Skip to main content
Not Found
Digital Seminar

Effective Tools for Working with Serious Mental Illness


Average Rating:
   203
Speaker:
Steve Shapiro, PhD
Duration:
2 Hours
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
21 Mar, 2025
Product Code:
NOS096453
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

It’s unfortunate, but severely mentally ill clients are the ones we frequently feel least able to help. Instead, they often find themselves marginalised within our field, medicated for chronic mental health symptoms without therapy. In this workshop, you’ll be introduced to powerful ways you can help fragile clients with serious trauma histories—or those who experience psychoses—to develop a more mature emotional infrastructure. Whether you’re an experienced practitioner or new to experiential dynamic therapies like ISTDP or AEDP, you’ll come away with new tools and interventions and a better understanding of how to help clients suffering from PTSD, personality disturbance, and severe and persistent mental illness. We’ll also touch on related issues such as splitting and projection, paranoia, hallucinations, disassociation, mind and body phenomena, suicide, therapeutic confrontation, and management of psychiatric emergencies. You’ll learn to:

  • Use defence restructuring and anxiety regulating methods to meet clients where they are
  • Do deeper work with clients through the development of increased emotional capacity and relatedness
  • Help clients tolerate difficult and previously forbidden emotional conflicts
  • Help clients recognise the implicit emotional schemas keeping them stuck

CPD

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



CPD

This online program is worth 2 hours CPD.



Handouts

Speaker

Steve Shapiro, PhD's Profile

Steve Shapiro, PhD Related seminars and products


Steve Shapiro, PhD, is a psychologist, certified IEDTA teacher, trainer, and supervisor, and a founding member of the AEDP institute with over 20 years of clinical and teaching experience. His work as the director of an emergency psychiatric hospital for over 16 years has informed his approach to challenging patients with a history of trauma, a high degree of resistance, or excessive anxiety and dysregulation. He trains clinicians internationally. 

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Steven Shapiro maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Institute and MCP Hahnemann University, He receives a speaking honorarium from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Steven Shapiro is a fellow with the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, a member of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and the American Association of Suicidology.


Additional Info

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 cepepesi.com


Objectives

  1. Recognie and regulate markers for excessive anxiety when working with clients with a trauma history.
  2. Modify (restructure) defences like splitting & projection to encourage more adaptive functioning.
  3. Explore previously forbidden material safely using a modified format in those with a history of borderline or psychotic level symptoms and functioning.

Outline

LEVELS OF STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONING:
  • Neurotic, borderline & psychotic levels
  • What is the limiting factor: defence or anxiety?
  • Reality testing
  • Relatedness
 
VIDEO DEMONSTRATION
  • Microanalysis of principles covered
  • Group deliberate practice
  • Facilitated discussion
 
CLINICAL APPLICATION OF THEORY
  • Highlight and invite (join and challenge)
  • Analysing and relating

UNDERSTANDING PSYCHODIAGNOSIS
  • Anxiety discharge pathway parameter
  • Anxiety tolerance parameter
  • Defence level parameter
 
MOMENT TO MOMENT TRACKING OF THE PROCESS
  • Using a modified approach (graded format)
  • Restructuring defences
  • Regulating anxiety and increasing emotional capacity
  • Therapist factors
    • Risks and limitations of the model
    • Need for therapist training
 
VIDEO DEMONSTRATION
  • Microanalysis of principles covered
  • Group deliberate practice
  • Facilitated discussion

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Social Workers
  • Physicians 
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counsellors

Reviews

5
4
3
2
1

Overall:      4.6

Total Reviews: 203

Satisfaction Guarantee
Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to info@pesi.co.uk or call 01235847393.

Please wait ...

Back to Top