Working with the Cycle of Self-Destructive Behaviors in Traumatized Clients

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Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, is a recognized expert in the strengths-based, de-pathologized treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for over 40 years. She has been an adjunct faculty member at several universities, and is the founder of The Ferentz Institute, now in its seventeenth year of providing continuing education to mental health professionals and graduating several thousand clinicians from her two certificate programs in advanced trauma treatment. In 2009 she was voted the “Social Worker of the Year” by the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work. She is the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide, now in its second edition, Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing and Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons from the Therapist’s Couch.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lisa Ferentz maintains a private practice and is the Founder and President of the Ferentz Institute. She receives royalties as a published author and is a consultant for Northwest Hospital. Lisa Ferentz receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lisa Ferentz is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the American Psychotherapy Association.

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Ziele

1. Analyze the four potential attachment patterns in parent-child development and the impact they have on psychological development.
2. Identify at least two reasons why clients engage in self-destructive behaviors and their treatment implications.
3. Apply a strengths-based perspective when treating clients who engage in self-harm.
4. Utilize at least two interventions to decrease negative cognitions and affect dysregulation fueling self-destructive behaviors.
5. Implement at least one tool to decrease shame in clients who engage in self-harm.

Gliederung

Attachment, Affect Regulation, and Psychological Development in a Traumatic Environment 

• Secure is not the norm – the predicament of attaching to unavailable or abusive caretakers 
• Affect dysregulation and the impact of hypo- and hyper-arousal 
• Brain-based navigation of developmental stressors and challenges 

Strengths-Based Assessment and Treatment of Self-Destructive Behaviors 

• Advantages to de-pathologizing acts of self-harm 
• Understand trauma-reenactment syndrome and the meta-communication of self-harm 
• Tips for helping clients share information about self-destructive behaviors 
• Explore triggers and how to navigate them with journaling and escape clauses 
• Self-compassion, re-framing, de-coding, and other interventions for negative cognitions 
• Install safety, enhance containment, and access somatic resources to stabilize affective dysregulation 
• Breathwork to decrease anxiety 
• Introduce choices and re-grounding to address dissociation 

Additional Clinical and Other Considerations 

• Working with endorphins produced by self-harm 
• Tools to address shame and decrease emotional vulnerability 
• Why standard safety contracts don’t work and what to do instead 
• Reducing power struggles in treatment 
• Beschränkungen der Forschung und mögliche Risiken 

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