Learning Objectives:
If you have clients that are challenging and resistant, you are not alone. Client resistance is a common barrier that EMDR therapists face. This presentation will address a number of new and existing strategies for working with resistant adolescents and adults that can be used throughout the 8 phases of EMDR therapy. Elyse Harper, LMFT loves working with hostile and resistant clients and finds working with adolescents ‘easy’. This training will offer many ideas to successfully work with our most difficult-to-engage clients.
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Describe strategies for engagement with adolescent clients.
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Describe common therapist pitfalls in working with resistant clients.
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Identify strategies to introduce and engage resistant clients in EMDR processing
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List one EMDR processing strategy to use with resistant clients.
Course curriculum
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Stuck! Now What?
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Stuck? Now what?! with Elyse Harper, LMFT
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Resistance = Fear
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Dissociation
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Window of Tolerance
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Closed vs Open Floor Plan
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Preparation Phase
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Client or Therapist Avoidance?
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Characteristics of Adolescents
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Video: Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael - Dinky and Elizabeth
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7 Deadly Sins of Working with Teens
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Working With Parents
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Refusal to Participate
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Relationship Building
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Five Finger Death Punch - "Trouble"
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The Wall
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The Cube Test
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Parts Work
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EMDR Pitch to Parents and Teens
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Video: Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael - Dinky's Poetry
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What Do Teens Want?
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Using Metaphors
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Interventions
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Client Session
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Processing Client Session
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Script: Demonstration & PDF
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Live demonstration
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References
FREE PREVIEW
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Continuing Education
EMDRIA Credits: 3 (#15007-DL50)
CE Credits: 3
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$119.99
Regular price
Instructor(s)

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Elyse Harper
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