Improving Treatment Effectiveness: Guide Therapy with Attachment Theory and Compassionate Self-Awareness
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR
Instructor: Leslie Becker-Phelps, Ph.D.
Instructional Level: Introductory
Duration: 1 hour
1 CE Credit for Psychologists
Price: $25
Description
Insecure attachment styles can make people vulnerable to, and exacerbate, psychopathology. In contrast, those with a secure attachment style have a greater sense of well-being, navigate relationships in a healthier way, and are more resilient to difficulties that arise. This presentation will briefly review attachment theory. Then it will address how to nurture in patients a more secure attachment style by guiding them to develop greater compassionate self-awareness. This approach provides an approach to treatment that can integrate well with various therapeutic approaches.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Describe how unhealthy relationships with self and others relates to insecure attachment and psychopathology
- Explain how developing secure attachment can improve treatment effectiveness.
- Demonstrate techniques to increase five fundamental domains of self-awareness.
Instructor Bio
Leslie Becker-Phelps is a licensed psychologist in New Jersey and New York. She treats individuals and couples from her NJ office, offering both in-office therapy and telehealth services, which she developed in particular to help women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She also offers guided self-help consultations internationally for those reading her work. She is on the medical staff at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital – Somerset. She has been on staff there since 1997 when it was Somerset Medical Center, where she had served as clinical director of Women’s Psychological Services and Chief of Psychology.
Dr. Becker-Phelps is a prolific writer. She wrote the books Insecure in Love and Bouncing Back from Rejection, both published by New Harbinger Publications. She was the consultant psychologist for Love: The Psychology of Attraction, a project by DK Publishing, which was nominated as a finalist for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s 2017 Books for Better Living. Dr. Becker-Phelps writes a blog called Making Change for the Psychology Today website. In addition, she is one of the staff editors for the New Jersey Psychological Association E-Newsletter.
Dr. Becker-Phelps does not have any commercial support and/or conflict of interest for this program.
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