Gaslighting: Ayudar a los clientes a escapar y reconstruirse del abuso emocional de un narcisista

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La Dra. Stephanie Sarkis es una renombrada terapeuta y destacada experta en gaslighting y TDAH. Con más de dos décadas de experiencia como clínica, autora y conferenciante, la Dra. Sarkis se ha convertido en una voz de confianza en la lucha contra el gaslighting y otras formas relacionadas de manipulación psicológica. Su innovador libro, Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative and Emotionally Abusive People - and Break Free, se ha convertido en una lectura obligada para cualquiera que busque comprender el devastador impacto del gaslighting y cómo curarse de sus efectos. La Dra. Sarkis es colaboradora habitual de los principales medios de comunicación, como CNN, The Washington Post y Forbes. La Dra. Sarkis es asesora de salud mental licenciada, asesora certificada a nivel nacional, diplomada por la AMHCA y especialista clínica en asesoramiento de niños y adolescentes, y mediadora familiar y de circuito certificada por el Tribunal Supremo de Florida. Su último libro Healing from Toxic Relationships (Sanar las relaciones tóxicas ) ya está disponible. Visite su página web en www.stephaniesarkis.com

Divulgaciones del orador:
Financieras: La Dra. Stephanie Moulton Sarkis mantiene una consulta privada. Colabora con Forbes, The Huffington Post y Psychology Today y es miembro del panel asesor de Evergreen Certifications. La Dra. Sarkis es facilitadora de Divorcio Colaborativo. Recibe regalías como autora publicada. Recibe honorarios por conferencias, grabaciones y regalías por libros de PESI, Inc. No tiene relaciones financieras relevantes con organizaciones no elegibles.
No financieras: La Dra. Stephanie Moulton Sarkis es experta profesional de Understood.org, que forma parte del Centro Nacional de Problemas de Aprendizaje. Es miembro de la Asociación de Trastornos por Déficit de Atención, de la Asociación Americana de Consejeros de Salud Mental, de Niños y Adultos con Trastornos por Déficit de Atención y de la Junta Nacional de Consejeros Certificados.

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Objetivos

1. Utilize solution focused, cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to address victims of emotional abuse.
2. Differentiate between abusive behaviors defined as “gaslighting”, poor communication, and other forms of emotional abuse.
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of evidence based practices to address emotional abuse.
4. Determine whether a client is experiencing complicated grief as a result of leaving their abuser using techniques from attachment and complicated grief therapy.
5. Utilize clinical strategies from a trauma-informed perspective to identify vulnerabilities and trauma that abusers prey upon.
6. Educate clients to identify potential abusive behavior in future relationships.

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A More Dangerous Form of Emotional Abuse

• Potential for domestic homicide is higher
• Lifetime attachment issues for children witnessing the abuse
• Parental alienation
• Chronic loss of self-esteem; higher suicide rates
• Unpacking profile of perpetrator

Warning Signs and Assessment:

• Vicious cycle of the trauma bond
• Manipulating through fear, obligation & guilt
• Reverse victim and offender
• Healthy boundaries met with punishing behavior
• Punishing with stonewalling
• Intermittent positive reinforcement (breadcrumbing)
• Jekyll and Hyde personality

Evidence-Based Practices to Help Gaslighting Victim

• CBT
  • Advanced cognitive restructuring for common distortions held by gaslighting victims
  • Activity scheduling to help victims of gaslighting reconnect with routines and stability
• ACT
  • Confront uncomfortable feelings
  • Values clarification exercises to help clients find direction and motivation
  • Mindfulness exercises to help clients become aware of physical and emotional manifestations decrease dissociation
• Bowen Family Systems Theory
  • Identify intergenerational trauma and patterns
  • Create genograms of a client’s family to reveal patterns of behavior and relationships
• Solution-Focused
  • Uncover existing boundaries and strengths
  • “Magic question” to establish goals and create hope for your client
  • 1 to 10 scale to track progress and note exceptions
• DBT
  • Distress tolerance skills
  • Encourage journaling to process emotions and review progress
  • Engage in role-play to practice coping skills and assert boundaries in potentially stressful situations
• Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy
  • Focus on client’s “felt experience” by paying attention to what the body is feeling
  • Help clients put words and descriptions to their physical experiences
• Trauma- Informed Guiding Principles
  • Safety, choice, collaboration, and empowerment
  • Provide clients with a clear consent form detailing your processes and their rights in therapy
  • Techniques to enhance the collaborative focus of trauma-informed therapy

THE ONES WHO REALLY GET UNDER YOUR SKIN

• Healing from Family-of-Origin and Complicated Grief
  • Gaslighting parent – “golden child” & “scapegoat”
  • Insecure attachment - narcissist
  • Permission to detach, reduce, or cease communication
  • Sticking to healthy boundaries
  • Reverse relationship patterns
  • Case study: Cassie, 60-year-old female, familyof-origin engages in gaslighting
• Healing from Narcissistic Partners
  • Rediscover and reestablish healthy boundaries
  • Protect children and pets
  • Establish financial security
  • Define what makes a healthy relationship
  • Cope with going no-contact or low-contact
  • Common issues when coparenting with a gaslighter and solutions

Help Clients Rebuild Their Lives

• Strategies for co-parenting with gaslighter
• Legal protections for clients/ children
• Formation of healthy boundaries
• Case study: Jamie, 45-years-old, co-parenting with a narcissist
• Case study: 35-years-old, co-parenting with gaslighting ex-partner

Potential Pitfalls for Therapists

• Triangulation of therapist
• Being swayed by gaslighter’s charisma
• Frustration over client returning to relationship
• Pushing own agenda of client independence
• Vicarious traumatization
• Vicarious trauma or trauma from actions of gaslighter/narcissist
• Burnout
• Risks and limitations

Público objetivo

• Consejeros
• Trabajadores sociales
• Psicólogos
• Arteterapeutas
• Terapeutas matrimoniales y familiares
• Médicos
• Consejeros en adicciones
• Mental health professionals who specialize in women’s issues, work in domestic violence shelters, work with LGBTQIA+ clients
• Therapists that work in private practice, group settings, inpatient, and at schools

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