Learn group and individual activities that can be used with clients to assist them in addressing depression
Define Physical, emotional, cognitive, environmental and interpersonal interventions
Discuss why it is important to add-in happiness experiences
Discuss solution focused methods for helping clients identify emotional interventions
Define mindfulness and how it can help clients tap into happiness and gratitude and develop hardiness
Based on 100+ Practical Tools to Defeat Depression by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes (pdf included) and Counselor Toolbox Episodes 282, 283, 285, 286, 287 & 288 (Video versions of the podcast are in the course)
Learn about Hazan and Shaver's Adult Attachment Theory
Identify the impact of insecure attachment
Explore ways to help clients change their attachment style and feel more secure in relationships
Help
clients increase awareness of their story including beliefs about and
behavioral reactions to situations that trigger their fear of
abandonment
Learn about fear of abandonment
Explore the concept of schemas or core beliefs
Examine common traps in thinking, reacting and relationships
Learn skills necessary to
Accept their past as part of their story
Acknowledge that their past does not have to continue to negatively impact them in the present