Dr. Brad Sachs is a psychologist, educator, consultant and best-selling author specializing in clinical work with children, adolescents, couples, and families, in Columbia, Maryland, and the Founder and Director of The Father Center, a program designed to meet the needs of new, expectant, and experienced fathers.
Dr. Sachs regularly writes articles on family life for magazines such as Redbook, Parenting, Parents, Child, and American Baby, is renowned for his creative and innovative treatment of children and families, and has lectured and led seminars and workshops both nationally and internationally. He has been interviewed on over three hundred radio and television shows, including The Today Show, 20/20, The Montel Williams Show, The Sally Jesse Raphael Show, and The Diane Rehm Show.
He is a graduate of Brown University, where he met his wife, Dr. Karen Meckler, a psychiatrist and medical acupuncturist, and together they have raised their three young adult children and assorted rescue dogs in Columbia, Maryland.
The Good Enough Therapist: Futility, Failure and Forgiveness in Treatment
It is the nature of being human to quest and to fail. Psychotherapy is unique amongst clinical enterprises in that failures in treatment, when understood and managed well, can actually serve the needs of the patient as well as the practitioner. Our capacity to fully experience, rather than fretfully sidestep, inescapable feelings of futility, helplessness and despair when we are in therapeutic contact is one of the great gifts that we can offer those who consult with us. By investigating and interrogating the creative tension between feeling sufficient and insufficient, doubtful and certain...Read more, graceful and inept, workshop participants will begin to encounter a deeper recognition of their own, and their patients’ vulnerability, resilience, imagination, and humanity. Accepting the inevitability of disappointing our patients, and of being disappointed by them, lays the groundwork for reciprocal healing and a mutually expanded capacity for self-recognition and self-realization. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Identify the three (3) dimensions of forgiveness between therapist and patient that can help to dissolve stuck-points in treatment
- Identify at least five (5) clinically maladaptive responses when faced with treatment that seems to have run aground
- Identify the four (4) components of grieving that help therapists to come to terms with their limitations as clinicians, and help patients come to terms with their limitations as individuals
Learning Levels
- Advanced
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Live Interactive Webinar
10:00 AM EST - 01:15 PM EST
EARN 3 CE Credit Hours
About the speaker
Brad Sachs, PhD
CE Information - Earn 3 CE Credit Hours
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