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Step by Step Guide to Internal Family Systems Therapy
Online Course
$358.98 USD
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Format:
Online Course   Instructions
Authors:
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
RICHARD C. SCHWARTZ, PHD
DANIEL J. SIEGEL, MD
Publisher:
Psychotherapy Networker
Copyright:
7/13/2016
CE Available:
Yes, See CE credit tab for complete continuing education details
Product Code:
VPC001129
Objectives
[+] [-] 048575 - The Myth of Unitary Self: A Dialogue on the Multiplicity of Mind with Daniel Siegel, MD and Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.
  1. Assess how to help clients not over-identify with a single part of themselves, and empower them to move beyond the diagnostic labels they feel define them
  2. Evaluate the concept of mindsight and how an enhanced ability to perceive the workings of one’s own mind can lead to greater levels of personal integration
  3. Assess the distinction between the Self and one’s parts and how it can help clients develop a capacity for self-leadership and self-regulation
  4. Communicate the practical similarities and differences between two widely influential models of personality and change

[+] [-] 095808 - Internal Family Systems therapy: From Emotion to Integration
  1. Explain the importance of theThree-Group Model of Common Parts in the clinical applications of IFS
  2. Describe the differences between parts and Self and how it relates to clients
  3. Describe the step-by-step process of unblending the Self from parts.
  4. Explain IFS’s unique approach to managing flooding and dissociation
  5. Explain the process a therapist must take when a client begins to dissociate during IFS work.
  6. Describe which parts take priority in the IFS process

[+] [-] 095811 - Dick Schwartz Answers Your Questions about IFS
  1. Uncover the Internal Family Systems model, the clinical demonstrations, and how IFS can help you in your practice.

[+] [-] 095812 - The Inner Game of Psychotherapy
  • List 3 protocols of IFS therapy and how to apply them when working with clients who have complex developmental trauma.

Outline
[+] [-] 048575 - The Myth of Unitary Self: A Dialogue on the Multiplicity of Mind with Daniel Siegel, MD and Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.
Brief overview of interpersonal neurobiology
  • Presentation of using interpersonal to look at “triangle” of human experience - relationships, body and mind
    • False goals of “unitary” self
    • Integrated identity that makes up one’s “self”
Internal Family System (IFS) view of multiplicity
  • Presentation of IFS outlook of multiple parts within the person
    • Healing oneself internally through parts
    • Eight “C” word qualities of self that aid in healing: curiosity, confidence, calm, compassion, creativity, clarity, connectedness and courage.
Discussion between presenters Daniel Siegel and Richard Schwartz on how to bring the concept of multiplicity into therapy
  • Helping client not over-identify with single part
  • Distinction between the self and the parts
  • Similarities and Differences between neurobiology and IFS
Exercise to overcome emotional obstacles
Concluding discussion between speakers
  • Case examples of multiplicity in psychotherapy
  • Techniques to use neurobiology and IFS within therapy sessions
Audience question and answer session with speakers

[+] [-] 095808 - Internal Family Systems therapy: From Emotion to Integration
Understanding Parts & Self in IFS
  • Parts are sub-personalities that interact internally in sequences and styles that are similar to the ways that people interact
  • It is the nature of the mind to be subdivided
  • All parts are valuable and want to have a positive role
  • Parts become extreme and can be destructive because of life experiences
  • Self is a different level of entity than the parts
  • Self is the seat of consciousness. It is invisible because it is the observing “you”
  • The Self contains qualities like compassion, confidence, curiosity, and perspective-the qualities of good leadership
  • The Self can be obscured by the extremes of parts
The Basic Goals of IFS
  • Releasing parts from their extreme roles so they can find and adopt their preferred, valuable roles
  • DIfferentiating client’s Self from parts so Self can help harmonize and balance the inner and outer life
Working with Exile Parts
  • Exiles are young, vulnerable parts that have experiences trauma and are isolated from the rest of the system for their own and the system’s protection
  • Exiles carry the memories, sensations, and emotions of past events and are stuck in the past
  • Exiles are easily flooded, so you need a calm, reassuring environment to approach
Working with Protector Parts
  • Parts that run the day-to-day life of the person trying to keep exiles exiled by staying in control of events or relationships, being perfect and pleasing, caretaking, scaring the person out of taking risks by criticizing, apathy, worry, etc
  • Firefighters: Parts that react when exiles are activated in an effort to extinguish their feelings or dissociate the person from them. Common firefighter activities include: drug or alcohol use, self mutilation (cutting), binge-eating, sex binges, suicidal ideation, and rage. They have the same goals as managers (to keep exiles away), but different, more impulsive strategies
Case Study: Working with Protectors and Exiles-Two of the Most Common Parts
  • Identifying Parts-the First Steps
  • Unblending Parts from Self
  • Negotiating with protectors through direct access
  • With permission of protectors, begin working with exiles - witnessing, retrievals and unburdening
  • Strategies for Working with Exiles
  • Throughout the process, keep your parts from interfering

  • [+] [-] 095811 - Dick Schwartz Answers Your Questions about IFS
    • Richard Schwartz answers your questions.
    • Intro to call
    • Questions about the IFS process
    • Summary of Call

    [+] [-] 095812 - The Inner Game of Psychotherapy
    Family therapist, Richard Schwartz introduces the concept of Internal Family System (IFS)- a clear, systematic methodology for helping clients heal themselves.

    A basic premise of IFS is that the “Inner Self” is not a single, monolithic persona, but in fact, a complex Internal Family System (IFS) of different parts-or sub-personalities-each with its own sometimes antagonistic memories, viewpoints, desires, and agendas.

    Understanding IFS Parts
    • They are sub-personalities or aspects of our personality that interact internally in sequences and styles that are similar to the ways that people interact
    • All parts are valuable and want to have a positive role
    • Parts become extreme and can be destructive because of life experiences


    Three most common roles played by internal parts
    • Exiles. Young, vulnerable parts that have experiences trauma and are isolated from the rest of the system for their own and the system’s protection. Exiles carry the memories, sensations, and emotions of the events and are stuck in the past
    • Managers. Parts that run the day-to-day life of the person trying to keep exiles exiled by staying in control of events or relationships, being perfect and pleasing, caretaking, scaring the person out of taking risks by criticizing, apathy, worry, etc.
    • Firefighters. Parts that react when exiles are activated in an effort to extinguish their feelings or dissociate the person from them. Common firefighter activities include: drug or alcohol use, self mutilation (cutting), binge-eating, sex binges, suicidal ideation, and rage. Firefighters have the same goals as managers (to keep exiles away), but different, more impulsive strategies


    Understand the Self in IFS
    • The Self is a different level of entity than the parts
    • It is the seat of consciousness-sometimes called the “observing self.”
    • In IFS, the Self is known to contain qualities like compassion, confidence, curiosity, and perspective


    Basic Goals of IFS:
    • To release parts from their extreme roles so they can find and adopt their preferred, valuable roles
    • To differentiate client’s Self so Self can help harmonize and balance a client’s inner and outer life


    Introduction of case study: a clinical video demo using IFS with a client who has a history of complex developmental trauma

    Video illustrates the key steps in the IFS model:
    • Assess the client’s external system to make sure it is safe to do work
    • Introduce IFS language to client
    • Ask what client would like to change
    • Explore the roles and relationships among prominent internal parts
    • Identify and work with managers first
    • Ask about and defuse any dangerous firefighters
    • With permission of managers, begin working with exiles
    • Notice how the client’s deeper Self-characterized by confidence, compassion, and wisdom-emerges during the process
    • Observe the Core Self assume a leadership role in integrating conflicted and disowned inner parts
    • Throughout the process, notice how the therapist keeps his own parts from interfering

    Author

    RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.

    Richard Simon, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and for the last 40+ years has been the editor of Psychotherapy Networker, the most topical, timely and widely read publication in the psychotherapy field. As editor, he has received every major magazine industry honor, including the National Magazine Award.

    Speaker Disclosures:

    Financial: Rich Simon is the President of Psychotherapy Networker, Inc. and the editor of Psychotherapy Networker magazine. He is a published author and receives royalties. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

    Non-financial: Rich Simon has no relevant non-financial relationships.

    RICHARD C. SCHWARTZ, PHD

    RICHARD C. SCHWARTZ, PHD

    Richard Schwartz, PhD began his career as a family therapist and an academic at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There he discovered that family therapy alone did not achieve full symptom relief and in asking patients why, he learned that they were plagued by what they called "parts." These patients became his teachers as they described how their parts formed networks of inner relationship that resembled the families he had been working with. He also found that as they focused on and, thereby, separated from their parts, they would shift into a state characterized by qualities like curiosity, calm, confidence and compassion. He called that inner essence the Self and was amazed to find it even in severely diagnosed and traumatized patients. From these explorations, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model was born in the early 1980s.

    IFS is now evidence-based and has become a widely-used form of psychotherapy, particularly with trauma. It provides a non-pathologizing, optimistic, and empowering perspective and a practical and effective set of techniques for working with individuals, couples, families, and more recently, corporations and classrooms.

    In 2013, Schwartz left the Chicago area and now lives in Brookline, MA where he is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.


    Speaker Disclosures:
    Financial: Dr. Richard Schwartz is the Founder and President of the IFS Institute. He maintains a private practice and has a employment relationship with Harvard Medical School. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Schwartz receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
    Non-financial: Dr. Richard Schwartz is a fellow of Meadows Behavioral Healthcare and is a member of the American Family Therapy Academy and the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy. He is a contributing editor for Family Therapy Networker. Dr. Schwartz serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, the Contemporary Family Therapy, the Journal of Family Psychotherapy, and the Family Therapy Collections.

    DANIEL J. SIEGEL, MD

    DANIEL J. SIEGEL, MD Daniel J. Siegel, MD, is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. He is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, founding co-director of UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center, founding co-investigator at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain and Development, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals, families, institutions, and communities.

    Dr. Siegel's psychotherapy practice spans thirty years, and he has published extensively for the professional audience. He serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, which includes over 70 textbooks. Dr. Siegel's books include his five New York Times bestsellers: Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence; Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, and two books with Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. His other books include: The Power of Showing Up also with Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, The Developing Mind, The Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, Mindsight, The Mindful Brain, The Mindful Therapist, Parenting from the Inside Out (with Mary Hartzell, MEd), The Yes Brain (also with Tina Payne Bryson, PhD). He has been invited to lecture for the King of Thailand, Pope John Paul II, his Holiness the Dalai Lama, Google University, and TEDx.

    Speaker Disclosures:
    Financial: Dr. Dan Siegel is the medical director with Lifespan Learning Institute and is the executive director with Center for Human Development and Mindsight Institute, and the founding editor with Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. He has employment relationship with the University of Washington and UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Siegel receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
    Non-financial: Dr. Dan Siegel is an honorary member of the Austrian Federal Association for Mindfulness and serves on the Garrison Institute Board. He is an advisory board member with Gloo, Blue School, and Convergence.
    Continuing Education Credits Awarded for Completion of Entire Package
    [+] [-] Combined Continuing Education Credit From All Components
    Breakdown of Continuing Education Credits by Components
    [+] [-] 048575 - The Myth of Unitary Self: A Dialogue on the Multiplicity of Mind with Daniel Siegel, MD and Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.
    [+] [-] 095808 - Internal Family Systems therapy: From Emotion to Integration
    [+] [-] 095811 - Dick Schwartz Answers Your Questions about IFS
    [+] [-] 095812 - The Inner Game of Psychotherapy
    Audience
    Addiction Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, Case Managers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and other Mental Health Professionals