HumorMatterstm

Workshops and Presentations
with
Steven M. Sultanoff, Ph.D.

Ongoing Live and Online Programs and Workshops

Dr. Sultanoff offers personalized programs for your organization.  These include continuing education programs for mental health professionals as well as trainings for organizations such as corporations and government agencies. Dr. Sultanoff is a continuing education provider certified by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences and can offer CEU credits for MFTs and LCSWs. 

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Workshop Locations

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Workshop Schedule
January-May, 2008

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Clinical Supervision-Fundamentals

This introductory program will provide clinicians with a solid "how-to" foundation for supervising MFT interns and trainees, psychological assistants and interns, social work associates, and other mental health supervisees. 
Participants should be familiar with the supervision rules and regulations of their respective licensing board(s) prior to completing this course.

This course satisfies the Board of Behavioral Sciences requirement for supervision training for all BBS-licensed supervisors of MFT interns. This course must be completed within 60 days of commencing supervision.

Topics

Defining Supervision
Models of Supervision
Supervision Laws &
Regulations
The Supervision Hour
Group Supervision
The Nuts & Bolts of Supervision
Tips & Traps
Special Topics in Supervision
Hiring the Best Interns

Goals:

Distinguish the differences between providing clinical supervision, clinical consultation, mentoring, and training to students and interns.

Understand the pros and cons of various models and forms of supervision.

Apply the supervision laws and regulations relevant to your supervisees.

Steven M. Sultanoff, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist (#PSY 8687) and licensed MFT (#MFT 16081). He works as a therapist, supervisor, professor, consultant, and trainer. For 20 years he has served as a clinical supervisor in various agencies and universities, including 11 years as the clinical director in a psychology-training center. His passion for teaching and multi-media presentations earned him Psycho-Legal Associates’ "Instructor of the Year" award in 1999. 

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Clinical Supervision: Beyond the Basics

This continuation of the first Clinical Supervision program will update the rules and regulations, review a variety of theoretical approaches to supervision, examine intern selection and evaluation, explore group supervision, and address a variety of potential legal, ethical and clinical issues as surfaced by the supervision process and responsibilities.

Participants are expected to be familiar with the supervision rules and regulations of their respective licensing board(s). 

This course satisfies the Board of Behavioral Sciences and the Board of Psychology requirements for supervision training.

Topics

Update of Rules and Regulations
Theoretical Approaches to Supervision
Stages of Supervision from the first session to termination
Group Supervision
Tips & Traps
Special Topics in Supervision
Selecting Competent Interns
Evaluation

Goals:

Understand the rules and regulations and how to avoid violations
Understand theoretical approaches to supervision
Creating sensible and acceptable risk management
Addressing and dealing with problems with supervisees

Steven M. Sultanoff, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist (#PSY 8687) and licensed MFT (#MFT 16081). He works as a therapist, supervisor, professor, consultant, and trainer. For 20 years he has served as a clinical supervisor in various agencies and universities, including 11 years as the clinical director in a psychology-training center. His passion for teaching and multi-media presentations earned him Psycho-Legal Associates’ "Instructor of the Year" award in 1999. 

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Clinical Supervision: Special Topics

In this special topics program, greater emphasis will be placed on the supervisor and on the supervisory relationship as a vehicle for supervisee growth and development.  Supervisors will explore their own personal experience of supervision as well as the interactive-experiential nature of the supervision process. Additional topics will include risk management, making practical sense of the regulations, group supervision, and other special topics.  In addition to the didactic presentation, experiential activities will enhance the program offering participants opportunities to more thoroughly examine the supervision process.

Participants are expected to be familiar with the supervision rules and regulations of their respective licensing board(s). 

This course satisfies the Board of Behavioral Sciences and the Board of Psychology requirements for supervision training.

Topics

Supervision as an interactive relationship
Exploring oneself as supervisor
Uncovering the gems of Supervision
Risk management
Interpreting the rules and regulations
Group supervision
Experientially based supervisee selection, assessment, and training (live demonstration)
Parallel Process

Goals:

Utilize the relationship as a vehicle for supervisee growth
Understand one’s own sense of being as a supervisor
Recognize levels of risk
Apply the regulations to supervisory practice
 Differentiate roles and responsibilities of supervisors
 Improve supervisee selection, assessment, and training

Steven M. Sultanoff, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist (#PSY 8687) and licensed MFT (#MFT 16081). He works as a therapist, supervisor, professor, consultant, and trainer. For 20 years he has served as a clinical supervisor in various agencies and universities, including 11 years as the clinical director in a psychology-training center. His passion for teaching and multi-media presentations earned him Psycho-Legal Associates’ "Instructor of the Year" award in 1999. 

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Clinical Supervision: Best Practices

This new intermediate program will focus on ways to enhance our traditional modes of supervision. Major topics will include unconscious bias (i.e., blind spots) of supervisors and supervisees, layers of supervisee development, administrative responsibilities, and living with regulation constraints and risk management. We will also address the importance of experiential activities for supervisees as a complement to traditional didactic interventions. In addition to the lecture presentation, the workshop will include video examples and practice vignettes.

This course satisfies the Board of Behavioral Sciences and the Board of Psychology requirements for supervision training.

Topics

• “Blink” Moments (Unconscious Learned Reactions)
• Unconscious Competence Versus Intuition
• Supervisee Self Report Vs. Actual Behavior
• Vacations, Absences, And Other Missed Supervision
• Multitasking Skills And Layers Of Skill Competence
• Retroactive Inhibition (Unlearning Earlier Ineffective Behaviors)
• Addressing Differences (Cultural, Gender, Age, Religious, Social Economic)
• Record Keeping—Requirements And Best Practices
• Supervision By Theory or Experiential Supervision 

Goals:

At the conclusion of this program you should be better able to:

• Differentiate basic supervision from “best practices.”
• Uncover unconscious learned reactions of supervisees.
• Clarify administrative responsibilities of supervisors.

Steven M. Sultanoff, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist (#PSY 8687) and licensed MFT (#MFT 16081). He works as a therapist, supervisor, professor, consultant, and trainer. For 20 years he has served as a clinical supervisor in various agencies and universities, including 11 years as the clinical director in a psychology-training center. His passion for teaching and multi-media presentations earned him Psycho-Legal Associates’ "Instructor of the Year" award in 1999. 

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Clinical Supervision V:
Challenges, Strategies, and Solutions

This new intermediate course for 2008 is designed to expand and enhance your supervision training by dedicating time to exploring and analyzing supervision videos and real vignettes that illustrate many supervision challenges. In small groups you will explore possible strategies and solutions that address the challenges presented in the videos and vignettes

This course satisfies the Board of Behavioral Sciences and the 
Board of Psychology requirements for supervision training.

Topics

•  Uncovering core qualities of effective supervisees
• The art and technique of supervision
• Challenges, strategies and solutions dealing with a difficult supervisee
• Supervision generations and gems
• Rules and regulations update with reasonable applications of the regulations
• Case evaluation perspectives
• Using humor in supervision
• Record Keeping—Requirements And Best Practices 

Goals:

At the conclusion of this program you should be better able to:

• Understand the multiple aspects of the supervisory relationship.
• Differentiate art and technique as applied to supervision and therapy.
• Learn to apply multiple evaluation perspectives (clinical, legal, ethical, professional) to supervision 
• Uncover significant qualities of supervision that supervisors might pass on to supervisees.
• Explore recommended and required documentation related to the supervision process.
• Understand and apply California rules and regulations for supervision of therapists in training.

Steven M. Sultanoff, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist (#PSY 8687) and licensed MFT (#MFT 16081). He works as a therapist, supervisor, professor, consultant, and trainer. For 20 years he has served as a clinical supervisor in various agencies and universities, including 11 years as the clinical director in a psychology-training center. His passion for teaching and multi-media presentations earned him Psycho-Legal Associates’ "Instructor of the Year" award in 1999. 

 

 

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Humor & Healing

Revitalizing Psychotherapy 
with Humor

Humor can be a powerful tool to facilitate emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and physiological well being. This lively introductory workshop will demonstrate how and why humor can be therapeutic, and ways to integrate humorous interventions into clinical practice. The therapeutic nature of humor will be illustrated through jokes, anecdotes, props, cartoons, and video presentations.

Topics

Humor and Psychotherapy Perspectives 
Models of Humor and Psychotherapy 
Positive Psychology and the Role of Humor
Humor Concepts
Basic and Advanced Humor Interventions
The Healthful and Harmful Impact of Humor Interventions

Goals

Understand the rationale for integrating humor into the therapeutic relationship. 
Distinguish between healing and harmful humor interventions.
Utilize humor processes as part of psychotherapy.

Steven M. Sultanoff, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist (#PSY 8687), licensed MFT (#MFT 16081), and Past President of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor. He maintains a private practice and works as a therapist, supervisor, professor, consultant, and trainer. He has appeared on Lifetime Television to discuss humor in the workplace. His passion for teaching and multi-media presentations earned him Psycho-Legal Associates’ "Instructor of the Year" award in 1999.

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Emotional Intelligence

While intellectual intelligence has been historically valued above other forms of human aptitude, emotional intelligence (EI) is becoming increasingly recognized as a significant form of human ability.  Emotional intelligence involves the capacity to sense one’s own emotional state, as well as the emotional state of others, and then be able to choose a course of action (or inaction) based on the emotional data. In this workshop participants will learn the fundamentals of EI and how to increase EI in oneself and others. This introductory program will provide a solid understanding of the core elements of emotional intelligence.

While this program is filled with information, attendees will be encouraged to take an active role in activities and discussions about material presented.  The presentation includes group activities and videos that encourage participant interaction with each other and the presenter.

Topics

Defining Moments in Emotional Intelligence (EI)
Skills of EI
Self-Control; Zeal and Persistence; Ability to Self Motivate; and Empathy
Active versus objectified emotional process
The meaning of emotional expression
The language of empowerment and depowerment
Research in EI
Physiology of Emotions
Neural Hijacking
Developing and Nurturing EI
Activating Emotions for Behavior Change

Goals:

Participants will gain understanding of the fundamentals of emotional intelligence

Participants will learn the central qualities and skills of emotional intelligence 

Participants will learn to differentiate between the language of Empowerment and Depowerment as presented by themselves and others.

 Participations will learn skills to increase emotional intelligence

Steven M. Sultanoff, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and licensed MFT. He has been presenting programs to a wide range of audiences for over 30 years and has worked in the field of emotional intelligence for over 25 years. (He was offering emotional intelligence training even before the term was coined.) His programs are filled with humor in the form of jokes, stories, cartoons, props, videos, etc. 

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Fundamentals of Cognitive Therapy

Cognitive therapy is one of the most popular, effective, and misunderstood therapies of modern time.  While the term "cognitive" leads one to believe that the therapy is about thoughts it, in actuality, focuses on the relationship between thoughts and feelings.  As such, feelings play a major role in the therapeutic process. In this introductory program participants will learn both theory and process of cognitive therapy.  Layers of thought process as well as feelings associated with specific belief patterns will be presented.  In addition participants will learn a variety of intervention strategies to enhance effectiveness of the therapy.

Topics

Layers of cognitive process
Scaling emotions
Thought records
Reality and fantasy testing
Identifying beliefs associated with specific emotional patterns
Treatment of: Depression, Anxiety, Panic

Goals

Understand fundamental principles of cognitive therapy
Distinguish types of cognition
Apply thought records to clinical practice
Challenge thoughts and beliefs

Positive Psychology

Positive psychology has been defined as: "A science of positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions [that] promises to improve quality of life and prevent the pathologies that arise when life is barren and meaningless.” Positive psychology focuses on emotional health rather than emotional illness or distress. With the research on psychoneuroimmunology as a base, this introductory program will teach participants the principles of positive psychology and how to integrate those principles into one's life.

Topics

Definition of Positive Psychology
Psychology of Wellness versus the Psychology of Distress
Elements Positive Psychology
Research on Psychoneuroimmunology

Goals

To apply positive psychology principles to everyday life encounters
To understand the research basis for positive psychology
To distinguish positive psychology from the humanists psychology

               

Empathy Training: 
A Day of Experiential Learning

While empathy training has been present for many years, with the popularity of emotional intelligence it is gaining new interest. In this experiential program participants will learn the many levels of empathic experience and the skills that facilitate communication of empathy to others. Participants will work in small training groups and receive feedback from their peer and the presenter.

Topics

True Empathy versus the Skill of Communicating Empathy
Small Group Practice Sessions
Experiential Training Models for Supervision
External versus Personalized Empathy
Active and Objectified Reflection of feeling
Levels of Empathy: Interchangeable, Leading, Additive, Interpretive
Research on Empathy and other Responding Skills
Research on Psychotherapy for Better or Worse

Goals

Participants will:

Differentiate the skills of empathy from the experience of empathy
Understand the levels of empathic expression
Understand levels of emotional experience
Learn the importance of matching empathy to the receiver of empathy

               

Funny Stuff	Topical Humor	Information	Resources	Training, Psychological Services, and More
Joke of the Week	Seasonal and Holiday Humor	Articles on Humor Humor and Crisis	Are You Looking for a Professional Speaker on Therapeutic Humor?	Clinical Supervision  Continuing Education Online Courses  Audio presentation with  PowerPoint Slides and  Video Demonstrations
Notable Quotables	Humor Related to Aging	FAQ's   Press Room	Steven M. Sultanoff, Ph.D. Clinical Mirthologist	Continuing Education Programs for Health Professionals
Bumper Stickers	Out of the Mouths of Babes (The Humor of Children)	Popular Definitions of Humor Universal traits of humor	Humor Bibliographies	Therapeutic Humor Program for Health Professionals
Jokes, etc.	"Signs" of the Times	Examining the Research in the  Therapeutic Benefits of Humor and Laughter	Humorous Products	Psychotherapy Programs and Information Psychological Services
Kid's Riddles	Words to the Wise (Humor related to language)	Maintaining High-Touch Humor  In a High-Tech Society  (article)	Kindred Jesters (Links)	Supervision Rules, Regulations, and Interpretations for California Psychotherapists
Joke of the Week Previous Years	Y2K Humor		Other Useful Websites	Workshops and Conferences 2007 and 2008
Groaners	Darwin Awards 2000 Nominations Now Open		Breaking News	Emotional Intelligence Matters™
Newspaper Humor			Humor Resources on the Web (Links)	The healing writings of Barry A. Sultanoff, MD
Workplace Humor		SCAM ALERT: Barnes and Noble online refuses to honor Gift Cards	Home Page

 

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