From Oppression to Liberation: Applying the Cognitive Therapy of Oppression and Other Strategies

This presentation reframes, reorients, and integrates our basic understanding of the major theories of psychotherapy and provides a new range of evidence based techniques. The classical psychotherapy theories were historically conceived and developed by privileged white males who generally did not at the time consider addressing the global phenomenon of oppression and its alleviation. As a result classical theories assume that American culture is basically sane and sound. This may have caused a blind spot in the practice of both counseling and diagnosis that largely ignores phenomena such as s...Read moreystemic racism, misogyny, homophobia, and oppression in general. And of course, trauma is intimately intertwined with oppression. Multicultural therapy could be seen as an admirable fix to this problem, but it largely functions as an add-on to compensate for the shortcomings of the classical theories—just another chapter in the theories textbook. This workshop provides a cognitive, humanistic, experiential, global reframe of the counseling and psychotherapy enterprise that shifts the focus toward liberation, true empowerment, and a greater degree of freedom from oppression for clients. But the major focus of this presentation is to provide advanced techniques that are specifically oriented around the theme of liberation from oppression, with major, second-order, change as their goal. This topic is especially relevant for this time period. Less...

Learning Objectives

Discuss how to apply advanced techniques for clients of oppressed cultures and families
Explain the limits of CBT and other standard therapies in the context of oppression and liberation
Explain how oppressed people are typically highly perceptive, including being perceptive of their therapists

Learning Levels

Saturday, October 09, 2021

Live Interactive Webinar

11:00 AM EDT - 02:15 PM EDT

EARN 3 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

Fred J. Hanna, PhD

Professor and co-designer of the PhD Program in Counseling at Adler University

Fred J. Hanna, Ph.D., is a professor and co-designer of the PhD Program in Counseling at Adler University, in Chicago. He is also a Senior Faculty Associate at Johns Hopkins University where he taught graduate counseling courses for 25 years, including 11 years full time, leaving as a Full Professor. Fred has authored or co-authored over 70 peer reviewed and professional publications. An award-winning teacher, he has also delivered over 500 presentations at conferences, seminars, trainings, and workshops, across America. He was the recipient of the 2019 Humanistic Impact Award, a national award granted by the Association for Humanistic Counseling. He was also the recipient of the Adler University Social Justice Award for 2020. Fred has served as a consultant and trainer to the medical, mental health, corrections, business, and education communities, including such places as the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, the Fort Peck Sioux Reservation in Montana, the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University, and a wide variety of school systems, community agencies, prisons, and criminal justice settings from coast to coast. His research interests have focused on developing the Precursors Model of Change which has received international attention. He has also developed, published, and presented many evidence-based, innovative psychotherapy techniques and strategies designed for application in the areas of client motivation, resistance to therapy, addictions, diversity and multiculturalism, oppression, liberation, trauma, spirituality, criminality, defiant adolescents, personal development, and difficult personalities. He is also an accomplished world traveler, having explored many remote areas in Asia. Fred is the author of the book, Therapy with Difficult Clients: Using the Precursors Model to Awaken Change, now in progress for its 2nd Edition. He and his Precursors Model were also the focus of a DVD, Treatment with Defiant, Aggressive Adolescents. The original book, the 2nd Edition, and the DVD are all published by or under contract with the American Psychological Association (APA). Fred is also currently working on a book that outlines and describes a new model of psychotherapy that includes many innovative new techniques, including variations on the themes of existentialism, mindfulness, Buddhist, and Yoga psychology.

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