Understanding and Treating Codependency
When Clients Over-function for Others
- Speaker:
- Nancy Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP
- Duration:
- 3 Hours
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
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Mar 23, 2025
- Product Code:
- NOS096527
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
We frequently see clients who lose themselves in others. Often, their sense of self seems to depend on people, situations, and outcomes they’re unable to realistically control. They’re overly focused on helping, solving, rescuing, saving, and mitigating others’ pain. When this pattern of other-centeredness interferes with a client’s goals, or fuels anxiety and depressive symptoms, what’s a clinician to do? In this workshop, you’ll be introduced to the clinical importance of sensitively helping clients become aware of their tendency toward other centeredness at the expense of the self. By connecting with the self and responding to it, clients can get better at toggling between self and others to create more balance in their lives and ultimately foster a healthier relationship with themselves. You’ll learn to:
- Help clients recognize codependent patterns in non-pathologizing ways
- Support clients in developing an internal focus
- Foster experiences of self in therapy
- Empower clients to spot codependent patterns fueling anxiety and depression
Credit
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Objectives
- Explain 3 ways to clinically understand codependency that can be applied to treating codependency.
- Integrate 3 assessment tools for codependency into an intake interview.
- Describe the clinician’s role in establishing a therapeutic relationship with a person with codependency.
- Apply protocols to help clients foster their internal connections.
Outline
Understanding codependency
- Core features of codependency
- “Relationship Circles”
- Specific behaviors associated with codependency
- “Behaviors Associated with Codependency Continuum
- Clinical goals
Assessing a client for codependency
- “Assessing for a Dominant External Focus”
- “Assessing for Behaviors Associated with Codependency”
- “Assessing for Overfunctioning for Others/Underfunctioning for Self”
- Connecting codependent dynamics with client’s presenting issues
Establishing a therapeutic relationship with a client with codependency
- Therapist characteristics
- Client empowerment
- Countertransference
- Clinician Codependency
Treating Codependency
- Educating the client about external vs. internal focus
- Helping clients foster their relationship-with-self
- Four interlocking elements of self-recovery
- Practices to help clients increase their internal connections
Risks and Limitations
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
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