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Digital Seminar

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

Speaker:
Janina Fisher, PhD
Duration:
3 Hours 49 Minutes
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN, ES, DE, FR, and IT, handouts in EN, ES, DE, IT, and FR
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-centered 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

Credit

Self-Study Credit

This self-study program consists of 4.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary by country and local regulatory bodies. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your local regulatory organization to determine specific eligibility and requirements. 

Handouts

File type File name Number of pages
PDF Manual - Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression (2.2 MB) 26 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression - French (2.2 MB) 26 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression - Italian (2.2 MB) 26 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

Speaker

Janina Fisher, PhD's Profile

Janina Fisher, PhD Related seminars and products

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.

Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product. For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepesi@pesi.com.


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-centered 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-centered 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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