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Digital Seminar

Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Sensorimotor Approach to Change

Faculty:
Janina Fisher, PhD
Duration:
3 Hours 49 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
18 Mar, 2021
Product Code:
NOS096095
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Description

The very nature of depression often thwarts efforts to treat it. After all, it’s difficult to change when you have no energy, no hope, and no capacity to concentrate. How can we challenge these chronic states? Using interventions from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, this recording will introduce ways to help clients relate to their depressive symptoms mindfully, rather than identifying with them, and to manage physical symptoms through changes in posture, breath, and energy. You’ll discover how to:

  • Help clients separate depressive thoughts from physical symptoms so that each can be treated separately
  • Counter cognitive beliefs that reinforce depressive states by experimenting with new words, new actions, and new habits
  • Use body-centred interventions, such as movement, to increase energy and focus in depressed clients
  • Facilitate development of an “antidepressant lifestyle” rather than habitual engagement in the opposite

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- PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This online program is worth 4 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.

Handouts

File type File name Number of pages
PDF Manual - Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression (2.2 MB) 26 Pages Available after Purchase
Text Document Transcript Part 1 (41.6 KB) 27 Pages Available after Purchase
Text Document Transcript Part 2 (41.7 KB) 28 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression - French (2.2 MB) 26 Pages Available after Purchase
Text Document Transcript Part 1 - French (41.6 KB) 27 Pages Available after Purchase
Text Document Transcript Part 2 - French (41.7 KB) 28 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression - Italian (2.2 MB) 26 Pages Available after Purchase
Text Document Transcript Part 1 - Italian (41.6 KB) 27 Pages Available after Purchase
Text Document Transcript Part 2 - Italian (41.7 KB) 28 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression - German (2.2 MB) 26 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression - Spanish (2.2 MB) 26 Pages Available after Purchase

Faculty

Janina Fisher, PhD's Profile

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Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, founder of Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), advisory board member of the Trauma Research Foundation, and coauthor with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation and Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is an international expert and consultant on Trauma and Dissociation. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.

Objectives

  1. Differentiate to clients depression as a somatic state, not just a psychological state.
  2. Determine cognitive schemas that reinforce depressive states to improve client outcomes.
  3. Appraise a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy approach to understanding depression.
  4. Assess three body-centred interventions that increase energy and focus in depressed clients.
  5. Evaluate Sensorimotor interventions that transform depressive beliefs.
  6. Evaluate the use of the social engagement system and its role in evoking an internal sense of safety as it relates to treatment.

Outline

Explain to clients about depression as a somatic state, not just a psychological state. 

  • Depression and the nervous system 
  • How depression aids survival in childhood 

Identify cognitive schemas that reinforce depressive states to improve client outcomes. 

  • Making meaning of depressive feelings and states 
  • How negative beliefs affect the body and nervous system 

Describe a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy approach to understanding depression. 

  • Teaching clients to become curious and interested 
  • Studying the interaction of thoughts, feelings and body reactions 

Identify three body-centred interventions that increase energy and focus in depressed clients. 

  • Experimenting with movement and posture 
  • Techniques for increasing energy in the body 

Explore Sensorimotor interventions that transform depressive beliefs.  

  • Beliefs condition the body 
  • The body conditions and reinforces beliefs 

Discuss the use of the social engagement system and its role in evoking an internal sense of safety as it relates to treatment. 

  • The social engagement system as a neural or somatic system 
  • How therapists can make use of somatic communication to enhance therapeutic effectiveness

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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