Post-Traumatic Growth: Leading Clients on a Journey of Resiliency and Healing with Lisa Ferentz, LCSW- C, DAPA

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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 35 years. She presents workshops and keynote addresses nationally and internationally, and is a clinical consultant to practitioners and mental health agencies in the United States, Canada, the UK, and Ireland.

She has been an adjunct faculty member at several universities, and is the founder of “The Ferentz Institute,” now in its 12th year of providing continuing education to mental health professionals and graduating over 1,600 clinicians from her two certificate programs in Advanced Trauma Treatment.

In 2009, she was voted the “Social Worker of Year” by the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work. Lisa is the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2014), Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing (Routledge, 2014), and Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons From the Therapist’s Couch (PESI, 2017). Lisa also hosted a weekly radio talk show, writes blogs and articles for websites on self-harm and self-care, and teaches on many webinars.

 

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Lisa Ferentz maintains a private practice and is the Founder and President of the Ferentz Institute. She receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from PESI, Inc. She receives royalties as a published author and is a consultant for Northwest Hospital. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Lisa Ferentz is a member of the American Psychotherapy Association; the National Association of Social Workers (NASW); The Leadership Council for Mental Health, Justice and the Media; the International Society for the Study of Dissociation; and the Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work. She serves as a board member for Linkz Tutoring.

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Objectives

1. Characterize post-traumatic growth and identify two metaphors that can be used to introduce the concept into the therapy process.
2. Construct three examples of how the meaning clients attach to trauma can either intensify or mitigate their experiences.
3. Evaluate three examples of the positive and negative impact that clients’ meaning-making has on treatment outcomes.
4. Analyze at least three reasons why some clients might find it challenging to reach a place of post-traumatic growth.
5. Assess for 5 personality traits that can increase the likelihood of clients experiencing post-traumatic growth in therapy.
6. Communicate the “hamster wheel” phenomenon of perpetually asking “why” trauma occurred.
7. Construct the cognitive steps that allow trauma survivors to move beyond their questioning into pro-active, forward movement.
8. Appraise the “Shattered Vase” analogy and its relevance to posttraumatic growth.
9. Choose three ways in which the strengths- based perspective can be woven into treatment and how why it benefits client’s healing processes.
10. Select three assessment questions that can be used to highlight and strengthen clients’ resiliency.
11. Categorize the 5 measurable arenas that are indicative of posttraumatic growth and give examples of each.
12. Implement at least 6 creative strategies designed to connect clients to the concepts of PTG and to strengthen their awareness of their own growth journeys.

Outline

PROCESSING THE IMPACT OF TRAUMA

• Shifting from PTSD to Posttraumatic Growth (PTG)
• Define PTG- analogies for treatment
• Explore the Subjective Meaning of Trauma
• Writing Experiential

ASSESS FOR CLIENT RESILIENCY

• The Challenges of Achieving PTG
• Planting the Seeds of PTG in Therapy
• The Therapist’s Lens and Countertransference
• Case Study

THE POWER OF POSITIVE SELF-TALK

• The Strengths-based Perspective
• Introduce Self-Compassion
• Experiential: Remembered Resources
• Cognitive Re-framing: Going for Kindness

MOVE BEYOND A TRAUMA IDENTITY

• Notice Double Standards
• Highlighting Resiliency
• Indicators of Post-traumatic Growth

EXPLORING THE MANIFESTATIONS OF POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH

• Process the PTG Inventory
• Re-discover Personal Strengths
• Case Study and Video
• Experientials: Somatic resourcing, Visualization and Art
• Belief in New Possibilities
• Case Study and Video
• Experiential: PTSD and PTG Through Art

MOVING BEYOND THE TRAUMATIZED SELF

• Relating to Others
• Experiential: Two-handed Writing
• Exploring Spirituality
• Case Study and Video

HELP CLIENTS PAY IT FORWARD

• Newfound Appreciation of Life
• Case Study
• Experiential: Art and Gratitude
• PTG and Forgiveness

BUILDING ON THE SEEDS OF POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH

• Additional Creative Strategies to Promote PTG
• Guided Imagery, Documenting Healing Through Artwork, Journaling

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