Webinar Description
Old wounds and resentments toward parents can negatively impact adults as they raise their own children or relate to their partner. In this workshop, Dr. Fishbane will explore ways to facilitate healing & dialogue in distressed relationships between adults and their families of origin, especially parents. Utilizing a resilience-based view & a relational-neurobiological approach, this workshop addresses family legacies & loyalties, resentment and blame, cutoffs, differentiation, boundaries, power, guilt, repair, and forgiveness. Gender-based and cultural beliefs that affect intergenerational relationships will inform the discussion. The neurobiology underlying emotional reactivity will be explored, along with interventions to facilitate emotional intelligence, relational empowerment, and healing where possible between the generations. Theory and techniques, with case illustrations, will be offered to facilitate intergenerational repair, promoting positive interactions and legacies into the future.
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Qualifications:
Agenda:
Intergenerational family distress; family legacies; dynamics & neurobiology of reactivity; impact of unfinished business from the family of origin on current relationships; cultural factors in intergenerational relationships. Lecture, Power Point, Case Examples, Discussion (90 minutes)
Interventions: Facilitating healing & relational empowerment skills in intergenerational relationships: Empathy, curiosity, respect; multiple narratives; building trust. Cultivating skills of repair, including apology and forgiveness. Lecture, PowerPoint, Case Examples, Discussion (90 minutes)
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to utilize key ideas from interpersonal neurobiology relevant to emotional functioning in intergenerational relationships
- Participants will be able to identify problematic dances of reactivity between adults and their families of origin, and ways to intervene to facilitate change in the intergenerational family
- Participants will be able to utilize neuroplasticity, the ability of the adult brain to change, to empower clients in their change process
- Participants will be able to help clients become more relationally empowered and compassionate in their intergenerational relationships.
This presentation is open to:
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an intermediate level ,and is beneficial for an intermediate level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
This Webinar Offers 3 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.
- This program is co-sponsored by NEFESH International and Therapy Express. NEFESH International is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. NEFESH International maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- NEFESH International, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0116.
- NEFESH International 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-0046
- NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Mental Health Counselor #MHC-0082
- NEFESH International 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 #SW-0048.