Person of the Therapist (POTT)- Clinical Application Workshop

Person of the Therapist (POTT)- Clinical Application Workshop

Friday, January 27, 2023

Registration 8:30am Program 9am to 12pm

Presented By: Dr. Harry J. Aponte, PhD (h.c.), MSW, LCSW, LMFT

Location: Online Workshop

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3 CE Credits

Act 48 available

All therapy is conducted through the medium of the relationship between client and therapist. There are three basic components of the therapeutic process: the relationship, the assessment, and the intervention. It is through the humanity of the therapist that the empathic connection is made with the client, that the therapist understands and intuits what is driving the pathology in the client and clients’ relationships, and that the therapist reaches the most wounded and vulnerable places in the client when intervening. But, what is this “humanity”? It is the life experiences, gender, culture, race/ethnicity, spirituality, etc. of the therapist – but most especially the therapist’s own personal woundedness through which the therapist can relate to the client’s woundedness in the context of who the client is – gender, race, culture. We will present here on how therapists can more fully and effectively utilize all of their selves, taking their therapy to another level when working purposefully and professionally through their own person.

Objectives:

1. Summarize basic concept and techniques about Use of Self by therapist in therapeutic process.
2. Describe demonstration of therapist use of self in therapeutic process.
3. Identify various manners of using self in relating, assessing and intervening with clients.
4. Utilize an outline for training therapists to use their personal selves in their therapy.

Dr. Harry J. Aponte, PhD (h.c.), MSW, LCSW, LMFT, is a family therapist known for his writings and workshops on the person of the therapist, spirituality in therapy, therapy with disadvantaged and culturally diverse families, and structural family therapy. Dr. Aponte was a staff member and teacher of family therapy at the Menninger Clinic, and Director of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center. Dr. Aponte was clinical associate professor in the Couple & Family Therapy Program of Drexel University in Philadelphia.  He has conducted training and workshops throughout the country and abroad. He has a private practice and supervises in Philadelphia.

Dr. Aponte published Bread & Spirit through Norton, a book that speaks to therapy with today’s poor in the context of ethnicity, culture and spirituality. Dr. Aponte and Dr. Karni Kissil have edited a book entitled The Person of the Therapist Training Model: Mastering the Use of Self, published by Routledge.

PSCP: The Psychology Network is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PSCP: The Psychology network maintains responsibility for this program and its content.