Building clients' self esteem

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A practical one day workshop on a NEW therapeutic approach to self-esteem. Course's main learning points:

How to improve self esteem in very damaged clients with complex problems
Numerous worksheets and checklists to use with your clients to build their self esteem
A demonstration of three specific cognitive techniques to build self esteem
Learn which problems are due to clients’ self esteem being too high !….and its implications for practice
Building self esteem using non-verbal interventions
Find out how to make goal setting work with clients more effective
Why positive feedback does not always build self esteem ….and what to do to change it
Identify when to build clients’ self esteem by helping them to think more positively and when not to!
Help clients to build and use their social support networks to build their self esteem

Course Outline:

09.30 Registration & refreshments
10.00 What exactly is self esteem and what role does it play in peoples problems.
The evidence base for low self esteem as a causal factor. How addressing low self esteem can have an impact on underlying problems. Unhelpful high self esteem. Areas where Its contributes to problem formation. Cultural attitudes towards self esteem. The efficacy/ self worth distinction and its practical implications. How we maybe trying to build clients’ self esteem in the wrong way. Gender differences on self esteem and its implications for self esteem building work.
11.15 Refreshments
11.30 What leads people to develop healthy high self esteem and how can we use it to help our clients
12.00 Five key sources of self esteem and how to decide on which you need to focus on with your clients:
Self Efficacy, Positive Cognitions, Self Nurturing, Support & Help, & The Use Of Feedback
12.30 Developing Clients’ Self Efficacy
The use of positive role models in helping clients. Problem solving skills as a protective technique for clients. Goal setting and self esteem. Why goal setting often doesn’t work and how it can be made more effective. Increasing clients’ ability to influence and the role of assertiveness training.
13.00 Lunch break
14.00 Positive Cognitions
The role of negative thinking in low self esteem. The role of CBT in raising self esteem. A protocol for assessing your clients’ negative beliefs and thinking. Demonstration of three simple cognitive techniques for raising clients’ self esteem.
14.50 Raising Self Esteem Through Self Nurturing
Body maintenance vs. body enhancement as methods of raising self esteem. Case examples. The role of raising activity levels to enhance self esteem.
15.15 Refreshments
15.30 Social Support & Self Esteem
The role of the accepting relationships. Techniques for enlarging clients’ social networks. How low self esteem prevents clients perceiving current sources of social support and how to address this. Techniques to enable clients to use their existing social networks more effectively.
16.00 The use of feedback to enhance clients self esteem
Feedback and unhelpful high self esteem. A case example. Understanding what feedback really is and how to make it more effective with clients as a result.
16.30 Finish

Course Leader:

Paul Grantham
MSc, M.Clin.Psychol, C.Psychol

Paul is a clinical psychologist with a background within the NHS in community care. He currently trains extensively within the NHS, Social Services and the Independent sector on a range of therapy based topic areas. His interests currently lie in addressing obstacles to personal and behavioral change. An extensively informed, and humorous presenter, he emphasises the practical rather than just the theory of client based work