IN-PERSON CONFERENCE TRACK 1/ROOM A



GSAP 2021



NBCC Continuing Education Hours



INCLUDES:

*Adlerian Concepts 101 (1 CE Hour)

*The Cooperative Family Part 1 and 2 (3 CE Hours Each = 6 CE Hours)

*Sexual Intimacy and the Adlerian Task of Love (3 CE Hours)

*Healing from Trauma Using An Adlerian Perspective (3 CE Hours)

*The Family System: Finding the Space to Re-examine Roles and Rules of Family Living (3 CE Hours)





Friday, august 20th 2021





8:30AM-9:30AM

Adlerian Concepts 101

(1 CE Hour)


Stacy Sampson, MS, LPC, NCC, CPCS


In this one-hour overview, participants will learn about Alfred Adler and Adlerian Therapy Concepts. Participants will learn about Adler’s concepts for family and childhood experiences in addition to expanding their knowledge of important Adlerian concepts such as holistic treatment perspective, creating meaning, and identifying and building on client’s strength areas.


Objectives:

1) Provide participants with information about Alfred Adler and Adlerian theory.

2) Provide an overview of key Adlerian concepts, including Early Childhood Recollections, Striving for Meaning, Individual as a Whole Person.


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9:45AM-1PM

(15 MINUTE BREAK AT 11:15AM)

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The Cooperative Family Part 1

(3 CE Hours)

Calvin D. Armerding, MA, LPC


Families are the training ground for social development. Unfortunately, they often train us to compete against others. Competition disrupts our marriages/partnerships, parenting, sibling relationships, and intergenerational connection. This workshop will use Adlerian theory and live demonstrations to exhibit how to expose competitive striving and orient clients towards cooperative living.


Objectives:

1) Participants will be able to explain the difference between vertical (competitive) striving and horizontal (cooperative striving).

2) Participants will be able to identify typical forms of competitive striving within families.

3) Participants will be able to demonstrate Adlerian strategies for exposing competitions within families.

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1PM-2PM


LUNCH


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2PM-5:15PM

(15 MINUTE BREAK AT 3:30PM)


Sexual Intimacy and

the Adlerian Task of Love

(3 CE Hours)


Stacy Sampson, MS, LPC, NCC, CPCS


This workshop aims to increase clinicians' knowledge of sexual health topics to enhance their therapeutic skills with struggling clients. Additionally, participating in the workshop will increase clinicians’ comfort level with helping clients tackle the Life Task of Love/Intimacy.


Objectives:

1) Discuss Adler's concept of Life Task of Love/Intimacy and how this impacts relationships.

2) Gain knowledge around sexual intimacy to increase comfort level in addressing issues with clients in therapy.

3) Demonstrate therapeutic strategies to aid in helping clients process their love/intimacy struggles.





saturday, august 21st 2021






9AM-12:15PM

(15 MINUTE BREAK AT 10:30AM)


Healing from Trauma

Using An Adlerian Perspective

(3 CE Hours)


Stacy Sampson, MS, LPC, NCC, CPCS


Trauma survivors frequently struggle to lessen their PTSD symptoms and to heal from their experiences. Participants will learn how to utilize Adlerian theoretical concepts and strategies to enhance their work during individual counseling sessions with survivors of trauma. Workshop will be comprised of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations of therapeutic strategies.


Objectives:

1) Review DSM diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the impact of trauma on clients’ well-being, and the importance of balancing knowledge of symptoms while avoiding pathologizing a client’s experiences.

2) Discuss the importance of empowerment as the foundation for the therapeutic process and empowerment’s connection to the Adlerian concepts of self-determination, and holism.

3) Discuss ways to aid clients with creating meaning for their lives and focus on growth from traumatic experiences. 4) Demonstrate therapeutic strategies for aiding in healing from trauma by focusing on client’s goals, strengths, superiority, and choices.


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12:30-1:30


LUNCH


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1:30PM-4:45PM

(15 MINUTE BREAK AT 3PM)


The Cooperative Family Part 2

(3 CE Hours)


Calvin D. Armerding, MA, LPC


This session is a continuation of The Cooperative Family Part 1. In this session the development of competition within the family will be further addressed. Participants will then practice designing interventions to assist in what Adler wrote of as a "Cooperation Between the Sexes". The understanding of cooperation will be surveyed as we determine the generational meanings and expectations in regards to this term. Finally, the importance of cooperation to the larger community will be discussed.


Objectives:

1) Participants will be able to design intervention strategies for reorienting clients away from competition and towards cooperation.

2) Participants will be able to discuss with other participants how competition affects marriages/partnerships, parenting, sibling dynamics, and intergenerational relationships.

3) Participants will be able to recognize how developing cooperative dynamics in the family builds social interest and contributes to community well-being.





sunday, august 22nd 2021






9AM-12:15PM

The Family System: Finding


the Space to Re-examine Roles


and Rules of Family Living

(3 CE Hours)


Gary S. Bauman, PHD, LPC, CPCS


Family Life creates multiple opportunities for both conflict and cooperation. Particularly in 2020, the challenges created by imposed quarantines and restricted outlets introduced havoc and tension within the family system that might have previously been avoided. In our universe that remains in perpetual motion, the rules of gravity seem to effortlessly maneuver each celestial body through orbital routines which appear familiar and predictable, until such unforeseen collisions create havoc in the galactical harmony that is taken for granted. Similarly, when the roles and rules of family living propelled by family constellation, family atmosphere and lifestyle are disrupted, increased conflict and tension emerge within the family system.


Objectives:

1) Participants will understand and learn how to apply the Adlerian Family Constellation construct to understand how lifestyle and social interest is developed within the family

2) Participants will be able to recognize, compare and apply theoretical constructs from family theorists, including Bowen, Satir, Whitaker, Minuchin, Adler and Dreikurs, in assessing family dynamics, motivation for behavior, and the effects of family conflict

3) Participants will be able to identify what motivates individual patterns of behavior within a family system that is affected by the individual’s feelings of inferiority, private logic, and the goals for behaviors.

4) Participants will learn how to apply Adlerian constructs of egalitarianism, reorienting the lifestyle, and the use of family meetings to encourage social cooperation within a family system.