Beyond Anger Management: Choosing Value Over Power
Steven Stosny, Ph.D.

6 CE Credits
for Psychologists, Social Workers and
Professional Counselors and Therapists

April 9, 2010
Sheraton Washington North Hotel
Beltsville, MD
9:00 a.m. –  4:30 p.m.
$155/MPA members   $210/Nonmembers

Workshop Level:   Beginning to Intermediate Level Practitioners

If you have been in practice for more than a decade, you most likely have noticed more anger, resentment, bitterness, contempt, and entitlement showing up in your office. What’s more, a generation of clients weaned on media therapists and self-help books want quick solutions to complicated problems and they want them in easy-to-digest bullet format. An effective way to engage “entitled” clients in whatever longer term treatment you think would be best for them is to start with techniques to reduce resentment and anger by raising self value. In this workshop, we will discuss the function of anger and resentment, especially in relationships. We will explore an approach that helps clients use their deepest values as a vehicle for change, and hold onto their sense of value even in the midst of arguments, so they can negotiate differences without feeling put down or making other feel that way. Included in the workshop is instruction in HEALS, which conditions a sense of core values, self-compassion, and compassion for others as an incompatible responses to the ego threats that cause most resentment and anger.

This workshop is designed to help you:

• Distinguish incompatible response from anger management techniques;
• Distinguish problem anger from other forms;
• Describe some of the cognitive impairments that occur during anger arousal;
• Use the deepest values of clients as motivation for change;
• Use the Core Value Bank to help clients make transitions from devalued to valuing states;
• Begin the practice of HEALS (it must be rehearsed for several weeks to become automatic).

About the Presenter:

Steven Stosny, Ph.D., is the founder of CompassionPower in suburban Washington, DC. Dr. Steven Stosny’s most recent book are, How to Improve Your Marriage without Talking about It: Finding Love beyond Words, and Love without Hurt. He has appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, “The Today Show”, “CBS Sunday Morning”, and in the New York Times, Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, WSJ, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, O, Psychology Today, and USA Today. He has treated over 6,000 clients for various forms of anger, abuse, and violence. Dr. Stosny has taught at the University of Maryland and at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

Registration Details:

Registration deadline is one week prior to the workshop date. Registrations made after that date are subject to available space and a $10 late fee.

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Cancellation Policy:

Full refund up to one week prior to workshop date. No refunds thereafter, except in cases of participant illness (with timely notice to MPA) or cancellation by MPA.