Helping Trauma Patients Develop Resilience

Dr. Eger will address how mental health professionals can competently guide their patients who have experienced trauma - through a process which involves development of their inner resources, to help them move beyond the pain of the past. She will emphasize ways to devlop resiliency with the goal of helping these patients heal from trauma.

Dr. Edith Eger is a Clinical Psychologist, currently practicing in La Jolla, CA. She is the author of "The Choice: Embracing the Possible", and one of the last survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

• List several skills that will assist their patients to cope with unexpected and unanticipated feelings– by discovering their inner resources.
• Discuss ways they and their patients pay close attention to self-dialogue in efforts to prevent anticipatory anxieties and fears
• Show how gaining increased insight into the value for patients to re-visit past traumas and not to get stuck in them. The presentation will be insight-oriented with a cognitive adjunct.

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WHEN: Friday, May 1, 2020 from 7:30 - 8:30 pm


WHERE: Zoom (Online)


REGISTRATION (REQUIRED):

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErdeCsrz8vHd2iRozFC633dV0-SWUfw_Jb

COST: No fee

CEU:  1 credit
 

Fully accredited by the California Medical Association and the California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists. Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association.

Recognized by the California Board of Psychology, The California Medical Board, and the Board of Behavioral Sciences, as an approved provider of Continuing Education.