Introducing
Resilient Self Therapy
Path to Meaning in Life
TherapeuticTheory
Kelly's Personal Construct Theory Coordinates
A collaborative alliance with high engagement
Individualised: Elaborates vs challenges: Positive focus
The experiential gestalt of Interventions:
Cognition: Feelings: Behaviour: the Body
Identity expansion and spontaneously resolving symptoms
Assessment Techniques
Identification Criteria for Lack of Meaning/ Purpose
Identifying and Deferring Trauma impacts
Self Characterisation Shows:
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Can it be done at all?
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Complexity of self constructs.
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Self vs Other dominance
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Positive or negative self-concept
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Restraining constructs
Laddering:
Identifies most powerful constructs
Their connections with other presentation etc
Mapping Core Constructs of Repeated Word Use:
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Often encapsulates the presenting problem
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Creates early therapeutic alliance and hope
Genogram, School, Employment History
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Identifies sources of problem constructs and identify Strengths
Construct Mapping
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Mutual understanding of Gestalt of a presenting problem: Thoughts, emotions expectations and behaviours
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Suggests various intervention strategies
Self Elaboration
Resilient Self Articulation
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Elaborating enjoyed processes
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Identifying pre-conscious strengths and values
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Identifying dependable strengths
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Value-constructive World-view
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Consolidating Neural Wiring
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Personal-value clarification
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Self vs peer comparison
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Self vs family comparison
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Dependable strengths valuation
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Adlerian Value through contribution
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Individuality = Unique gestalt of strengths
Elaborating Restraints
Value-destructive Conceptualisations
Worth = Achievement, Approval. Being extraordinary
Powerlessness, Uncontrollability, Unachievability
Self orientation=Selfishness. Perfectionism
Through:
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Creating and testing Construct maps
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Pyramiding Constellatory core constructs
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Elaborating submerged construct poles
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Observational records
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Belief cost-Benefit analyses
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Reframing Construct labels
Restructuring Trauma
Educating about Trauma
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Effects on Identity
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Amygdala interpretations: fast, powerful but not smart
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Emotional Dysregulation: Suppressed vs overwhelming
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Unintegrated parts of experience
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Trauma constructs dominate experience
Elaborating trauma related constructs and negative conceptualisations of emotional parts
Assessing readiness and safest strategy for restructuring
Integrating Dissociated self parts via
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Naming and distinguish Emotions
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Kellian 3-way self-part comparisons,
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Identifying, describing, drawing , physical symbols for shared interests between identity parts,
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Observing, depicting, comparing personality parts (Assagioly, Drawing from the right brain).
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Ideomotor finger signalling (Nijenhuis)
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Reconstruing survival roles for hated/feared parts
Hypnotic & imaginal techniques:
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Safe place Castle, magic Screen,
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Stop not Block magic
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Somatic mindfulness
EMDR:
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Setup
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Dissociative reactions,
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Elaborating Constructs blocking reprocessing,
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Resilient self focused Cognitive interweave
Somatic work to:
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Express or redirect anger,
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Somatic Mindfulness to manage and desensitise flash back powered emotion and body memory
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Counter shame, Valuelessness, Powerlessness,
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Install positive self-constructs
Assessment
Identifying Meaninglessness
identifying purposelessness
Assessing
Current Identity
Core Construct Mapping
Barriers to Self-efficacy
Excluded aspects of self
Dependable strengths articulation
Identify strengths and values from enjoyed processes
Identify Dependable strengths
Consolidatie neural wiring
Personal Value Articulation
Value-Constructive world-view
Dissolving barriers to Value-efficacy
Elaborate problem constructs
Consolidate Elaborations
Integrate and restructure trauma with focus on repairing damage to identity
Integrate excluded experience