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Bessel A. van der Kolk's 28th Annual Trauma Conference Presents: The Internal Family System Model: Treating the Long-Term Effects of Trauma


Speakers:
Richard C. Schwartz, PhD |  Michael Mithoefer, MD
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
LWC052990
Brochure Code:
PLW54527B
Media Type:
Live Webcast

Dates


Description

The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model is an evidence-based, empowering approach to treating trauma. It offers a way to help even severely traumatized individuals access an undamaged essence (the “Self”) from which they can spontaneously relate to the parts of them that carry extreme emotions and beliefs with compassion, which allows the parts to transform. These “parts” (angry, self-destructive, compliant, etc.) evolved to help the self-survive. These are not “bad” parts, but internal organizations that stubbornly cling to their old function, even when it’s no longer helpful for survival & thriving. The activities of protective parts can be negotiated with, rather than as controlled or extirpated as pathological processes.

This workshop will introduce the IFS model and illustrate its application through videotaped examples. In addition, IFS is being combined with MDMA in research studies on PTSD and this integration will be discussed and illustrated.

Workshop 5: The Internal Family System Model: Treating the Long-Term Effects of Trauma

  • Richard C. Schwartz, PhD; Michael Mithoefer, MD

OUTLINE

Multiplicity & the Self

                Evolution of the IFS approach

                Multiplicity of the mind

                Stumbling on to the self

 

Internal Family System (IFS) with Trauma

Protector parts and exiles

IFS technique:

                Honoring protectors

                Dealing with the overwhelm

                Witness and retrieve exiles

                Unburden trauma memories, beliefs and emotions

                                                 

Video example extensive review of technique

                Introduce parts language

                Steps toward helping client access self

Help client get to know protectors

                Get permission to go to exiles

                Common protector fears

IFS + MDMA research studies

Integration of MDMA

Therapist-client relationship

Keys to work safely with trauma clients

 

OBJECTIVES

  1. Identify the theory and principles of Internal Family Systems therapy.
  2. Summarize how to access clients’ self- a core of compassion and other leadership qualities.
  3. Explain how to deal with client “resistance” more effectively and with less effort.
  4. Utilize the clients’ self to repair attachment injuries.
  5. Recognize the IFS model as an internal attachment model.
  6. Identify the parallels between external and internal attachment styles.
  7. Describe the effects of trauma on parts and Self.
  8. Utilize the model in treating trauma.
  9. Show an awareness of their own parts and how those parts impact therapy.
  10. Apply IFS principles to transference and counter-transference.

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Credit


* Credit Note - *

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

Continuing Education Information: Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this live interactive webcast. This webcast is a broadcast of a live event. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether web based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

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.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

CE Information is based on 100% attendance.

 


Counselors - Counselors

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Social Workers - Social Workers

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Marriage & Family Therapists

This activity consists of 405 minutes of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the activity advertisement, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements. 


Addiction Counselors - Generic

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Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants

AOTA

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Physicians

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PESI, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


Other Professions

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Handouts/Brochure

Speaker

Richard C. Schwartz, PhD's Profile

Richard C. Schwartz, PhD Related seminars and products

IFS Institute


Richard Schwartz, PhD began his career as a family therapist and an academic at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There he discovered that family therapy alone did not achieve full symptom relief, and in asking patients why, he learned that they were plagued by what they called "parts." These patients became his teachers as they described how their parts formed networks of inner relationship that resembled the families he had been working with. He also found that as they focused on and, thereby, separated from their parts, they would shift into a state characterized by qualities like curiosity, calm, confidence and compassion. He called that inner essence the Self and was amazed to find it even in severely diagnosed and traumatized patients. From these explorations, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model was born in the early 1980s.

IFS is now evidence-based and has become a widely-used form of psychotherapy, particularly with trauma. It provides a non-pathologizing, optimistic, and empowering perspective and a practical and effective set of techniques for working with individuals, couples, families, and more recently, corporations and classrooms.

In 2013, Schwartz left the Chicago area and now lives in Brookline, MA where he is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Richard Schwartz is the Founder and President of the IFS Institute. He maintains a private practice and has a employment relationship with Harvard Medical School. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Schwartz receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Richard Schwartz is a fellow of Meadows Behavioral Healthcare and is a member of the American Family Therapy Academy and the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy. He is a contributing editor for Family Therapy Networker. Dr. Schwartz serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, the Contemporary Family Therapy, the Journal of Family Psychotherapy, and the Family Therapy Collections.


Michael Mithoefer, MD's Profile

Michael Mithoefer, MD Related seminars and products


Michael Mithoefer, MD, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina. In 2009, he completed & published the first FDA approved clinical trial of MDMA assisted psychotherapy for treatment-resistant PTSD, followed by completion of a Phase II trial. He is overseeing a multisite Phase III study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in 13 sites around the US (including the Trauma Research Foundation), and another MDMA-assisted psychotherapy multisite study in Europe and Israel.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Michael Mithoefer has employment relationships with Columbia University, Bassett Healthcare Network, Medical University of South Carolina, and MAPS Public Benefit Corporation. He has an ownership interest in Awakn Life Sciences and serves on the scientific advisory board. Dr. Mithoefer receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Dr. Michael Mithoefer is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.


Additional Info

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review. 


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion.


Target Audience

Physicians, Psychologists, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychiatrists, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants and other Mental Health Professionals

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ADA Needs
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