Name
W04 - Effective Techniques for Dealing with Highly Resistant Clients (3 CE)
Date & Time
Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 1:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Speakers
Clifton Mitchell, PhD, PhD
Clifton Mitchell, PhD
Description
Clifton Mitchell PhD, is an international clinical trainer and keynote speaker who has 23 years of experience. He is also author of: Effective Techniques for Dealing with Highly Resistant Clients.
 
Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:
  • Differentiate between conventional and modern definitions of resistance.
  • Conceptualize resistance in a manner that empowers them to avoid, circumvent, and utilize it for client benefit.
  • Describe and understand the most common errors therapists make that foster and promote client resistance. Explain the pitfalls of over-questioning when working with resistant clients and how to employ more effective alternative approaches.
  • Identify basic, overriding principles for dealing with resistance in therapeutic environments. Explain the importance of tending to each principle in therapeutic relationships in order to tactfully manage resistance.
  •  Understand methods for dealing with common difficulties such as “Yes, but…” responses.
Workshop Curriculum:
Understanding Perceived Resistance
  • Developing a personal philosophy for managing resistance
  • Caring for the therapist: Resistance management = stress management
  • Conventional definitions
  • Alternative perspectives: Empowering therapists
Critical Principles for Maximizing the Potential for Movement
  • Do the unexpected
  • Slowing down to go faster
  • It’s all in the details
  • Empathy and the real reason people change the perils of assuming a knowing attitude
  • Your client is not making progress toward what?
  • Just what is a therapist?
“To Ask or Not to Ask? That is the Question”
  • The problems with questions
  • When not to ask
  • Quelling the urge to ask
  • Utilizing the curious command for gentle movement
  • Using the question wisely
Managing "I Don’t Know" Responses
  • Just what does "I don’t know" mean?
  • Responding to "I don’t know"
  • How to avoid "I don’t know" responses
  • The classic pretend technique: The good and the bad
  • Advanced responses
 
NOTE:  There will be a break from 3:00 pm- 3: 15 pm