Donald deGraffenried, LCSW
Friday, July 19, 2024 – in-person
9 am – 4:30 pm
6 CECs
Registration Fee: $150
10% discount for UConn SSW Alumni and current SSW Field Instructors
Client Affect Management involves working with your client to learn and practice specific relaxation skills that help with stress management and contribute to an increase in resiliency and coping. The goal is to help the client with a reduction of anxiety, an increase in self-esteem and an increased ability to be proactive in the management of personal distress.
Using an Ericksonian perspective, this seminar will draw from his successful techniques of introducing “state change” into the client’s perspective. The program is designed to provide clinicians with training and practice with proven Affect Management tools. These tools are structured to reduce client distress, increase positive states and engage a solution building process. Techniques include One Stone, Diaphragmatic Breathing, Healing Light Visualization, An Enhanced Safe Place and Heart Math.
These tools are appropriate for all age levels and will have direct application for practitioners working in community mental health, nonprofit agencies and private practice settings.
At the conclusion of this seminar, participants will:
- learn a one-minute relaxation tool and be able to teach it to clients
- be able to describe the core elements of positive affirmations
- learn Seven Basic Principle’s for success with clients
- have an opportunity to practice Affect Management tools
- be able to identify which tool(s) to use and when to use them in their practice with clients