GEORGIA SOCIETY OF ADLERIAN PSYCHOLOGY

8am-5pm (7 Clock Hours)

Exploring Personal Uniqueness Through Art: Understanding and Fostering of the Individual Strengths in Our Personalities, Embodied Expressions, and Social Engagements

Marta Stefanyshyn, MS, Ed.S., LPC

Join me for a day of fun, creative self-expression through drawings, paintings, and group activities. No artistic skills are required to participate in this workshop. All of the activities are simple and designed to bring out the unique strengths and potentials we all have. Learn how these exercises can be useful in the therapy process with children, adults, and groups.

Participants will:

1) Learn about Adlerian principles such as individual uniqueness, humans’ creative potentials, and various forms of personal expressions, including embodied and meaningful expression.

2) Learn how our unique character is formed and how engagement in life experiences reveal our uniqueness.

3) Learn creative art techniques that can be used in the therapy process.

4) Engage in experiential art activities and group exercises that allow for the exploration of Adlerian principals and empathic understanding of the break up experience in case narratives.

7:45am-12:15pm (4 Clock Hours)

Using the BASIS-A Inventory as an Assessment Tool in Clinical Supervision

Susan Belangee, PhD, LPC, NCC, ACS

The utility of the BASIS-A as an assessment tool and as a developmental process in supervision will be discussed. By knowing oneself better, supervisors will learn how to avoid pitfalls and power struggles with supervisees, and in turn supervisees will understand the impact of their lifestyles on the counseling process.

Objectives:

1) Understand the purpose of the BASIS-A Inventory in Adlerian lifestyle assessment and, by taking it themselves, they will further understand how to interpret it in the counseling and supervision settings.

2) Synthesize their knowledge of supervision with an Adlerian model for conducting supervision that highlights theoretical constructs, including lifestyle, and their relevance to the development of their supervisees.

8:45-12pm (3 Clock Hours)

Sailing the Seven C’s: Adlerian Couples Counseling

Gary Bauman, PhD, LPC, CPCS

Adler acknowledged that intimate relationships were one of the most significant tasks of life. To succeed, the task requires much social interest and cooperation. Unfortunately, couples often feel defeated when relationships seem to capsize and they seek out help from clinicians who can guide them through treacherous waters and help keep the relationship afloat.

Objectives:

1) Provide a foundation and an overview of couples therapy from an Adlerian standpoint, highlighting many of the Adlerian tenets and challenges that will occur in couples therapy.

2) Provide a discussion and demonstration for conducting an Adlerian counseling session with couples and the stages that such counseling would likely go through.

Lunch & Learn for the first 30 minutes

12:30pm-3:45pm (3 Clock Hours)

Ethics and Clinical Supervision: The Clinical Supervisors’ Knowledge Bowl

Jody Housker, PhD, NCC, ACS, NBCCH, LPC

Participants will create teams to compete in a variety of games developed to focus on ethics knowledge useful to clinical supervisors. This will be a laugh and learn session which encourages a spirit of belonging, cooperation, the courage to be imperfect, and humor. Take your ethics seriously but not yourself.

Participants will:

1)  Review the ACA code of ethics as it relates to supervision.

2) Have the opportunity to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the ACA code of ethics and terminology.

DOORS to each presentation will be closed 15 minutes after the start of the session.
No one will be allowed to enter the session after this time.
Continuing Education credit will not be provided to those missing more than15 minutes of the session attended.



Disclaimer: The presentations are for educational purposesonly. The material presented is not intended to represent the
only or best approaches and participants waive any claim they may have against GSAP for assurances on information presented. Due to conference topics, only those registered for the conference will be permitted to attend workshops.