Course Overview
Clients universally seek treatment when they experience an intolerable loss of power. They feel overwhelmed by out of control moods, impulses, relationships and life situations. Empowerment based cognitive therapy restores the client's sense of power and agency to make their lives better or meaningful.
In this workshop we will
- Cover the theoretical basics of empowerment and disempowerment.
- Examine how clients' power is taken from them.
- Consider cognitive therapy techniques to 'disempower' the forces of disempowerment and to strengthen the client's abilities to thrive.
- Learn how these techniques can be integrated into the treatment of a variety of clinical challenges and can be integrated into various approaches of analytic and client centered psychotherapies.
- With the use of role plays and in-vivo experiments, we will reveal how true personal empowerment can transform the lives of our clients.
Joshua Mark, Ph.D, MSW
Rabbi Dr. Josh Mark is a social worker, psychologist
and teacher. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University and Columbia
University. A psychotherapist for the last 30 years, he has great
passion for helping empower clients. Having studied cognitive therapy
under Aaron and Nancy Beck at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Mark
uses cognition and emotion as bridges to full living. He's the author of
Returning To Joy: A Jewish Self Care Guide For Overcoming Depression,
The Power Of The Positive: Restoring Joy And Spirit To Life, and Take My
Hand: A Primer To Jewish Mindfulness. Dr. Mark lives in Jerusalem with
his family. His practice is based in Jerusalem but through the magic of
technology, his clients are spread around the world.
