American Board of Clinical Social Work

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Most therapists have had the experience of feeling that a treatment is being derailed and perhaps headed for failure. The neurodynamic couple therapist must understand what is being relived during couples’ repetitive conflicts, rather than focusing on one or both partners’ individual issues.

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Therapist Psychiatric Disorder 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

JUNE 11, 2023

Our training histories as therapists have unfortunately tended to focus more on the first definition. Therapists tend to spend too much time dwelling on how to get their clients to stop resisting, rather than seeing a client’s resistance as an important window into understanding what it has been like to be them.

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Therapist 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

APRIL 19, 2023

Anxiety often causes a conflict to be prematurely shut down — by either the couple or the therapist. It is often tremendously relieving to both partners to be told by the therapist that their conflicts are their brains’ attempts to move toward growth.

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Therapist Anxiety 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

JULY 9, 2023

In my opinion, Dan Wile (1993, 2021) was one of the most brilliant and effective couple therapists to ever live. While curiosity can be seen as a left-brain technique of the therapist, since it involves putting feelings into words, emotional dwelling is a right-brain process. pejorative word coming up) Stupid.

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Therapist Empathy Recovery 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

That is precisely the job of those two societal institutions, but not of the therapist. Most of us therapists are quite familiar with the instant visceral dislike we can feel for the partner who appears impervious to the pain in the relationship–the pain they are inflicting and the pain they are feeling themselves.

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Justice and Corrections Criminal Justice Therapist 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Too often couple conflicts make therapists anxious, and they prematurely shut down the most fertile ground for empathy and understanding. This should be an end-goal for the work; not the first reaction from the therapist. But this isn’t often the case, unless the therapist is working in a domestic violence setting.

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Domestic Violence Therapist Empathy 40

Social Work Blog

JUNE 1, 2022

Large hospital systems typically employ LMSW social workers because they have demonstrated clinical acumen and the ability to navigate practice scenarios. So why should students enter the realm of clinical social work in addiction? A clinical social worker is a professional juggler.

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Addiction LMSW Clinic Social Worker 97

American Board of Clinical Social Work

MARCH 10, 2022

Couples therapists are not responsible and cannot control the timing of a couple’s desire to be together or their readiness to use therapy. So, our clients’ right brains are in charge of the treatment; not us therapists. I was once treating a couple referred by the woman’s individual therapist.

Therapist 40

Therapist 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

AUGUST 11, 2022

A frequent complaint that therapists hear from couples when they enter treatment is that they have felt hurt by each other. They want to tell us all about the pain that their partner has inflicted on them, and they often seem to want the therapist to declare which one of them has been the “most” hurt.

Self-harm 40

Self-harm Therapist 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

MAY 11, 2023

Therapists in my consultation groups often ask, “What do I do when I try to get into family history and they just won’t go there?” There are a number of approaches therapists have used to do this exploration: “I see that you have strong feelings about xxxx. But often couples don’t want to talk about their pasts. Can you tell me more?”

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The Licensed Clinical Social Worker Exam

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Family systems theory may or may not show up on the licensed clinical social work exam. But the language of family systems theory can still come in handy, in clinical practice and in life. Family systems theory springs from the work of Murray Bowen (you'll sometimes see it labelled "Bowenian Family Therapy").

Clinical Social Work 40

Clinical Social Work Therapist Clinic 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The competent therapist who is utilizing these mechanisms must be attuned to material that triggers their own right-brain generated focus and attention. Something about the way he says “having to wait” creates a feeling within the therapist that something important has been said. Does it seem that they care about your waiting?

Therapist 40

Therapist Empathy 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Every skilled couples therapist needs to have some ideas about what to do when the treatment doesn’t seem to be working. However, the therapist should resist participating in any decisions about the relationship. In the end, it is up to the couple to decide whether to continue their relationship.

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Therapist Adoption 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

MARCH 13, 2023

Initially, the therapist assists the couple in exploring and developing an understanding of what they are nonconsciously attempting to expose through one of them being an unsafe partner. Often, the unsafe partner represents an inability to tolerate shame, which can be a primary unmetabolized feeling in both partners.

Domestic Violence 40

Domestic Violence Therapist Interviewing Engagement 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

JANUARY 10, 2023

Both of these definitions capture the felt sense that many of us therapists had through our training that repetition compulsion is essentially a negative process, although an inescapable part of human psychology that can be put to good use in a therapeutic relationship.

Therapist 40

Therapist Psychology 40

Social Workers Speak

JULY 28, 2023

Saloner, a well-known expert on raising resilient teens and young adults, has worked with children and families for over 30 years as a therapist, educator, speaker, event producer and coach. Her work has spanned the developmental spectrum from birth through young adulthood and specializes in raising resilient teens and young adults.

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Domestic Violence Mental Health LCSW Empathy 52

Social Workers Speak

AUGUST 18, 2022

Clinicians say their employer, Kaiser Permanente, is breaking state law by taking too long to connect patients with therapists. Angelo State University has added a new Doctor of Social Work (D.S.W.) in clinical social work degree program that is the first of its kind in Texas and the third doctoral degree now offered by ASU.

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Code of Ethics Psychotherapy Clinical Social Work Clinic 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

JANUARY 9, 2022

Every therapist will have their own ways of expressing their exploration questions and reflections. Therapist — “I’m not sure what you mean by ‘right’. Therapist — “I’d like to know what you mean when you use the word ‘monster’. Therapist — “What isn’t worth it? Needless to say, these are my words–merely suggestions.

Therapist 40

Therapist Empathy 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

APRIL 10, 2022

The appearance of dysregulated emotions show the therapist and the partner the out-of-control aspect of what their right brain has stored about their trauma. As the therapist, if you are feeling anxious or frightened by a client’s out-of-control behavior, say so.

Therapist 40

Therapist 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

MARCH 14, 2024

When a partner in the midst of describing a conflict in their relationship speaks a particularly impactful word or phrase that resonates within the therapist as meaningful, that “thread” is then repeated and “followed” with interest and curiosity. The primary technique we use to explore feelings is what we call “following threads.”

Empathy 40

Empathy Therapist Mental Health 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

MAY 11, 2022

The couples therapist is called upon to empathize with the shame of both partners, work toward eliminating blame, and help the partners verbalize the historical shame instead of getting stuck on continually processing only the affair.

Domestic Violence 40

Domestic Violence Substance Abuse Therapist Mental Health 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The therapist in this configuration can feel tremendously pulled toward identified patients, through either annoyance or sympathy. The skilled therapist must work to develop a deeper–and equally balanced–understanding and empathy for both partners’ contributions to their repetitive conflicts.

Therapist 40

Therapist Psychiatric Empathy Disorder 40

American Board of Clinical Social Work

JULY 11, 2022

The competent couples therapist is alert to the transition into more primitive states which must be transformed into words about the childhood trauma that has been awakened through current anger. Therapists have heard many stories about a partner who becomes violent and then feels horrified and ashamed about harming their mate.

Self-harm 40

Self-harm Therapist Empathy Communication 40

Social Workers Speak

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Mikaela Frissell is a member of NASW-TX: Dell Medical School receives gift to promote clinical social work The Daily Texan Social workers provide patient-centered care that accounts for all aspects of a patient’s health.

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Self-harm Social Worker LCSW Code of Ethics 52

American Board of Clinical Social Work

JUNE 13, 2022

I have frequently described the care that must be exercised by the therapist when the victim and perpetrator roles that are necessary to relive terror result in domestic violence. In this case, couples might be enacting not only their own terror, but that of their parents and even sometimes their grandparents.

Domestic Violence 40

Domestic Violence Therapist 40

Social Workers Speak

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Mikaela Frissell is a member of NASW-TX: Dell Medical School receives gift to promote clinical social work The Daily Texan Social workers provide patient-centered care that accounts for all aspects of a patient’s health.

Self-harm 40

Self-harm Social Worker LCSW Code of Ethics 40

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So, whether you’re considering a psychology program or an MSW program, or if you’re intrigued by the prospect of a bachelor’s degree in social work, join us on this enlightening journey as we uncover the depths of clinical social work and psychology. The answer is yes.

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Psychology Social Worker Mental Health Clinic 52