Stages of Change in Action
Jennifer Salimbene, LCSW-R, CASAC, CDAC, TEP
Regina Sewell, PhD, LMHC, PCC, CP
May 23
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Online via Zoom
Timing is everything. If you want to engage your clients, you’ve got to meet them where they’re at. Clients often come to treatment because other people (judges, probation officers, employers, significant others, parents, etc.) tell them they need or have to change. While some clients have identified their own internal motivation to change when they walk through our doors, many don’t acknowledge that they have a problem. To help our clients make positive changes in their lives, we have to recognize where they are at in terms of their understanding of their need to change and their willingness to take action. Prochaska and DiClemente’s Stages of Change Model is a non- judgmental framework to assist clients in finding their own intrinsic motivation to change, and in doing so, increase the likelihood of being able to sustain these changes. Using experiential techniques and structures that stem from psychodrama, sociodrama and sociometry to explore the stages of change decreases client resistance and increases their motivation to get and stay sober. Experiential techniques cut through rationalization, denial, justification and various other defenses that clients use to avoid change and enable them to practice making healthier choices.
Goals and Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Define the Stages of Change.
- Explain two benefits of exploring the Stages of Change in action.
- Describe two sociometric techniques to engage and warm up the group.
- Demonstrate how to set up the change ruler to assess client’s Stage of Change.
- Practice helping clients use action techniques to explore denial and ambivalence regarding their need to change.
Registration
Registration Fee: $185.
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Continuing Education Hours
Hudson Valley Psychodrama, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP #6789. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Hudson Valley Psychodrama, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. This course is approved for 6 CE Hours.
NYS LICENSED CREATIVE ARTS THERAPISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS AND MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS: In collaboration with the Sociometric Institute, Inc. The Sociometric Institute is recognized by the NYSED’s State Boards for Social Work and Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0268, licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0096, and licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0046. 6 CE Hours available.
HVPI is an approved continuing education provider for NYS OASAS. 6 CE Hours available.
This workshop offers 6 training hours towards certification by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.
There is a $20 fee for each NBCC, NYS Licensed Social Work, Mental Health Counseling and Creative Arts Therapy Continuing Education certificate. Certificates for Psychodrama training hours and NYS OASAS are provided free of charge.
For more information regarding Continuing Education hours please contact HVPI.