career. He has an extensive background in systemic and strength-based family therapy in a range of contexts including: mental health clinics, residential treatment centers, schools, and hospitals settings. He has maintained a private practice with families, couples and individuals since 1990. In addition to his role at Pine River, Eric is clinical director at Brief Therapy Training Centres - International operating out of the Hincks-Dellcrest Institute, a post-graduate training centre for mental health professionals. He is also the residential training coordinator at the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre, a multi-disciplinary children’s mental health centre, where he has been a senior out-patient social worker for the past 23 years. Eric has been a trainer of mental health professionals in brief and narrative therapy since 1985. He co-leads two year-long clinical extern programs and offers clinical training throughout Canada and the U.S. He has a cross-appointment with the Department of Child Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.Eric’s current interests include multiple family therapy, adventure-based therapy, and mindfulness-based approaches to adolescent anxiety and depression.

Course Objectives

Areas to be addressed will include:

• How to proceed when despair appears to preclude goal setting
  
  
• Naming and addressing constraints to change
  
  
• Challenging intergenerational family scripts using genograms and time lines
  
  
• Scanning for larger systems issues (dealing with multiple and conflicting goals/mandates)
  
  
• Practices for “shining the light” on small changes and pivotal events
  
  
• Accessing beliefs spiritual considerations (exploring beliefs, finding faith)
  
  
• Temporal considerations in systems that are “frozen in time”
  
  
• Using colleaguial consultations and teams to stay on track

Registration

Registration is limited. Please register early to avoid disappointment.

 

Payment may be made by cheque, payable to Solutions on Site. Cheque must accompany registration form. Registration by fax, phone or e-mail accepted if cheque is received in the mail within two weeks of registration. Post dated cheques not acceptable for early registration.

 

 

Rates:

 

Early Bird Registration (Before Sept 30th, 2010)
$145.00 CDN plus hst

 

Regular Rate (After Sept 30th)
$155.00 CDN plus hst

 

Group Rates (3 or more)
$135.00 CDN plus hst

For group rates, please contact us for an invoice and total quote.

 

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