The Heart and Soul of Therapeutic Change

While the client is the heart of therapeutic change, the relationship between the provider and client is the soul of therapeutic change. Therapists explore many pathways to improve the therapeutic alliance, but what really works?

In this 2-hour continuing education web conference, Dr. Barry Duncan will address the following three strategies to improve the therapeutic alliance: 

1. Rallying consumer resources to the cause of change. 
2. Giving the alliance the attention that research suggests it deserves. 
3. Using systematic client feedback about the benefit of services and the quality of the alliance to involve consumers in all decisions that affect their care.

Dr. Duncan will also discuss the Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS). PCOMS provides an early warning system that identifies people who are not responding to therapy, allowing clinicians to keep clients engaged while collaboratively seeking new directions. Because of the research conducted by Dr. Duncan and colleagues, PCOMS is included in the U.S. National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices. PCOMS has been implemented across the U.S., Canada, and 20 other countries.

This introductory instructional level web conference is designed to help clinicians:

1. List the factors that contribute to change in psychotherapy.
2. Describe the specific strategies used by providers to improve outcomes by spending more time on resource activation.
3. Describe the specific strategies used by providers to improve outcomes by forming better alliances. 
4. Demonstrate how to use a simple early warning system for early identification of clients who are not dramatically improving and increase effectiveness.
5. Explain how eliciting client feedback about the alliance and outcome enables new directions in treatment and brings clients back in who would have otherwise not benefited.

If you have questions about this web conference, please contact us here.

Continuing Education (CE) Information

2 CE contact hours will be provided by GoodTherapy for attending this web conference in its entirety. 

GoodTherapy is an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within Counseling Services. 

GoodTherapy is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

GoodTherapy.org, provider #1352, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 3/30/2022 – 3/30/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.

GoodTherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. GoodTherapy.org received APA approval in May 2011. Events after 2011 may meet APA requirements for Continuing Education credits.

GoodTherapy, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0395.

GoodTherapy, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.
 

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

Premium and Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to this web conference at no additional cost. Not yet a member? Sign up for a Premium or Pro Membership, here.

Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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