Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma
Self-Paced Lecure Series with Case Illustrations with Dr. Ken Benau
Improve your theraputetic outcomes by expanding your perspective and understanding of chronic states of the mind & body, and learn how psychotherapeutic transformation of shame states can lead to adaptive, pro-being pride.
$195 | 5 CEs Available
Add to My LibraryWorking With Relational Trauma
Chronic shame lies at the heart of most psychological suffering, particularly in survivors of relational trauma (RT) - abuse, neglect, absence, and pervasive attachment wounds. While most trauma therapists intuitively know this to be true, they often haven't learned how best to understand traumatic shame nor how to transform these painfully intransigent mind/body states. Pride is hardly discussed at all in the literature, particularly with regard to its beneficial role in psychotherapy with RT survivors.
Using verbatim, psychotherapy session transcripts, this course shows therapists how to help RT survivors "go beyond" alleviating shame states and enhancing adaptive pride to more fully embody their aliveness, what Dr. Benau terms "pro-being pride", in which their unique ways of being and relating are celebrated within, with others, and in the world.
Why This Course?
Improve Therapeutic Knowledge:Â Â Better understand the complex nature of chronic shame and its impacts survivors of RT, and how it manifests within therapist-client relationships.
More Than Just Lecture:Â Explore the literature and research on shame, pride, and RT with provided readings and learn from Dr. Benau's extensive clinical experience with multiple case illustrations presented during the course.
Help Your Complex Cases:Â Review clinical vignettes, including verbatim transcripts from several psychotherapy sessions, that demonstrate movement from shame states, to authentic pride, pro-being pride, and beyond to states of unity consciousness.
Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma with Dr. Ken Benau
Self-Paced Lecture Series
Over five hours, explore a richer approach for psychotherapists and allied health care professionals who work with shame and pride in survivors of relational trauma (RT) that integrates existing approaches and modalities with a more robust understanding of client presentation, need, and clinical presence.
$195 | 5 CEs Available
This Course Is Eligible for 5 Continuing Education (CE) Credit Hours Upon Completion
Upon completion of the provided assessments, participants will demonstrate their ability to:
Differentiate shame and pride as acute emotions versus chronic, traumatic, mind/body states (“shame and pride states”).
Identify both adaptive and maladaptive forms of shame and pride, and their relevance in psychotherapy with relational trauma (RT).
Describe the phenomena of “pro-being pride” as used in Dr. Benau’s work and explain how it related to RT.
Session Topics
This self-paced series is provided over five lectures that can be viewed from the My Library section of EEG Learn, with associated slides, handouts, and references.
Session 1:Â Shame and Pride
Session 2:Â Psychodynamics and Transformation
Session 3: Patient-Therapist Shame State Dynamics
Session 4: Neuroscience of Shame States
Session 5:Â Psychotherapeutic TransformationÂ
This course is appropriate for psychologists and allied mental health & healthcare professionals who work therapeutically with survivors of relational trauma. While reference is given to specific modalities and approaches, no experience with these approaches are required and context is provided by Dr. Benau.
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Meet Dr. Ken Benau
Dr. Benau has been a licensed clinical psychologist in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1990. He has considerable experience working with children, adolescents and adults, with a special interest and expertise working in individual, couple and family therapy with people living with learning and developmental differences, including LD, ADHD and Autism. Dr. Benau works from an integrative perspective. His primary theoretical “homes” include psychodynamic, experiential, and somatic psychotherapy, with attachment and emotion-focused approaches prominent.