Video Recording: Psychospiritual Strategies for Identity Related Issues

* This is a video recording of a continuing education session held on November 8, 2024.

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Description:

Clients who seek counseling due to many different issues frequently struggle with challenges to their identity, and it can be helpful for clinicians to understand the intersectional nature of this concept (Evans & Nelson, 2021; Nardon et al., 2021; PettyJohn, et al, 2020). Grief and loss, depression, anxiety, addiction, and relationship issues often challenge the client’s identity that is frequently connected to religious and/or spiritual definitions for gender roles and family expectations (Anders et al., 2021). Counselors also need to be aware of their own identity issues that can result in value imposition, fatigue, and professional burn-out (Klein & Beeson, 2022: Maor & Hemi, 2021). To address these contemporary challenges, psychospiritual strategies and interventions will be shared to help counselors and clients embrace, recall, develop, and redefine identity in healthy ways (Garwolińska et al., 2024: Simons, 2021).

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

• Understand identity from an intersectional perspective
• Design identity-related treatment goals
• Learn how to engage the client using psychospiritual interventions
• Practice reflective self-care to promote a deeper understanding of counselor identity

Speaker Bio:

Carol ZA McGinnis PhD, SIP, BC-TMH, NCC, LCPC is currently full Professor, Admission Chair, and Interim Clinical Mental Health Track Coordinator of the Graduate Counseling Program at Messiah University. Carol identifies as a person-centered humanistic counselor with investment in a psycho-spiritual foundation. Her research interests focus on anger as a positive emotion (www.anger.works), Xbox video gaming, and spirituality as important aspects of contemporary counseling. As chair of the ACPE Psychotherapy Commission, Carol works with a dedicated team to share programs (SIP and SCS) that integrate spirituality and psychotherapy in ethical, strategic ways (www.acpe.edu). Her clinical practice has included work with teens and troubled youth, geriatric populations, mobile therapy, community mental health counseling, private practice, and online TeleMental Health services.

Event Timeline:

9:00 – 9:15 AM: Introduction/nuts and bolts

9:15 – 9:30 AM: Learning Objective: Understand identity from an intersectional perspective

9:30 - 9:50 AM: Small Group Activity (10 minutes): Intersectional Identity Activity

10 minute processing

9:50 – 10:10 AM: Learning: Design identity-related treatment goals

10:10 – 10:30 AM: Large Group Activity (10 minutes): Case Scenario Application

10 minute processing

10:30 – 10:45 AM: Break

10:45 – 11:00 AM: Learning Objective: Learn how to engage the client using psychospiritual interventions

11:00 – 11:15 AM: Demonstration: Adlerian ER-FF, SFBT Miracle Question, Reality Therapy QW

11:15 – 11:30 AM: Learning Objective: Practice reflective self-care to promote a deeper understanding of counselor identity

11:30 – 11:45 AM: Small Group Activity (10 minutes):

5 minute processing

11:45 AM – 12:00 PM: Q & A, Evaluations

Event Venue

Online