Forgiveness is a transformative tool that you can use to help your clients overcome depression, anxiety, rage and personal conflicts. Join Dr. David Kupfer and help your clients repair relationships, shed guilt and regulate emotion by strategically utilizing forgiveness techniques during the course of therapy. While we may think of forgiveness as a religious concept or a general personal trait, Dr. Kupfer has developed a method of teaching therapists to understand forgiveness as a useful set of specific teachable skills. Listen to this seminar recording and take home cognitive and emotional steps to help your clients forgive. Utilize strategies that teach compassion and emotional change necessary for forgiveness. Teach your clients to improve relationships and become more effective in couples therapy with key forgiveness methods. Named a “Top Therapist” in the Washington DC metro area by Washington Magazine, Dr. David Kupfer has made forgiveness a large part of his clinical work and is a sought after trainer on the topic. Objectives: Summarize how to provide a clear rationale to clients on how forgiveness can help them solve common problems that arise in therapy Describe a cognitive-behavioral conceptualization of the way in which anger and long-term grievances are developed and maintained Explain how to use cognitive therapy to help clients identify and alter the unenforceable rules that lead to unnecessary suffering Demonstrate active methods of teaching compassion, the emotional change that is a key to forgiveness Summarize a variety of ways to apply forgiveness to troubling couples therapy issues, including affairs List common obstacles to forgiveness and deal with them effectively Outline: Forgiveness As a Tool in Psychotherapy Forgiveness-what it is, what it isn’t Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Helping people overcome confusion about forgiveness Mindful acceptance as a basis for forgiveness Positive potential impact - mind, body, relationships Unresolved anger in common clinical syndromes Using Grievences With Your Clients We get hurt, inevitably “Life happens and we object.”-Fred Luskin Clinging to a wish for fairness Taking pain too personally Blaming others’ actions in the past for how we feel now Building the victim role through retelling of the grievance story Teaching Forgiveness to Your Client Identifying and changing your unenforceable rules Developing compassion for the perpetrator Writing a compassionate biography of the perpetrator Psychodrama: Action methods to put self in offender’s shoes Shifting from victim role to survivor/hero role by telling new story Grasping the paradox: How kindness to others can help ourselves Family of origin work: Finding and forgiving the original offender Detecting and confronting obstacles to learning forgiveness Utilizing Forgiveness with Specific Clinical Disorders Depression Anxiety disorders Adolescence Couples: Responding to affairs About the Speaker: David L. Kupfer, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist in Falls Church, Virginia. During his 30 years of private practice, Dr. Kupfer has focused on expanding cognitive-behavioral therapy into new territory. His clinical work has included the development of an expertise in applying CBT and mindfulness to anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, phobias, PTSD, and OCD. A skilled speaker, Dr. Kupfer has made presentations to national audiences at meetings of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America "On Experiential Approaches" and the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation "Embracing the Devil." Dr. Kupfer graduated from the University of Georgia's doctoral program in Clinical Psychology. He has combined academic roles at the University of Florida, Eastern Virginia Medical School, and Marymount University together with a full-time practice. In 2009, Washingtonian Magazine named him a "Top Therapist" in the Washington D.C. area. Over the last ten years, Dr. Kupfer has made forgiveness part of his clinical work. A child of holocaust survivors, Dr. Kupfer was inspired by meeting Eva Kor, a survivor who came to forgive Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who had used her and her twin sister as research subjects at Auschwitz. Fred Luskin, PhD., of the Stanford Forgiveness Project introduced him to a system of teaching forgiveness in CBT. Dr. Kupfer has presented forgiveness seminars to professional organizations in Virginia and federal government agencies. He has written about forgiveness for the Northern Virginia Academy of Clinical Psychologists Newsletter. Continuing Education Information: Price includes one CE Certificate. Additional certificates are available for an additional fee; please contact PESI Customer Service at 1-800-844-8260 for more details.
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