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Group Therapy
…Number of CEs Offered: 3 Cost: See AspiraCE’s Pricing Page for details Event Link: Sign Up Here Become familiar with group therapy approaches and techniques • Learn the historical framework concerning the development of group therapy. • Learn and apply widely accepted theoretical approaches • Identify and distinguish between group therapy types • Evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness of group therapy…
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Performance Psychology: Optimizing Performance with Psychology
…tists, athletes, and those in the business world. This course explores the development of domain-specific knowledge and application of Psychological Skills Training (PST), such as those used in sport psychology, to allow for the consultant/practitioner to effect specific change in the performance of clients in pressure situations. Although geared to practitioners as an introduction to the field, ready-to-use skills and principles are presented for…
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Mental Health Apps: A Therapist in Your Pocket!
…9 cents or just a few dollars. They can be used by therapists for personal development or clinical work, by clients to support their therapeutic work, or by laypeople not in therapy. Through sheer low price and ease of accessibility, mental health apps make mental health services available to millions of people who may otherwise be prohibited by cost, geographic location, preference for treatment modality, or time. Soldiers stationed overseas, peo…
Learn MoreHow You Can Help Someone At Risk for Suicide by Lisa Firestone, Ph.D.
…e. In collaboration with Dr. Robert Firestone, her studies resulted in the development of the Firestone Assessment of Self-Destructive Thoughts (FAST) and the Firestone Assessment of Violent Thoughts (FAVT). Dr. Firestone has published numerous professional articles, and most recently was the co-author of the books: Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships (APA Books, 2006), Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice(New Harbinger, 2002), and Creating a Life…
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The Psychology Behind Strained Father Son Relationships
…s unable to manage my reactivity to his testing of boundaries, etc. as all children do. I couldn’t turn this around, and lost my handle on his development. When he was around 5 or 6 years old, things started to “go south” between us. No matter how much I had promised myself that I wouldn’t repeat and recreate the hostile relationship I’d had with my own father, I felt almost compelled, unconsciously, to reenact my own childhood with my son. Here i…
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How Your Critical Inner Voice Gets in the Way of Love
…e? The critical inner voice is a byproduct of the defenses we developed as children in order to cope with any stressful or painful events. It was formed early on when we were vulnerable youngsters trying to protect ourselves against frustration and emotional pain, and it was reinforced throughout our childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood. This was part of a necessary coping strategy when we were very young, but as adults, we no longer need it…
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Factors that Increase or Suppress Death Anxiety
…ious, but must eventually be surrendered. Significant advances in personal development, progress in psychotherapy, and increased movement toward independence and individuation throughout one’s lifetime combine to make individuals more aware of their separateness, vulnerability, and mortality. Whenever people move out of the familiar safety of their defenses and expand their lives, anxiety is aroused or heightened and they begin to experience their…
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Advice From a Mother of the Bride
…suggest they both develop some specific skills that can help with personal development and in strengthening a relationship. These include: Adopting a compassionate attitude toward yourself and toward your partner. According to Dr. Kristin Neff, self-compassion involves “being open to and moved by one’s own suffering, experiencing feelings of caring and kindness toward oneself, taking an understanding, non–judgmental attitude toward one’s inadequac…
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