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107: Visualization Techniques For Addressing Attachment Patterns, Depression, Anxiety, and Anger

CE Hours 3

About this course

What, from a couple therapy perspective, are the various diagnostic pictures in which anger is a prominent feature? Identifying psychopathologies that have been generating anger in the marriage enables both the therapist and the two spouses to create more effective responses to these challenges. This course segment clarifies multiple such contributors to anger in the household, and suggests ways to manage them. "Close your eyes." With this brief suggestion, a therapist can launch potent visualization treatment procedures. Dr. Heitler's innovative 3P's visualization for lifting depressive reactions and the Concerns Dump technique for removing anxiety work well in both individual and couple treatment formats.

Learning Objectives

  • Initiate an animal visualization to obtain initial understandings of the couple's attachment pattern.
  • List the three steps of the "3P's " visualization for lifting depression.
  • Explain how a Concerns Dump facilitates conflict resolution, ie, problem-solving.
  • Name at least three pathologies that can be the underlying sources of excessive anger in a marriage.
  • Describe parental alienation syndrome, including at least two of the underlying psychopathologies of spouses who are at risk post-divorce (or earlier) for this phenomenon.
  • Explain how the statement "Narcissism is a listening disorder" clarifies how to diagnose narcissism in the context of couple therapy.

Learning Levels

  • Beginning couple therapists
  • Experienced therapists who are adding couple therapy to their treatment offerings.
  • Experienced therapists looking to expand their treatment toolkit and to integrate their multiple methodologies into one unifying conceptual map.

Target Audience

Therapists-In-Training. Individual therapy practitioners who want to add couple therapy and also innovative treatments for depression and anxiety to their offerings. Practicing couple therapists who want to augment their diagnostic and treatment toolkits.

Course Instructor(s)

  • Susan Heitler

    Dr. Heitler first opened her private practice as a clinical psychologist almost 50 years ago. From her Denver office, in addition to treating both individual and couple therapy clients, Dr. Heitler has written 6 books, journal articles, plus over 300 psychologytoday.com blogposts that have garnered over 26 million reads.

    In response to her innovative perspectives, Dr. Heitler has been invited to speak on her treatment methods in most states of the US plus on almost every continent including Europe, Australia, China, India, and throughout the Middle East. In Lebanon she was chosen as the keynote speaker for the first-ever gathering of the Arab Psychological Association.

    Dr. Heitler's contributions have focused particularly on the importance of win-win conflict resolution skills for sustaining individual and also couple and family emotional health.

    Dr. Heitler's writings have earned high praise, starting with her first major book, From Conflict to Resolution, a book reviewed in the British Journal of Psychiatry as "a modern refreshing book . . . A highly commendable read for all therapists, particularly those striving to practice in what they hope is an integrative way" and by a practicing therapist in Alabama as "the best clinical psychology book I have ever read."

References

  • Weitz E, Kleiboer A, van Straten A, Cuijpers P. (2018). The effects of psychotherapy for depression on anxiety symptoms: a meta-analysis. Psychological Medicine. 48(13):2140-2152. doi:10.1017/S0033291717003622
  • Lemmens, L. H. J. M., Arntz, A., Peeters, F. P. M. L., Hollon, S. D., Roefs, A., & Huibers, M. J. H. (2015). Clinical effectiveness of cognitive therapy v. interpersonal psychotherapy for depression: results of a randomized controlled trial. Psychological Medicine, 45(10), 2095-2110. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291715000033
  • Kolovos, S., Kleiboer, A., & Cuijpers, P. (2016). Effect of psychotherapy for depression on quality of life: meta-analysis. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 209(6), 460-468.
  • Heitler, S. (2016). Prescriptions without pills: For relief from depression, anger, anxiety, and more. NY: Morgan James Publishing.
  • Heitler, S. (1990). From conflict to resolution: Skills and strategies for individual, couple, and family therapy. NY: Norton.
  • Bernet, W. (2020). Parental alienation and misinformation proliferation. Family Court Review, 58(2), 293-307.
  • Goldin, D. S., & Salani, D. (2020). Parental alienation syndrome: What health care providers need to know. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 16(5), 344-348.
  • Öncü, B. K., & Kişlak, Ş. T. (2022). Marital adjustment and marital conflict in individuals diagnosed with ADHD and their spouses. Archives of Neuropsychiatry, 59(2), 127. DOI: 10.29399/npa.27502

CE Process Info

Content

  • Course Videos
    3 parts
    • Class 11: Dealing With Psychopathologies That Generate Anger and Conflict
    • Class 12: Clarifying Attachment Patterns and Visualization Techniques For Treating Depression and Anxiety
    • TEDx Talk: Lift Depression With These 3 Prescriptions-Without-Pills
  • Required Readings
    2 parts
    • Are You a Narcissist? 6 Sure Signs of Narcissism
    • Parental Alienation Syndrome
  • Supplementary Readings
    2 parts
    • A Pleasure to Kill You: The Abusive Personality, Micro and Macro Versions
    • Anxiety: Should You Be Wary of Anti-Anxiety Medication?
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    CE Learning Systems, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CE Learning Systems maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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    CE Learning Systems SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0060.

  • New York Education Department for Licensed Mental Health Counselors (NYSEDLMHC)

    CE Learning Systems, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0072.

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  • New York State Education Department's State Board for Marriage and Family Therapy (NYSEDMFT)

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107:  Visualization Techniques For Addressing Attachment Patterns, Depression, Anxiety, and Anger
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  • Publication Date
    Jul 12th, 2024

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