Unstuck: Effective Interventions for Your Most Challenging & Resistant Clients

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Bill O'Hanlon, MS, LMFT Related seminars and products

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Possibilities/author of 30+ books/featured Oprah guest

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Bill O'Hanlon, MS, LMFT, has authored or co-authored 31 books, the latest being Quick Steps to Resolving Trauma (W.W. Norton, 2010). He has published 59 articles or book chapters. His books have been translated into 16 languages. He has appeared on Oprah (with his book Do One Thing Different), The Today Show, and a variety of other television and radio programs.

For the past 30+ years, Bill has given over 2,000 talks around the world. He has been a top-rated presenter at many national conferences and was awarded the Outstanding Mental Health Educator of the Year in 2001 by the New England Educational Institute. He is a Licensed Mental Health Professional, Certified Professional Counselor, and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Bill is clinical member of AAMFT (and winner of the 2003 New Mexico AMFT Distinguished Service Award), certified by the National Board of Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists and a Fellow and a Board Member of the American Psychotherapy Association. Bill is known for his storytelling, irreverent humor, clear and accessible style and his boundless enthusiasm for whatever he is doing. His seminars are as entertaining as they are educational.

Objectives

• Identify the three empirically supported methods of influence and persuasion.
• List three elements of effective storytelling for change.
• Use three methods of strength- and solution-based therapy.
• Identify 5 methods of acknowledgment that also introduce possibilities.
• Describe how you can overcome therapeutic biases or habits that interfere with clinical results.

Outline

• Inclusion as an effective response to ambivalence, resistance, self-harming and inner conflicts
• Permission/Inclusion of Opposites/Exceptions
• Evocation of motivation as an effective response to resistance
• Clear contracts as an effective response to demanding, self-harming and angry clients
• Using social influence principles to increase cooperation
• Coming in Through the Side Door: Two indirect approaches to effectively decrease resistance
• Storytelling/Presupposition and Positive Expectancy
• Evoking and connecting with resources and strengths to effectively decrease resistance

• The Resistant Therapist: Recognizing where you might be creating resistance
• Creating clarity for beginnings and endings of your work with clients
• Recognizing and correcting your vulnerabilities and weak areas with clients
• The Law of Requisite Variety: Developing flexibility as a therapist to increase effectiveness with challenging clients
• Psychotherapy Outcomes Research Update: What works and how knowing it can help you be more effective (and relax)
• You Can't Save Everyone: Recognizing your limits and developing self-compassion

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