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2696 S. Colorado Blvd. Denver, CO USA
Joanne Steinwachs, PhD.
Meg McElvie, Ph.D.
The workshop includes didactic and experiential elements to create a powerful context for change by practicing the core FAP skills - developing awareness, exercising courage, and responding to others with love, care, and compassion. This experiential work will be linked to behavioral principles and will be directly applicable to the imrpoving effectiveness of your work with clients.
The workshop is suitable for anyone interested in learning FAP as well as those who are more experienced. It is relevant for therapists from all therapeutic orientations.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Define and implement the 5 'rules' of FAP
- Develop a case conceptualization that will be used, not put aside in a client's folder
- Define and identify Clinically Relevant Behavior (BRC) with clients and themsevles
- Use natural reinforcement to shape improvements
- Increase their ability to respond to others and themselves with compassion, love, and genuineness
Learning Objectives
- Define 'awareness, courage, and love, in behavioral terms and practice these in the workshop
- Use functional analysis to focus clinical interventions
- Understand clinically relevant behavior as functional classes of behavior
- Recognize and therapeutically respond to client in-session problematic behaviors
- Identify and prompt clent in-session imrpovements
- Shape client changes by responding to in-session improvements in ways that are naturally reinforcing
- Identify and see more clearly your own behaviors that function to distance others (includiung clients) and those that increasae connection and intimacy
- Gain practice at seeking feedback to enahce therapeutic relationships
- Be able to create a case conceptualization with clients to focus and direct the therapy
- Apply the skills learned during the workshop immediately with clients
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