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Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression


Average Rating:
   21
Speaker:
Janina Fisher, PhD
Duration:
2 Hours 43 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Mar 24, 2019
Product Code:
NOS096054
Media Type:
Digital Recording
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Never expires.


Description

The very nature of depression often thwarts efforts to treat it. After all, it’s difficult to change when you have no energy, no hope, and no capacity to concentrate. How can we challenge these chronic states?

Using interventions from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, this workshop recording will introduce ways to help clients relate to their depressive symptoms mindfully, rather than identifying with them, and to manage physical symptoms through changes in posture, breath, and energy.

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Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples, and families since 1980.

She is the past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.

She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher has an employment relationship with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.


Outline

What is “Major Depression”?

  • The neurobiology of depression
  • How biological depression becomes psychological

Depression as a Cognitive Schemas

  • What happens when we put words to a depressive state
  • How cognitive schemas reinforce depression

Introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

  • Basic principles
  • Fundamental techniques

Sensorimotor Interventions for Treating Depression

  • Resources for increasing energy and mood
  • Movement, a somatic approach to negative cognitions

Depression and the Therapeutic Relationship

  • Contagion effects of depression
  • Making use of the social engagement system

Objectives

  1. Explain depression as a somatic state, not just a psychological state in a clinical setting. 
  2. Identify cognitive schemas that reinforce depressive states. 
  3. Describe a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy approach to understanding depression. 
  4. Identify body-centered interventions that increase energy and focus in depressed clients. 
  5. Experiment with Sensorimotor interventions that counter depressive beliefs. 

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Behavioral Health Professionals.

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Overall:      4.9

Total Reviews: 21

Comments

Linda V

"This was an excellent presentation. I learned a great deal that I will immediately put into practice as a psychotherapist dealing with clients experiencing treatment resistant depression."

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