Evolving single session therapy (SST): Re-conceptualizing the therapeutic process
Presented by SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute
July 5, 2021 | 9 a.m. to noon EST
Scot Cooper, RP
This training is suitable for:
Mental Health Professionals: psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers.
Direct Service Workers: Drop in workers, shelter and hostel workers, child and youth workers, youth justice workers.
Level of training: Suitable for all those with experience providing single session, walk-in, and time constrained therapeutic services (introductory, intermediate and advanced)
Prerequisite: Experience with single session therapy
Description: Within this session we will explore new possibilities for single session therapy (SST) when moving away from the traditional psychological process of treatment and move towards ceremony.
Michael White (2011) introduced the notion of therapy likened to ceremony and has invoked the ‘Rites of Passage’ metaphor (Van Gennep, 1909, 1960; Turner, 1969) as a guide. This re-conceptualization is one of the most important applications of theory to practice in SST. The Rites of Passage metaphor foregrounds the concept of ‘change as movement,’ where expressions of distress are heard as actions. Attention is drawn to the hopeful, friendly small steps people have taken and their ideas about the life they prefer and for which they are striving.
We will also explore other ways change can be represented to expand on your repertoire and open new ways of talking with people experiencing distress, trauma, or crisis in a single session.
Learning objectives:
- Understand how the ‘rites of passage’ metaphor re-shapes single session therapy
- Learn how to hear distress as action
- Acquire many new questions to assist people facing distress and despair
- Gain less known metaphors for change and what they make possible in meaning-making
Registration fees: $125
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