The Role of Spirituality in Mental Health: Case Examples
| Presenter: | Marcia Perlstein, MA |
| When: | Wednesday, May 2, 2007 |
| Time: | 1:30 pm - 4:45 pm |
| Where: | 4526 Federal Avenue, The Sanders Bldg. (Bldg. 2), Everett, WA |
| Fee: | $60; Associated Provider Network discount price $45 |
Description
We will focuse on specific case examples that demonstrate the intersection of mental health and spirituality. Marcia will present situations where the client introduces spirituality in the mental health setting, as well as situations where the therapist carefully offers a range of spiritual tools to assist and comfort the client, while aiding the therapeutic process. Extreme situations involving spirituality and religion that may block the therapeutic process will also be discussed.
Although this is a follow-up to the workshop offered on January 24th, participants need not have attended Part 1 to attend this workshop. If you did not attend the January workshop, you may find it useful to explore your own relationship to religion and spirituality in your work with clients prior to attending this workshop. Participants will have ample opportunity to raise questions about their own comfort level with spirituality/religion and how it impacts their work.
Goals of this Workshop
Participants will:
- Learn to present cases that are either successful or problematical in the realm of the intersection between therapy and religion/spirituality.
- Learn tools such as meditation, journal writing, guided visualization to aid and abet the above process.
- Learn to identify and treat problematical uses of spirituality/religion in a therapy setting.
About The Presenter
Marcia Perlstein has been a practicing therapist, and trainer of new and veteran therapists in Berkeley and San Francisco since 1967, and now in Sequim, Washington.
Ms. Perlstein is an American Association of Marriage Family Therapists (AAMFT), an accredited supervisor of supervisors, and a consultant to staffs and training programs around the country for pre-licensed as well as veteran therapists. For the past forty years, she has trained in a variety of spiritual arenas including Self-Acceptance Training, Gestalt, Vipassana meditation and Sensory Awareness. She was a recent presenter at the First International Creative Art Therapy Conference in Tokyo, Japan training mental health professionals in the use of guided visualization and creative writing tools as adjuncts to verbal therapy interventions.
CEU Credit
This workshop is approved for 3 CEUs by the Washington Chapter, National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for Licensed Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors.
Registration
You may register for this workshop by mail or by faxing the registration form to 425-349-8496.
Payment
Payment may be made by check, purchase order, or credit card.
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