[Download Now] Trauma, Affect Dysregulation and Shame: Treating the Seeds of Self-Destructive Behaviors – Lisa Ferentz

If you believe that most clients who engage in self-destructive behaviors have a personality disorder, you may be missing the fact that they have pain and trauma narratives.

The choice to cut as opposed to burn is not arbitrary. You need to help clients re-frame their behaviors as the inevitable result of dysregulation and shame, and help them embrace new ways of addressing them in therapy.

If you want to change your practice in treating trauma, shame and self-destructive behaviors, join international trauma expert and author, Lisa Ferentz, LCSW, for her much praised, experiential seminar.

Lisa will show you how to use psycho-education to teach your client new strategies that help them.

• Reduce their shame and self-blame narratives
• Self-soothe and re-claim their affect regulation skills
• Short-circuit overwhelming thoughts and feelings

One of the top selling continuing education seminars is on trauma and shame.

1. Explain the relationship between self-destructive behaviors, trauma, attachment, developmental stressors and affect dysregulation.
2. Describe a chronic cycle of self-harm and the ways in which dissociation and anxiety influence the process.
3. Describe and utilize CARESS, an alternative to standard safety contracts.
4. Implement at least 3 creative strategies that help re-ground and re-establish a sense of safety in triggered trauma survivors.
5. Identify the recurring themes in the artwork of traumatized clients and learn how to work with art in session.
6. Describe the impact of counter-transference when working with self-destructive behaviors.

There is a connection between attachment and regulation.

• The four attachment styles and their impact on child development
• The challenge of attaching to unavailable or abusive caretakers
• The connection between trauma, attachment, and the self-narrative of shame
• Living in a state of affect dysregulation and the impact of hypo- and hyper-arousal
• Exploring the dynamics of attachment and affect regulation through videos

Working from a strength’s perspective.

• Advantages to de-pathologizing destructive behaviors
• The impact this paradigm has on the therapeutic relationship

Re-Enactment of trauma.

• Meta-communication of self-harm
• “Telling” without talking
• Why acts of self-harm are not arbitrary
• Why your clients hurt themselves

The cycle of self-destructive behavior is broken.

• What sets the behavior in motion
• Why it escalates
• What reinforces it

Creative Interventions are Extinguish Self-Destructive Acts.

• The connection between trauma, attachment, and the self-narrative of shame
• The “management” of self-harming behavior
• Journaling to understand triggers
• Re-framing cognitive distortions
• Using guided imagery for untenable thoughts and feelings
• Safe place imagery and containment
• The power of incorporating breath work
• Using the body for somatic resourcing and grounding
• Short-circuiting flashbacks and dissociation

What to do instead of standard safety contracts.

• Incorporating CARESS – a unique proven approach
• Eliminating the power struggles in treatment
• Processing clients’ artwork

The seeds of self-destructive behavior can be treated with Trauma, Affect Dysregulation and Shame. Lisa Ferentz has a book called Trauma, Affect Dysregulation and Shame: Treating the Seeds of Self-Destructive Behaviors. Lisa Ferentz has a discount on Trauma, Affect Dysregulation and Shame: Treating the Seeds of Self-Destructive Behaviors.

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