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15 courses total
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Course 100891 : Constructing Realities
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- Constructing Realities
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- Course Number:
- 100891
- CE Credits:
- 4
- Exam Fee:
- $57.00
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- Authors:
- Marilyn Charles
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- This course is recommended for mental health care professionals, especially social workers,...
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This course provides greater depth of undersanding of Winnicott and Bion’s constructs of potential space, myth and uncertainty to the clinical process. Using numerous case examples, this author demonstrates her thinking and interventions with patients who have creative potential but for whom past trauma inhibits their capacities to be creative. The author brings the reader into the consultation room and generously provides information about her countertransference responses and the way…
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Course 100980 : The Man Without Words: An Evolving Attachment Process
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- The Man Without Words: An Evolving Attachment Process
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- Course Number:
- 100980
- CE Credits:
- 3
- Exam Fee:
- $37.00
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- Authors:
- Shoshanna Ringel, Ph.D.
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- This course is recommended for mental health care professionals, especially social workers,...
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This article illustrates findings from attachment theory and their elaboration by Fonagy and Target to show how attachment theory can be linked with intersubjective and relational perspectives. Concepts of attachment theory are developed to help understand personality development. These concepts are then applied to a case example that illustrates the treatment of a patient who has an avoidant-fearful attachment style. The clinical vignette details the treatment process, particularly…
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Course 101129 : The Supportive Approach to Therapy and Taking a Second...
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- The Supportive Approach to Therapy and Taking a Second Look: Reflections on "The Supportive Approach to Therapy"
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- Course Number:
- 101129
- CE Credits:
- 2
- Exam Fee:
- $27.00
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- Authors:
- Shirley Greenberg; Carol Ganzer, Ph.D, MSW
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- This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially social workers,...
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The paper correct misunderstandings about supportive therapy as a non-specific, reassuring response to patients’ overwhelming stress. Supportive therapy require perceptive assessment of the particular coping skills used by the patient, and an understanding of the ways in which empathic contact revives the sense of capacity to endure.
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Course 101198 : Understanding Adoption
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- Understanding Adoption
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- Course Number:
- 101198
- CE Credits:
- 6
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- $57.00
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- Authors:
- Diana Siskind, MSW (editor); Sue Sherman, DSW (editor); Kathleen Hushion, MSW (editor)
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- This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially social workers, counselors,...
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This book, written by a series of authors, outlines a number of clinical considerations when working with children or adults who have been adopted. It also includes chapters that describe some of the difficulties associated with the adoption process. Whether interested in learning about adoption of children from different cultures, gay adoption, or the dynamics issues raised by secrets surrounding the adoption, this book will provide clinicians with insights that will enhance their…
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Course 101241 : Sexual Boundary Violations: Therapeutic, Supervisory, and...
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- Sexual Boundary Violations: Therapeutic, Supervisory, and Academic Contexts
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- Course Number:
- 101241
- CE Credits:
- 5
- Exam Fee:
- $47.00
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- Authors:
- Andrea Celenza, Ph.D.
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- This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially social workers,...
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This course describes the problem of sexual boundary violations by mental health providers. The author examines the power imbalance and erotic transference and countertransference that are part of sexual boundary violations. This course also describes ways to develop workshops to educate mental health professionals about the causes and consequences of sexual boundary violations.
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Course 101490 : Patrick Casement's Thoughts on Communication in Behavior
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- Patrick Casement's Thoughts on Communication in Behavior
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- Course Number:
- 101490
- CE Credits:
- 2
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- $37.00
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- Patrick Casement
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- This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, counselors,...
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This exerpt explores Casement’s view on not forcing clients to fit our theories. He provides multiple examples from his own work with clients and supervisees. As he reflects on his experiences as an agency social worker before becoming a psychoanalyst it thus has special relevance for social work clinicians.
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Course 101520 : Psychoanalytic Case Formulation
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- Psychoanalytic Case Formulation
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- Course Number:
- 101520
- CE Credits:
- 5
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- $47.00
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- Authors:
- Nancy McWilliams
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- This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially social workers, counselors,...
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This course takes clinicians step-by-step through developing a dynamic case formulation and using this information to guide and inform treatment decisions. Many aspects of the psychanalytic cannon are reviewed.
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Course 101588 : The Problem of Perversion
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- The Problem of Perversion
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- Course Number:
- 101588
- CE Credits:
- 5
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- $47.00
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- Authors:
- Arnold Goldberg, M.D.
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- This course is recommended for intermediate to advanced social workers, psychologists, nurses and...
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Arnold Goldberg M.D. explains and interprets perverse behavior by drawing onconcepts of psychoanalytic self psychology. This viewpoint makes disorders of perversion more understandable and more accessible to treatment.
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Course 100279 : Provision: Its Unchanging Relationship To The Clinician's...
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- Provision: Its Unchanging Relationship To The Clinician's Ambivalence
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- Course Number:
- 100279
- CE Credits:
- 2
- Exam Fee:
- $27.00
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- Authors:
- Rosalyn Benitez-Bloch
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- This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially social workers,...
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This paper describes the process of provision in social work practice. Since the early history of social practice, the profession has adapted various ideas from psychoanalytic theory that may or may not be helpful to the work with clients seen by social workers. Using case histories and the evolution of practice theory, this paper provides the reader with ways to think about provision as a means of facilitating change.
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Course 100281 : The Social Work Psychoanalysts Casebook
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- The Social Work Psychoanalysts Casebook
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- Course Number:
- 100281
- CE Credits:
- 6
- Exam Fee:
- $67.00
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- Authors:
- Joyce Edward (editor) and Elaine Rose
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- This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, counselors,...
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This course offers differing approaches to psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Using multiple authors, who are trained in social work, this book describes concepts such as transference, countertransference, enactment, attachment theory, assessment and the application of these concepts to practice. The reader will also learn ideas about ways to approach the various phases in treatment, beginnings, endings, vacation interruptions and a patient who returns to therapy after many months.
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Course 100282 : Moving Beyond The Comfort Zone in Psychotherapy
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- Moving Beyond The Comfort Zone in Psychotherapy
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- Course Number:
- 100282
- CE Credits:
- 3
- Exam Fee:
- $47.00
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- Authors:
- Nancy Bridges
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- This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially social workers,...
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This book takes the reader through a process of coping with difficult moments in treatment. Using her own clinical experience, the author describes examples of sexual or angry feelings and ways to understand countertransference responses that facilitate the therapeutic process. In the final chapter, she also addresses ways that misuse of authority can inhibit the learning process.
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Course 100283 : The Environment: Its Role in Psychosocial Functioning and...
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- The Environment: Its Role in Psychosocial Functioning and Psychotherapy
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- Course Number:
- 100283
- CE Credits:
- 6
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- $67.00
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- Authors:
- Carolyn Saari
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- This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially social workers,...
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This book reviews the psychoanalytic literature and the inclusion of environment, particularly by analysts such as Erickson. Despite his and post-modern theorists influence on psychotherapy there still exists an inadequate attention to environment in much of clinical thought and practice. In Part I, Saari traces the way that environment was an assumption of psychoanalytic theory but was not clearly integrated into an understanding of development. In Part II, she focuses on social…
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Course 100284 : Roadbloacks On The Journey Of Psychotherapy
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- Roadbloacks On The Journey Of Psychotherapy
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- Course Number:
- 100284
- CE Credits:
- 6
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- $67.00
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- Authors:
- Jane S. Hall
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- This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially social workers,...
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The reader will be taken through multiple examples of interactions between therapist and patient that demonstrate possible roadblocks in the therapeutic process. Throughout the book the author uses case material to assist the reader to understand psychoanalytic concepts such as transference, countertransference and enactment.
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Course 100286 : Empathic Attunement: The Technique Of Psychoanalytic Self...
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- Empathic Attunement: The Technique Of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology
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- Course Number:
- 100286
- CE Credits:
- 6
- Exam Fee:
- $67.00
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- Authors:
- Crayton Rowe and David S. MacIsaac
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- This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially social workers,...
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This course describes the way that self psychology impacts the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Following a description of basic principles of self psychology such as empathy, selfobject transference and transmuting internalizations, numerous case examples are provided. These examples, depict the way that clinicians can apply empathic attunement to their work with all patients.
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Course 100312 : Psychodynamic Social Work
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- Psychodynamic Social Work
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- Course Number:
- 100312
- CE Credits:
- 6
- Exam Fee:
- $67.00
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- Authors:
- Jerrold R. Brandell
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- This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially social wokers psychologists,...
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This course explores the various psychodynamic theories and their connection to social work practice. Beginning with the various psychoanalytic and social work theorists who developed practice interventions appropriate to various practice specialty, this work traces the evolution of social work practice. It includes short and long term therapy and work with children, adolescents, adults and the elderly.
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