Solution Focused Therapy and Depression: Using the iPhone as the iTherapist

Description

(4 CPD points)

Date: 12 June 2020
Time: 08h00 – 12h30
Place: 4A 12th Ave, Parktown North, Johannesburg
Price: R780-00
Presenter: Dr Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs

Course Outline:

Client’s that are experiencing depression are often stuck in a state of hopelessness, where the future looks bleak and the past is full of dreaded moments. However, the problem is not always present. There are always moments when things are a little better, a moment where things have been a little more hopeful. In today’s world all our clients have cellphones, in actual fact; we use our cell phones as an extension of ourselves.  This short course will focus on how to incorporate the cell phone into your session with a client experiencing depression. We will explore using Solution Focused Therapy principles and incorporating them with the technology on the phone to find goals and hope. We will look at making movies of a preferred future on the client’s cell phone, accessing music on the cell phone as metaphors of hope and looking at the clients photographs on his/her cell phone to elicit images of sparkling moments and past exceptions. The cell phone is an under-utilized resource and can add valuable information to your session. As this is a Solution Focused short course, we will be unpacking what the client wants and ways to get there and not what depression means and how it started. This is a funky, creative and technological savvy little course that focuses on techniques to help clients deal with their lives differently.

Aims of the Course:

• Teach basic principles Solution Focused Therapy
• Use the smart phone or cell phone as a resource in therapy
• Explore using photographs on the client’s phone as exceptions of coping and feeling better
• Utilise the phone to make small movies of hope and a preferred future
• Use music as a reminder of strengths and goals
• Utilize the phone as a visual aid to guide and support clients through depression.

Outcomes of the Course:

On completion of the course the participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles of Solution Focused Therapy
• Uncover strengths and exceptions on the client’s phone despite depression
• Uncover goals and preferred futures with clients through using resources on their phone
• Utilize technology as a therapeutic aid

Reading List:

• Froerer, A et al 2018: SFBT and client managing trauma. Oxford University Press: New York
• von Cziffra-Bergs, J 2018: Creative Solution Building. Solution Focused Institute of South Africa: Johannesburg