Description of Training:
Many of our clients have attention, emotional regulation, and interpersonal difficulties aggravated in part by one’s own dysfunctional daily management of technology. Addressing the need to manage one’s technology use has a similar refusal of the call as dealing with addiction. Our clients often bulk at the idea of change. We need to address this more directly in our therapy to get a holistic picture of our clients. The workshop will address how technology (iPhone, computers, AI, etc.) can be a factor in our client’s severity and functionality of their presenting problems. We will examine practical assessment questions on usage and functionality, motivational interviewing methods and intervention strategies to help us reclaim our attention, emotional centeredness and interconnectedness. Meets Cultural Competency CE requirement.
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding the Cultural Gap Model applied to group therapy.
- Explore how technology can positively and negatively impact us.
- Examine assessment questions on iPhone or computer use.
- Identify and delineate specific strategies to use in therapy to manage technology.
References:
Cytowic, R. (2024). Your stone age brain in the screen age: coping with digital distraction and sensory overload. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Haidt, J. (2024). The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness. New York: Penguin Press.
Slater, G. (2024). Jung vs Borg: finding the deeply human in a posthuman age. Arroyo Grande, California: Winter Press.
Swingel, M. (2019). i-Minds: how and why constant connectivity is rewiring our brains and what to do about it (2nd edition). Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers.
