The Prerequisites of Change: Advanced Techniques for Positive Change with Difficult Clients

What does a therapist do when Motivational Interviewing (MI) and CBT are not working? Graduate therapy courses do not typically teach techniques that address how to help highly resistant, unresponsive, uninvolved, involuntary, and/or defiant clients to change. In this program, a model of change is presented that makes use of what could be called the prerequisites or precursors of change. Without these factors positive change is unlikely. Put in a different way, we have all been taught the “defense mechanisms,” but this presentation makes use of the “offense mechanisms” of change, based on empi...Read morerically validated precursors of change. However, the main focus of this workshop is to provide powerful techniques to dissolve resistance so that CBT and other standard therapy approaches can then finally take effect. Less...

Learning Objectives

Describe the prerequisites or precursors of change, without which therapeutic change is unlikely.
Explain why standard therapies such as CBT, MI, and the Stages of Change can be ineffective with some clients.
Implement unique and powerful techniques that will directly dissolve resistance and inspire the move to positive change.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Levels

Intermediate to Advanced

Saturday, August 19, 2023

Live Interactive Webinar

11:00 AM EDT - 02:15 PM EDT

EARN 3 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

Fred J. Hanna, PhD

Professor and co-designer of the PhD Program in Counseling at Adler University

Fred J. Hanna, Ph.D., is a professor and co-designer of the PhD Program in Counseling at Adler University, in Chicago. He is also a Senior Faculty Associate at Johns Hopkins University where he taught graduate counseling courses for 25 years, including 11 years full time, leaving as a Full Professor. Fred has authored or co-authored over 70 peer reviewed and professional publications. An award-winning teacher, he has also delivered over 500 presentations at conferences, seminars, trainings, and workshops, across America. He was the recipient of the 2019 Humanistic Impact Award, a national award granted by the Association for Humanistic Counseling. He was also the recipient of the Adler University Social Justice Award for 2020. Fred has served as a consultant and trainer to the medical, mental health, corrections, business, and education communities, including such places as the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, the Fort Peck Sioux Reservation in Montana, the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University, and a wide variety of school systems, community agencies, prisons, and criminal justice settings from coast to coast. His research interests have focused on developing the Precursors Model of Change which has received international attention. He has also developed, published, and presented many evidence-based, innovative psychotherapy techniques and strategies designed for application in the areas of client motivation, resistance to therapy, addictions, diversity and multiculturalism, oppression, liberation, trauma, spirituality, criminality, defiant adolescents, personal development, and difficult personalities. He is also an accomplished world traveler, having explored many remote areas in Asia. Fred is the author of the book, Therapy with Difficult Clients: Using the Precursors Model to Awaken Change, now in progress for its 2nd Edition. He and his Precursors Model were also the focus of a DVD, Treatment with Defiant, Aggressive Adolescents. The original book, the 2nd Edition, and the DVD are all published by or under contract with the American Psychological Association (APA). Fred is also currently working on a book that outlines and describes a new model of psychotherapy that includes many innovative new techniques, including variations on the themes of existentialism, mindfulness, Buddhist, and Yoga psychology.

Agenda

11:00-11:05 – Introduction
11:05-11:30 – Making use of research on empathy and the therapeutic relationshio
11:30-12:00- Techniques for Instilling a Sense of Necessity
12:00-12:30- Grit or The Willingness to Experience Anxiety or Difficulty
12:30-12:45 – Break
12:45-1:15 – Awareness and Confronting the Problem
1:15-1:45 – Effort Toward Change and Hope for Change
1:45-2:05 – Building Social Support
2:05-2:15 – Q&A

CE Information - Earn 3 CE Credit Hours

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