Learn more about how to become a Practical CE Seminars instructor and about new courses offered this month. Also, receive your discount for the Brief Relationship Workup course for 2 CEUs.
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July 26, 2010
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May 18, 2010
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April 25, 2010
Introduction to NLP on Blog Talk Radio!
You are invited to attend our free 1 hour Introduction to NLP broadcast on Blog Talk Radio at 12:30 pm on Thursday April 29th.
If you missed our live broadcast visit the Video section of this site to play the broadcast or download it to your IPod to listen to at your leisure. It was excellent and includes information on discounts to Dr. Holman’s upcoming 12-week NLP course. After listening to the broadcast you are also welcome to post questions to Dr. Holman here and he will answer within 24 hours.
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April 19, 2010
Earn 36 CEs and your NLP Practitioner Coach Certification (Level I)!
New NLP Course Beginning September 22, 2010. Join now!
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) offers powerful tools that add to your clinical effectiveness. Generally speaking, NLP techniques offer relief without the need to relive old stuff and at the same time, sets the stage for peak performance, improving relationships and getting out of the fear business through changing beliefs and the compounded belief strategies.
In this 12-week course you will:
• Ask questions to elicit a desired state without listening to hours of story.
• Consciously establish rapport through matching/mirroring of representation systems and body language.
• Utilize Anchoring techniques to bring resources into disempowered memory.
• As you begin to ‘Understand’, notice as Milton Erickson did get results, Now!
• Use language patterns, elicitation patterns, and ambiguities elegantly.
• Change Personal History
• Use Timelines
• Use the fast Phobia Cure & the Alergon Technique.
• Examine unconscious belief systems
For more information check out our course list.
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April 9, 2010
New Course – How Children Become Violent, by Kathryn Seifert, Ph.D.
We have just added a new course: How Children Become Violent, by Kathryn Seifert, Ph.D. It is an excellent course and you can earn 15 CEs! This month we are offering an introductory special, you can receive a 25% discount – just use discount code YDVZ on check out.
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March 30, 2010
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March 26, 2010
We Are Now an ASWB Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Provider
Practical CE Seminars has been approved as an ASWB Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Provider! This means that Social Workers in the following States can receive CEs for the online courses they take through our site:
Alabama, Alaska, Alberta (Canada), Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania (requires that courses be at least 2 credits), Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Virgin Islands, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming
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March 22, 2010
Revisiting Structural Family Therapy
Most of us have probably studied Structural Family Therapy as part of our graduate program, but now that we have been in practice for 2, 10, 15, or more years isn’t it time to revisit some of the classic approaches and strategies?
As you may recall, Salvador Minuchin, M.D. pioneered the field of Structural Family Therapy in the 1960s. His work is as meaningful and useful today as it was 5 decades ago! Minuchin’s approach is based on the work he did with delinquent pre-teen boys while he was Director of the Family Research Unit of the Wiltwyck School. In this position he studied the structure of the families of these boys, in an attempt to develop therapeutic approaches to help the acting-out child and the entire family.
Minuchin viewed the entire family as a system. He saw the family as a part of a larger system, such as the community, and as containing smaller subsystems. He identified 3 significant subsystems: the spousal subsystem, the parental subsystem, and the sibling subsystem. By observing how these subsystems interact, over time, the therapist can understand where the problems lie in the family. The therapist might ask: which subsystem is ruling the family? Are the boundaries between subsystems clear and firm yet flexible, or are they rigid? Are there overt or covert coalitions between the subsystems? And, what are the rules that govern the interaction between subsystems? By working with the family on changing a dysfunctional family structure, the therapist can help the family achieve a second-order change rather than just symptom reduction.
In Structural Family Therapy the therapist works from a position within the family, rather than as an observer, and may even use a family member as temporary co-therapist. From this position, the therapist can focus on the task of directed behavioral changes within the family.
Structural Family Therapy also helps the family see beyond the presenting problem and beyond the identified patient. The structural therapist views the identified patient as a signpost, drawing the therapist’s attention to the actual difficulties within the family structure.
Some of the advantages of Structural Family Therapy are that it can produce positive results very quickly. It can also be effective with extremely pathological families. Structural Family Therapy tends to be a very directive form of therapy, which provides the therapist with many opportunities to intervene.
In this practical course, the therapist will be reminded of the basic tenants of Structural Family Therapy. The therapist will learn how to gather information and how to use this information to assess a family from a structural point of view. The therapist will learn a variety of interventions and techniques that can be use with a family. And, finally the therapist will learn the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.
Visit Practical CE Seminars before April 1, 2010 to receive 30% off our online Structural Family Therapy course, and receive 3 CE credits in the process! Follow the link below to order your course:
http://www.practicalceseminars.com/OnlineCEClasses3.html#StructuralFamilyTherapy
When checking out, just enter the discount code: H5UD
Practical CE Seminars is approved to provide CE courses through BBS (provider# 4552), APA, NBCC (provider# 6433), ASWB (provider# 1211), NAADAC (provider# 736), and CAADAC (provider# 2N-09-120-0611). Visit our accreditation page at www.practicalceseminars.com for a full description of our approval status.
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March 14, 2010
We are now on Blog Talk Radio
We just hosted our 1st show on Blog Talk Radio – An Introduction to Practical CE Seminars. Listen to our show at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/practicalceseminars
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January 16, 2010
Body art and deviant behavior: Study finds link between multiple tattoos, piercings and trouble by Steve Johnson
Interesting article in the Chicago Tribune on body piercing and tattoos among university students. Not surprisingly, the study finds that “The more body art you have, the more likely you are to be involved in deviance,” but students who have just 1 tattoo or piercing are not prone to more deviant behavior. The full study will be published in March in the Social Science Journal.
What has your experience been working with clients with multiple tattoos and piercings? Have you also found they are prone to more deviant behavior? Are they more prone to self-harm?
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/chi-talk-tattoos-bad-behaviorjan13,0,4187809.column
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