I Don’t Wanna...You Can’t Make Me!
Psychodrama with Adolescents, Substance Abusers and other Reluctant Clients

Trainer: Rebecca Walters, MS LMHC LCAT TEP
May 27-29, 2010

Thursday 6 P.M.-9 P.M., Friday 9 A.M. - 5 P.M., Saturday 9 A.M.-4 P.M.
Location: Baltimore, Maryland

for information about overnight accommodations contact:
Patty Desert at (410)435-3755

Psychodramatic interventions that ‘go with the resistance’, honor defenses and are attuned to sociometry create the safety that help change barriers into open doors. This encourages individual and group warm up to spontaneity, healing and change. This workshop is especially useful for those working with adolescents, the chemically dependent and ‘acting out’ clients.

Together we will explore what is resistance? How does it get in the way? How does it serve us? How can we help our clients move beyond it ?

Participants will learn and practice:

Sociometric exercises that that increase group cohesion and safety
The Use of the Empty Chair
Doubling in group and individual work
The power of role reversal
Sociodrama
Participants will be taught a series of experiential structures that assist in helping reluctant clients make choices towards change.

Fee: Early registration discount until May 13. $375.
After May 13, $390.
16 Maryland Social Work CEUs certificate available at an additional cost of $30. Please add fee with registration and note that Social Work CEUs are requested.

Location: Church of the Redeemer
Women's Council Room
5603 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland

To register, send check or money order to:
Patty Desert, LCSW-C
208 East Melrose Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21212

For credit card payment contact Patty at (410)435-3755. There will be a 3% Visa/Mastercard surcharge.

REFUND POLICY
15 days prior to workshop: 100% refund
8-14 days prior to workshop: 50% refund
No refund with less than 8 days notice

~Space is limited...register early to avoid being closed out~

CEUS
Continuing education units provided by this training are accepted by National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC) and are accepted by NYS OASAS, National Board of Certified Counselors and towards recertification requirements for the National Registry of Group Psychotherapist as well as 16 hours towards certification by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy, National Drama Therapy Association and the American Society for Experiential Therapy.

TRAINER BIO

Rebecca Walters,M.S., TEP, LMHC, LCAT is the co-founder and co-director of the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute in New Paltz, NY. She is the Director of Adolescent and Child Psychodrama Services at Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital in Westchester, NY, She is also the director of the Four Winds Hospital psychodrama internship program. Rebecca has worked with adolescents and the dually diagnosed since 1976.

Rebecca Walters is a Fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, and is the 2010 recipient of their Hannah Weiner award. Along with Judy Swallow, she was the recipient of the ASGPP 2005 Collaborators Award for her work in the fields of psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy. She is certified as a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. She is licensed in NYS as a Creative Arts Therapist and as a Mental Health Counselor.