Learning Objectives: Transforming Resistance
- List 4 principles of moment to moment tracking
- Relate 5 ways to maintain an experiential focus
- Name 4 methods to keep patient motivation high, prevent therapist agenda and avoid a misalliance
- Apply 3 ways to distinguish defense from anxiety
- LIst 5 mechanisms of transformation
- Examine 3 ways to improve therapist emotional capacity, focus & persistence
- Analyze understanding defenses
- Define syntonic vs dystonic defenses
- List 3 defense clarification techniques
- Choose defense relinquishing techniques
- Categorize defenses against feeling vs connection
- Explain systems of resistance
- Diagram an understanding of anxiety physiology & pathways
- Describe healthy vs unhealthy anxiety
- Apply an understanding of dysregulation
- Compare anxiety regulation techniques
- Identify increasing anxiety tolerance
- Discriminate complex feelings
- Summarize building capacity: increasing affect tolerance
- Role-play the role of guilt, shame & fear
- Illustrate affect facilitation: demonstrate the ladder of emotion
- Summarize 3 ways to work with feelings toward the therapist
- Describe the function of portrayals
- Create methods to enhance emotional breakthroughs & access unconscious material
- Describe clinical decisions using a clinical map/ flow chart
- Describe how the person of the therapist is an important variable in the therapeutic dyad
- Distinguish features of the training process & professional development which enhance learning
- Determine the qualities of expert therapists as implemented in sessions
