 Dr Ruth Wetherford, PhD ~ November 5, 2010
Alliant International University ~ San Francisco 9:00am-4:00pm ~ 6 HRs CE Credit Dr Wetherford is a licensed clinical psychologist who has served as a core faculty member at the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP), worked in community mental health, and maintained a busy private practice for 30 years. She has developed a timely specialization in helping people improve their relationships with money, as individuals and as members of a couple, family or community. Money is a most powerful symbol of value in our society, and feelings about money evoke more stress for most people than any other single thing. Yet we have all experienced the taboo against openly talking about it, because we sense that to do so may be dangerously revealing of aspects of our self esteem that are more comfortable hidden. In this workshop, Dr Wetherford will show how to make talking about money issues less stressful and more enjoyable, so that better money management can emerge. The purpose of the workshop is to help clinicians conceptualize and develop greater empathy about psychological issues embedded in their own and their clients' relationships to money: how and why we/they make it, spend it, save it, invest it and share it. Money as a vehicle for regulating attachment wishes and fears will be a prominent consideration. Activities during the workshop include: 1. Introduction of and historical approaches to the topic of money in psychotherapy; the cultural/professional taboo against addressing money by therapists. 2. Review of the concept of “money maturity”. Therapist know thyself: personal assessment tools for identifying areas of avoidance or conflict in the therapist's money matters that likely affect the therapy. 3. Money manifestations in the relationship between therapist and client/patient. Money focus in individual psychotherapy. Guidelines and experiential exercise/role playing. 4. Money management and conflict issues in couple therapy: tools and tips. Structured exercises for couples.. 5. Money issues in families: family of origin issues (how money is triangulated in conflicts) and transfer of wealth guidelines.. 6. Group discussion and practicing hypothetical situations with role play.. |
