The silence around shame allows it to build, leading to the develop interpersonal defense mechanisms to manage the intensity of the pain. These defenses act as self-preservation but can also lead to mental health challenges, interpersonal conflicts, complacency, and lack of self-efficacy. This course will explore shame and how to build a capacity to face and find healing from shame stories and develop resiliency to protect us, as practitioners, as well as our clients
This workshop is designed for mental health practitioners working directly with clients. This may include professional counselors, therapists, social workers, and case managers, etc.
Continuing Education: 0.7 CEUs/7 CEHs.
Understand the development of shame in both clients and practitioners, including how to respond to your own shame narrative of your clients
Consider the roles your own shame has played into the crisis interactions and ways to remove this and move to a space of responsive action versus reactivity or shame-response.
Brainstorm longer-term care responses and transition ideas for moving clients and families out of the crisis cycles of shame as well as how to treat shame as a more intensive and prolonged issue