This is a hands-on clinical skills training featuring advanced techniques for working intensively with clients who have been exposed to significant trauma or loss.

Participants will be able to:

• Name the essential elements of motivational interviewing.
• Guide the client through the Future Movies motivational interviewing intervention.
• Implement the scripted treatment contracting intervention for resistant clients.
• Implement the “parent protector” intervention with a client.
• Guide a client to imaginally talk to their dead parent.
• Guide a client through the “dyadic resourcing” intervention for enhancing attachment status.
• Explain how insecure attachment can contribute to dissociation.
• Name the three primary parts used in IFS and explain their roles in a system.
• Guide a client in the creative conference room activity.
• Implement an interweave for nurturing the needs of inner child parts.
• Implement an interweave for visualizing the transformation of pain held by parts.