Workshop 1
Uncover Strengths and Build Resilience: A Four-Step Model
Christine Padesky, Center for Cognitive Therapy, USA
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| In her keynote address at this World Congress, Padesky advocates the next frontier in cognitive behavioral therapy is learning how to foster development of positive human qualities. Development of positive qualities requires somewhat different therapy methods than repair of problems. More fundamentally, building positive qualities sometimes requires therapists to adopt a different therapy lens and philosophy.This workshop teaches and demonstrates Padesky and Mooney’s 4-step model for building and strengthening resilience. Their approach integrates knowledge from resilience research, traditional cognitive therapy methods, and constructive cognitive therapy approaches. Resilient people have skills to help them face and handle positive and negative life events so they are less likely to develop psychological difficulties. Resilience helps people persist in the face of obstacles and, when necessary, accept circumstances that cannot be changed the face of daily challenges. Participants learn to identify six main areas of competence that are characteristic of resilient individuals. Guided exercises allow participants to practice a structured search for client strengths that can serve as a basis for constructing a personal model of resilience. Skills taught in this workshop can help both clients and therapists become more resilient in the face of daily challenges. |
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Key Objectives:
1) Identify six areas of competence linked to resilience
2) Interview clients searching for existing strengths
3) Build a personal model of resilience in four steps
4) Practice methods to evoke symbolism and metaphor
5) Appreciate the role of acceptance in promoting resilience. |
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| Training Modalities: Live clinical demonstration, didactic instruction, participant role-plays, and group discussion. |
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| Christine Padesky, Ph.D., Center for Cognitive Therapy, Huntington Beach, California and Distinguished Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy is internationally renowned as a creative workshop instructor. In 2002, the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies voted her the "Most Influential International CBT Practitioner." Dr. Padesky authors CD and DVD training materials (www.padesky.com) and books translated into 17 languages including Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders, Clinician's Guide to Mind Over Mood, and Cognitive Therapy with Couples. BABCP voted her best selling cognitive therapy self-help book Mind Over Mood (www.mindovermood.com) the most influential cognitive therapy book of all time. |
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References: 1) Davis, N. J. (1999). Resilience: Status of the research and research-based programs [orking draft]. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services. As of July 2006, article available from the following site: www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/schoolviolence/5-28resilience.asp
2) Mooney, K.A., and Padesky, C.A. (2000). Applying client creativity to recurrent problems: Constructing possibilities and tolerating doubt. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly, 14(2), 149-161. Available from www.padesky.com/clinical_corner.htm |
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