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• Archive: Topic Areas:Psychotherapy | WorkshopCategory:Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2012Faculty:Stephen Gilligan, PhDDuration:2:49:06Format:Audio OnlyOriginal Program Date :Dec 08, 2012 Description Description: This workshop presents the Ericksonian and Self-Relations Psychotherapy approach to human states of suffering: depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction, etc. This practical and positive approach assumes that each core human experience has equivalent potential to be positive or negative, depending on the human relationship to it; and thus focuses on how problems may be transformed to resources by skillful human connection.
• Multiple techniques and examples for will be given, along with an exercise and demonstration.
• Educational Objectives: Identify a therapeutic approach that accepts and transforms symptoms and problems, rather than trying to get rid of them.
• Describe and demonstrate three techniques by which a person can change a negative state to a positive one.
• Identify three methods to to safely work with negative emotional states in psychotherapy.