Spiritual Issues Within Treatment for Psychosis and Bipolar
Spiritual Issues Within Treatment for Psychosis and Bipolar, available at $89.99, has an average rating of 4.6, with 45 lectures, based on 155 reviews, and has 909 subscribers.
You will learn about Utilize cultural competence in addressing spiritual issues within a recovery oriented approach to bipolar and psychosis while working with diverse individuals Identify ways to integrate spiritual language and metaphors with scientific and psychological language and approaches Explain how the core issues in trauma, extreme moods and psychosis are commonly framed in spiritual terms, and how these relate to basic human dilemmas Click "see more" for details on Continuing Education Credit Assess extreme moods and psychosis as possibly involving attempts to resolve basic human dilemmas by accessing altered states & perceptions This course is ideal for individuals who are This course will primarily be of interest to mental health workers of various professions who work with people who have the kind of issues typically labeled as psychotic or bipolar disorders. or This course may also be of interest to people with lived experience of difficult mental states, and to family members and others who would like to better understand how spiritual issues intersect with mental health problems as well as better ways to talk about the issues that arise at that intersection. It is particularly useful for This course will primarily be of interest to mental health workers of various professions who work with people who have the kind of issues typically labeled as psychotic or bipolar disorders. or This course may also be of interest to people with lived experience of difficult mental states, and to family members and others who would like to better understand how spiritual issues intersect with mental health problems as well as better ways to talk about the issues that arise at that intersection.
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Summary
Title: Spiritual Issues Within Treatment for Psychosis and Bipolar
Price: $89.99
Average Rating: 4.6
Number of Lectures: 45
Number of Published Lectures: 45
Number of Curriculum Items: 45
Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 45
Original Price: $139.99
Quality Status: approved
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What You Will Learn
- Utilize cultural competence in addressing spiritual issues within a recovery oriented approach to bipolar and psychosis while working with diverse individuals
- Identify ways to integrate spiritual language and metaphors with scientific and psychological language and approaches
- Explain how the core issues in trauma, extreme moods and psychosis are commonly framed in spiritual terms, and how these relate to basic human dilemmas
- Click "see more" for details on Continuing Education Credit
- Assess extreme moods and psychosis as possibly involving attempts to resolve basic human dilemmas by accessing altered states & perceptions
Who Should Attend
- This course will primarily be of interest to mental health workers of various professions who work with people who have the kind of issues typically labeled as psychotic or bipolar disorders.
- This course may also be of interest to people with lived experience of difficult mental states, and to family members and others who would like to better understand how spiritual issues intersect with mental health problems as well as better ways to talk about the issues that arise at that intersection.
Target Audiences
- This course will primarily be of interest to mental health workers of various professions who work with people who have the kind of issues typically labeled as psychotic or bipolar disorders.
- This course may also be of interest to people with lived experience of difficult mental states, and to family members and others who would like to better understand how spiritual issues intersect with mental health problems as well as better ways to talk about the issues that arise at that intersection.
Mental breakdown, in the form of “bipolar” or “psychotic” episodes, may often be experienced as having aspects of “breakthrough.” Even amidst severe distress and disruption, attempts at deep healing may be detected. Many avoid discussing this for fear of “romanticizing” disturbed states, but such reluctance can lead to “awfulizing” experiences instead and can impair engagement in treatment and reduce its effectiveness.
Research suggests that in the US, approximately 25-39% of people diagnosed with schizophrenia and 15-22% of those diagnosed with mania/bipolar disorder have beliefs that mental health professionals call “religious delusions.” But when people are told that their experiences and beliefs have no value and are simply due to an illness, they tend to either fight back and defend their perspectives in a rigid way, or they shift to attempting complete suppression of what they now see as their “sick” perspectives and experience. Unfortunately, neither of these two reactions have been found likely to lead to lead to recovery.
If reality, and our brains, were simple, then simplistic approaches to mental health would probably succeed more frequently.
This course is designed for people who are open to considering more complex possibilities. What if it’s often not possible to clearly distinguish dangerous and unhelpful states of mind from states that may be spiritually significant and helpful, or part of an attempt to heal from past traumas? Is there a way to approach these questions in a less black and white way, helping people to find their own answers, and/or ways of living with questions that don’t seem to have answers? Might that work better than trying to impose dominant cultural viewpoints and ways of being organized, which themselves may be flawed?
Whatever your spiritual perspective may be, or even if you see yourself as definitely non-spiritual, you can learn to acknowledge that there are deep questions about human existence that are often seen as spiritual, and to recognize the ways mental and emotional crisis often involves confusion around these questions. Then, with that awareness in mind, you can learn how to support people to possibly find their own way to shift from distress and confusion to deep healing and integration.
The course will take 6 hours to complete.
Course Curriculum
Chapter 1: Introduction
Lecture 1: Information about Taking This Course
Lecture 2: Introduction and Definition of "Spiritual Issues"
Chapter 2: Distinguishing Mental Disorders from Spiritual Experiences and Concerns
Lecture 1: Navigating Cultural Dilemmas Around Spirituality, Religion, & "Mental Illness"
Lecture 2: Reflections on the Cultural Dilemmas Video
Lecture 3: Can Disruptive Spiritual Experiences Be Distinguished from Mental Disorders?
Chapter 3: The Up Side of Going Out of One's Mind
Lecture 1: Finding Value in Experiences and Perspective "Outside of One's Mind"
Lecture 2: The Importance of Breakdowns and Mental Revolutions
Lecture 3: Introducing the Renewal Model of Mental Breakdown and Psychosis
Lecture 4: History: From Seeing Madness & Spirituality as Intertwined, to Role Differences
Chapter 4: Madness, Mystery, and Contested Meanings
Lecture 1: Finding the Space Between Dogma and Being Lost in the Mystery
Lecture 2: Contesting Concepts, Contesting Meanings
Lecture 3: A Personal Story of Questioning Everything, Revolution and Renewal
Chapter 5: Spiritual and Existential Paradoxes and Polarities
Lecture 1: Feeling We Will Be OK No Matter What Happens: Helpful & Big Trouble!
Lecture 2: Recognizing the Down Side of Balance and Stability
Lecture 3: Extreme Spiritual Views: Sometimes Helpful, Sometimes Not
Lecture 4: Polarity Diagrams, Love vs. Hate, Good vs. Evil
Lecture 5: When Paradoxes Aren't Acknowledged, Rigidity Becomes a Problem
Lecture 6: A Chinese Tale About "Good," "Bad," and "Maybe"
Chapter 6: Trauma, Dissociation, and the Role of Loose Associations in Healing
Lecture 1: Expanded Sense of Meaning and Spiritual Opening
Lecture 2: Trauma, Dissociation, and Opening to the Light
Lecture 3: The Renewal Model, In More Depth
Chapter 7: Metaphor, Imagination, and Self Organization
Lecture 1: Mania, Metaphor, and Possibilities for Healing
Lecture 2: Self Organization, Metaphor, and the Complementarity of Sanity and Madness
Lecture 3: Imagination, Madness, and Spirituality
Chapter 8: The Fundamentals of Being Helpful
Lecture 1: First, Avoid Common Mistakes that Cause Harm
Lecture 2: An Overview of What Helps: Taking Spiritual Issues Seriously
Lecture 3: Obstacles to Talking About Spiritual Issues Within Treatment
Lecture 4: Encouraging Multiple Viewpoints: Becoming Dialogical & Archetypal Amplification
Lecture 5: Personal Vulnerability vs. Spiritual Transcendence: Avoiding "Spiritual Bypass"
Chapter 9: Using Mindfulness & Compassion Focused Approaches
Lecture 1: Getting in Touch with the Part of You That Has Never Been Hurt
Lecture 2: Compassion, Contradiction, and Healing
Lecture 3: Invoking Multiple Dimensions of Compassion
Lecture 4: A Compassion Focused Visualization
Lecture 5: Compassion for Voices
Chapter 10: Supporting Some Other Key Dimensions of Healing
Lecture 1: The Rediscovery of Meaning, Purpose, and a Natural Order
Lecture 2: Developing Discernment
Lecture 3: Appreciating the Dialectical, Avoiding Domination
Chapter 11: Imagining a Mental Health System that Took Spiritual Issues Seriously
Lecture 1: Insights Drawn from Experiments with Madness Sanctuaries
Lecture 2: Other Ways To Support Healing and Integration
Chapter 12: Relating Parts to the Whole
Lecture 1: Preliminary: If You Are Unfamiliar With the Internal Family Systems Approach
Lecture 2: Bringing Parts Into Harmony: Internal Family Systems
Lecture 3: Conducting the Orchestra: An Unsettled Approach
Chapter 13: Wrapping Things Up, Learning More
Lecture 1: Personal Work, Summary
Lecture 2: Resources for Learning More About This Topic
Lecture 3: To Download the PowerPoint Slides
Instructors
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Ron Unger
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
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