PRPress Online Courses

*This selection is for the Final Exam only. Access to the book, Making Room for the Disavowed: Reclaiming the Self in Psychotherapy, is required to complete the exam. If you already have access to the book, click the "Buy" button above to continue. To order the e-Book from Guilford Press (which enables you to take the course immediately), click here. To order the paperback book from PRP, click here.

This course explores powerful clinical strategies to make room for aspects of the self that were sidetracked in the course of development. We learn how early attachment experiences can lead people to turn away from certain thoughts and feelings, building a sense of self and ways of interacting on only a limited range of adaptive resources. The author's approach draws on psychodynamic, humanistic, systemic, and acceptance-centered cognitive-behavioral perspectives, as well as attention to the impact of race, class, and culture. Filled with rich case material, the course illuminates how a therapeutic approach anchored in the present can help heal the wounds of the past.

20 CE credits/hours, 136 questions

Target Audience

Psychologists | School Psychologists | Marriage & Family Therapists | Mental Health Counselors | Social Workers

Learning Level

Intermediate

Learning Objectives

• Identify common vulnerabilities that psychodynamic and cognitive therapies share.
• Explain why “information silos” are being increasingly recognized as a problem.
• Describe the consequences when “evidence-based therapy” is defined in a narrow way.
• Explain the advantage that process-outcome studies have when applied to studies of psychotherapy.
• Assist patients in identifying how their behavior signals to others what they are comfortable with in interpersonal relationships.
• Trace the history of Freud’s thinking about the role of anxiety in repression.
• Argue the differences between Beck’s cognitive therapy and the larger field of cognitive behavior therapy.
• Explain how attachment theory is a natural point of extension for the cognitive behavioral world.
• Trace the connection between early parental messages and the behavioral patterns of patients.
• Explain the importance of lived experience as it relates to behavior change.
• Assist patients in exploring the often invisible influence of culture and society on their behavior, as well as the effects of material circumstances and structural impediments.
• Integrate the lens of the “make room” perspective into therapeutic work with patients.