Internal Family Systems Therapy: Step-by-Step Procedures for Healing Traumatic Wounds and Alleviating Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Addiction and More (Dec 02, 2019)

Internal Family Systems Therapy: Step-by-Step Procedures for Healing Traumatic Wounds and Alleviating Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Addiction and More is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Dec 02, 2019 at Fort Collins Marriott, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) / 6.0 clock hours.

Target Audience:
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Addiction Counselors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Therapists
• Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields

Description:
After decades of clinical innovation and recent scientific research, the empirically validated Internal Family Systems (IFS) model has been shown to be effective at improving clients’ general functioning and well-being. This effective model provides clinicians with procedures for helping clients with the most challenging mental health profiles to heal the wounded, burdened, and traumatized parts of their systems.

The IFS model provides a compassionate, respectful, non-pathologizing approach to understanding the organization and functioning of the human psyche.

The transformative IFS approach embraces and celebrates the natural multiplicity of the mind. Its assumption that every part of the system has good intention and valuable resources allows clinicians to approach even the most troubling of “symptoms” with compassion and respect. IFS offers therapists a powerful and effective set of tools for empowering clients with a wide range of clinical profiles to heal the wounded and burdened parts of their internal systems, resulting in:

• a way to enter clients’ inner ecology without the overemphasis on containment and stabilization
• symptom reduction and improved functioning for clients
• deep self-healing within even the most troubled clients
IFS is a powerful treatment modality. Once you experience it, you will want to incorporate it into your practice.

Objectives:
• Present the origins and development of the Internal Family Systems Model, including empirical support for the model and the current status of research using IFS to treat posttraumatic stress disorder.
• Provide an in-depth overview of IFS theory, basic principles, assumptions of the model and its treatment implications.
• Describe the three major components of the psyche as outlined by IFS (parts, burdens, and the Self) including the characteristics of and assumptions regarding each component as they relate to clinical practice.
• Discuss the goals of IFS therapy and case conceptualization through an IFS lens.
• Provide a grounding in IFS procedures and techniques that can be implemented immediately in clinical and personal work, including the steps for facilitating the development of Self-Part relationships.
• Summarize the steps of healing and unburdening wounded parts of the system in session.

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Deanna Vincent

Public Health