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Digital Seminar

Treat Anxiety, Trauma, Addiction & Depression Through Bibliotherapy: Poems, Stories & Journaling Techniques to Rewire the Brain


Speaker:
Sherry Reiter, PhD, LCSW, PTR-M/S, RDT-BCT
Duration:
6 Hours 01 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Feb 08, 2018
Product Code:
POS053285
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Digital Seminar | DVD


Description

Feeling depressed and abandoned by her husband and children, a broken client walks into your office, the victim in her own story. You try traditional therapeutic techniques to no avail. Your client is stuck, failing to make progress, and starting to doubt that an end to the suffering is possible. You struggle to move her forward, but feel helpless and unable to breathe new life into the clinical approaches that normally serve you so well.

Now imagine having the power to create a new story with your client, one in which she becomes the heroine in her life’s journey.

The story is the way the mind naturally works, how it integrates thoughts and emotions, making stories one of our most powerful tools to transform and heal.

Watch this recording and learn how to bypass natural resistance to therapy, move stuck clients forward, and help them build new and beneficial neural pathways through innovative interventions built around poems, stories, and journaling.

Evidence-based techniques will empower you to creatively and effectively treat your clients facing anxiety, trauma, addiction and depression. Interventions that you will receive include:

  • Detailed instruction on the strategic application of Bibliotherapy to transform the difficult client into someone with whom you can make great therapeutic strides.
  • Key components of storytelling and guidance through the application of simple writing exercises your clients can easily and naturally use.
  • Published writings and detailed handouts and instruction on applying these stories to treatment with anxious, traumatized, addicted and depressed clients.
  • Skill building activities and interactive exercises that will reinforce the concepts taught, the ability to practice what you’ve learned, and allow its immediate incorporation into your clinical work.

Feel confident and capable to integrate the power of Bibliotherapy into your treatment and provide a safe place to hold your client’s sadness, fear and anger. No previous knowledge or background in writing is required to take full advantage of this recording.

Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

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PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors. Provider #: 2477. This self-study course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.


Counselors - South Carolina Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists

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Social Workers - Canadian Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 6.25 (Clinical) continuing education credits for completing this intermediate level self-study course. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance. Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.


Social Workers - Florida Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors

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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number #50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 6.25 continuing education credits.


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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. Provider #14-006. This self-study course has been approved for 6.0 continuing education hours.


Social Workers - Minnesota Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Minnesota, Board of Social Work. Provider #: CEP-140. This self-study package has been approved for 6.0 continuing education hours. This certificate has been issued upon successful completion of a post-test.


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California Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (CCAPP-EI)

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the CCAPP-EI, Provider #: OS-03-036-1025. This activity meets the qualifications for 6.0 CEH's (continuing education hours).


Connecticut Addiction Counselors

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Chaplains/Clergy

This self-study program is designed to qualify for 6.25 continuing education hours.


Educators

This course consists of 6.25 self-study clock hours. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements. 


New Jersey Educators, Administrators & Education Services Personnel

6.0 Actual Professional Development Hours (self-study). MEDS-PDN, powered by PESI, Inc., is a registered New Jersey Professional Development Provider with the NJ Dept of Education.  


Illinois Educators

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Indiana Educators

6.0 Professional Growth Points are available for full attendance of this self-study package per the Indiana Department of Education standards.


Montana Educators

This self-study package is offered for 6.0 Renewal Units. PESI, Inc. is an Approved Renewal Unit Provider with the Montana Office of Public Instruction.


Texas Educators

PESI, Inc., has been approved as a CPE Provider #500-981 for Texas Educators by the Texas State Board for Educator Certification (SBED). This self-study package qualifies for 6.0 CPE clock hours.


Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists

This intermediate activity is approved for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Nurses

PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of  Registered Nursing, Provider #: 17118 for 6.0 self-study contact hours. 

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Florida Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of  Nursing. Provider #: FBN2858. These materials qualify for 6.0 self-study contact hours.

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Iowa Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Nurses successfully completing these self-study materials will earn 6.3 self-study contact hours. Please email cepesi@pesi.com with your license number, include the title, speaker name and date. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.


Pennsylvania Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

This intermediate activity is approved for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

This intermediate activity consists of 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


Other Professions

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Speaker

Sherry Reiter, PhD, LCSW, PTR-M/S, RDT-BCT Related seminars and products


Sherry Reiter, PhD, LCSW, PTR-M/S, RDT-BCT, Registered Poetry Therapist/Mentor-Supervisor (PTR-M/S) and Registered Drama Therapist/ Board Certified Trainer (RDT-BCT), is an international speaker and author of Writing Away the Demons: Stories of Creative Coping Through Transformative Writing (North Star Press, 2009). As director of The Creative Righting Center, Dr. Reiter mentors helping professionals here and abroad. She is creator of Poets-Behind Bars. Dr. Reiter is a three-time national award winner for her visionary work in bibliotherapy, and was chosen as Teacher of the Year for Touro College in 2009.

She has been teaching Poetry Therapy for the Helping Professional at The New School for Social Research and Hofstra University for over 35 years. Dr. Reiter was a key force in the creation of The National Association for Poetry Therapy, and The International Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy, as well as on the steering committee of The National Association of Drama Therapy.

At 17, Dr. Reiter facilitated her first writing group with the elderly. She was astonished when Emma, who was 88, started to cry as she shared her writing: “All night long/the rain lashed at my window/and I was afraid.” Wherever Sherry worked – in locked psychiatric wards, recovery centers, group homes, recreation centers and schools – from the young to the old, people responded to word play, literature, and story with tears, laughter, and renewed hope.

In the 70’s Sherry learned there was a little-known field called poetry therapy. She devoted the next four decades learning, teaching and training helping professionals to incorporate transformative language into their work.

 

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Sherry Reiter is the director for The Creative Righting Center. She is an associate professor for Touro College. Dr. Reiter is an author for North Star Press and receives royalties. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sherry Reiter is a member of the National Association of Social Workers.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Outline

  • Bibliotherapy: The Power of Poems, Stories and Journaling
    • The "Magic Word Toolbox": Connection and attachment through words
    • The Poetic Prescription: Theories and concepts
    • Neuroplasticity: Inspire, fire, and rewire for change and self-efficacy
    • Neuroscience and the biology of story
    • Enhance positive neural pathways through symbol, story and the senses
  • Poetry Therapy
    • Metaphor, the Shorthand of the Soul and Language of the Subconscious
    • Theme extraction: Create a meaningful focus
    • Principles of transformative language
    • Factors that are in every session
    • Build your own anthology of powerful therapeutic poems
  • Poetry Therapy in Action: Experiential Activities
    • Word-mapping: Identify emotions, thoughts and galvanize creativity
    • The Word Bowl: Introduce play, fun, and curiosity into therapy
    • Five important questions to move your client forward
    • Case study: Janet’s severe depression
  • Journaling Therapy
  • Vital ingredients to effect change and self-efficacy
  • The Journal Ladder: Structure, containment and organization
  • Immediate anchoring in the present moment
  • Externalization to develop the observing ego
  • Edit negatives into positives
  • Sunbursts: Harness your client’s strengths
  • Journaling Therapy in Action: Experiential Activities
  • Guidelines for effective journal writing
  • The power of inklings
  • Alphapoems, Pantoums and Haikus
  • Dialogue: The integration of sub-selves or parts
  • Case study: Pete’s PTSD
  • Story Therapy
  • Reframe the narrative: From pain to power
  • Build skills of narrative competency
  • Eliminate roadblocks: Shaming, blaming and inauthentic gaming
  • The Heroic Journey: A quest for the integrated self
  • Externalize the enemy: Why we need demons, witches, and warlocks
  • The enchantment of fairy tales: From bread crumbs to diagnostic indicators
  • Existential crossroads: Death, radiant moments and the inability to fail
  • Assessment tool: Five criteria for story selection
  • Story Therapy in Action: Experiential Activities
  • Just who do you think you are? Your story
  • Sparkling moments to move the narrative toward positive self-image
  • Story prescriptions: Depression, anxiety, trauma, recovery, bereavement
  • Tiny tales of wisdom in your chest pocket
  • Case study: Kathy’s shame and anger

Objectives

  1. Demonstrate both prescriptive and expressive techniques to treat depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction and bereavement.
  2. Apply journaling techniques to track and regulate client’s emotions.
  3. Employ the principles of transformative writing in treatment for greater neural integration, more flexibility of thought, and greater range of emotion.
  4. Implement simple writing exercises for treatment of emotional regulation and anchoring.
  5. Use poetry reading and journaling in treatment to balance your client’s emotions.
  6. Implement Bibliotherapy techniques in therapy to strengthen the observing ego which leads to new perspectives, behaviors and insights.

Target Audience

Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Creative Arts Therapists, Addiction Counselors, Nurse Practitioners, Chaplains, Hospice Workers, Gerontologists, Educators, School Guidance Counselors

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Terry N

"excellent presentation. Many excellent examples to demonstrate concepts."

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