 |
Center for Journal Therapy
Grant Street Mansion
1115 Grant St. #207
Denver, CO 80203
Voice: 888-421-2298
Denver metro: 303-986-6460
Fax: 303-985-3903
Contact Us >>
|
The Clinical Journal Therapy
Home Study Series
Together, a comprehensive 44-hour program in clinical journal therapy available in the convenience of your home, office or car! The Center for Journal Therapy is approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors as Provider #5782 of continuing education. All programs are stand-alone and may be taken in any order, or in any combination. Note that this continuing education series is appropriate only for mental health professionals.
You'll learn dozens of proven, time-tested techniques to help clients get started with journalkeeping as a route to self-awareness, insight, enhanced self-concept and lasting change.
In this audio workshop, you'll learn and practice pragmatic, hands-on ways to teach the toolbox of journal techniques to counseling clients in 1:1 or group settings.
A specialized program in journal therapy that shows how men can achieve personal growth, creative expression, career enhancement and community with others through the simple yet powerfully effective practice of journal writing.
A self-paced, well-structured individualized learning plan that teaches a developmentally sound way of approaching journal writing for clients with histories of traumatic stress.
Some of the most innovative and critical thinking in journal therapy available today for clinicians who want to deepen their understanding of journal writing to include "the story behind the story."
CHS 1: Tools and Techniques
Journal to the Self, one of the five best-selling books on journalkeeping of all time, and The Journal Tape offer psychotherapists everywhere a window into the extraordinary transformative powers of journal writing. You will learn:
- Dozens of journal interventions designed to achieve specific results
- How to help your clients get started with the basics of journalkeeping as a route to self-awareness, insight, enhanced self-concept and lasting change
- How to trouble-shoot concerns and overcome objections
- How to structure journal interventions for common therapeutic issues.
The program, which has been approved for eight (8) continuing education hours by the National Board for Certified Counselors, consists of:
- Journal to the Self (Warner Books), the pioneering book that started a movement in clinical journal therapy
- The Journal Tape, a studio tape containing focused interventions, entrance meditations and diary excerpts
- Clinical Journal Therapy: An Overview.
A comprehensive paper that defines the field of journal therapy and its many applications for mental health and psychological wellness. It includes a 4-page spreadsheet on how to apply the 18 most useful journal therapy interventions. This focused information will assist you in customizing this material for your own specific client applications.
"A great resource.... Content is clear, concise and well-organized. Kay Adams is a gifted teacher."
CHS 2: Experiential Journal Workshop
The complete Journal to the Self audio workshop that has been taught to thousands of clients and therapists across North America since 1985. The workshop offers proven, tested methods for teaching the toolbox of journal techniques to counseling clients in 1:1 or group settings. You'll learn:
- Practical, hands-on ways to offer instruction on specific journal techniques
- How to handle potentially difficult situations
- How to encourage participants to share while still respecting privacy rights
- How to contain process material when time is a factor
- Which techniques are most useful for which presenting problems and life explorations
The program, which has been approved for eleven (11) continuing education hours by the National Board for Certified Counselors, consists of:
- Audio workshop complete on 5 double-sided tapes
- Clinical Journal Therapy: An Overview.
A comprehensive paper that defines the field of journal therapy and its many applications for mental health and psychological wellness. It includes a 4-page spreadsheet on how to apply the 18 most useful journal therapy interventions. This focused information will assist you in customizing this material for your own specific client applications.
"I found this method of learning time-effective and very interesting."
"I have done journals for years and discovered many new tools for myself and my clients."
CHS 3: Men's Issues
A specialized program in journal therapy that shows how men can achieve personal growth, creative expression, career enhancement and community with others through the simple yet powerfully effective practice of journal writing. With the help of men's actual diary entries and specific exercises designed to achieve results, you will learn how to offer your male clients journal interventions and techniques designed to help them find self-awareness through self- expression, build inner bridges to authenticity, connect with and express feelings, and much more. The program, which has been approved for ten (10) continuing education hours by the National Board for Certified Counselors, consists of:
- Mightier Than the Sword. The full text of a two- year research study with men and journals, originally published by Warner Books. Through over 150 actual journal excerpts, you'll be given a glimpse into the inner realms of men on topics such as identity, authenticity, fatherhood, values, feelings, spirituality, wounds, and dreams.
- An actual men's journal workshop captured intimately on audiotape.
- Clinical Journal Therapy: An Overview.
A comprehensive paper that defines the field of journal therapy and its many applications for mental health and psychological wellness. It includes a 4-page spreadsheet on how to apply the 18 most useful journal therapy interventions. This focused information will assist you in customizing this material for your own specific client applications.
"Clear, structured, well-organized and inspired presentation of information, ideas and ways of working with the journal. Loaded with great exercises!"
CHS 4: Tools for Trauma Survivors
A self-paced, well-structured individualized learning plan that teaches a developmentally sound way of approaching journal writing for clients who have had difficulty starting or staying with a journal program. Developed while working with trauma survivors at a national treatment center, these techniques can be used with anyone in pain who wishes to gain greater self-understanding. You will learn:
- 10 fundamental journal skills for trauma survivors
- The vital tools of structure, pacing, containment
- Why the "journal ladder" is crucial in helping trauma clients develop confidence, trust and safety in the process of therapeutic writing
- Step-by-step exercises for working with feelings, dreams and guided imagery
- Journal therapy interventions for 25 common clinical situations
The program, which has been approved for nine (9) continuing education hours by the National Board for Certified Counselors, consists of:
- The Way of the Journal, 2nd Ed (Sidran Press), a workbook written as the outcome of a two-year research study in journal therapy with psychiatrically hospitalized trauma survivors
- Journals Quick and Easy, a lecture that amplifies the theories and concepts in the workbook
- Clinical Journal Therapy: An Overview.
A comprehensive paper that defines the field of journal therapy and its many applications for mental health and psychological wellness. It includes a 4-page spreadsheet on how to apply the 18 most useful journal therapy interventions. This focused information will assist you in customizing this material for your own specific client applications.
"What a gift to the counseling profession."
CHS 5: Lectures in Journal Therapy
These four lecture tapes, recorded live at various conferences around the country, represent some of the most innovative and critical thinking in journal therapy available today for clinicians who want to deepen their understanding of journal writing to include "the story behind the story." You will learn:
- Ten reasons why journal writing is a powerful adjunct to therapy
- Cutting-edge thoughts on how journal writing acts as a healing agent
- A six-pronged approach for helping clients write the "new story" of their lives
- Research findings on the correlation between writing and healing
The program, which has been approved for six (6) continuing education hours by the National Board for Certified Counselors, consists of:
- Four audiotapes: The 79-Cent Therapist: The Journal as Psychological Toolbox; The Blessed Unrest; Healing the Wounded Writer (The New Story of Your Life); and The Write Way to Healing
- Clinical Journal Therapy: An Overview.
A comprehensive paper that defines the field of journal therapy and its many applications for mental health and psychological wellness. It includes a 4-page spreadsheet on how to apply the 18 most useful journal therapy interventions. This focused information will assist you in customizing this material for your own specific client applications.
"I enjoyed listening to these tapes. It was an excellent continuing education program for me."
Program Logistics
Please provide licensure or advanced degree in counseling, social work, clinical psychology, or a related field on your order form. Orders will be shipped by priority mail within 10 business days of receipt, unless otherwise notified. Overnight delivery and priority processing are available for additional fees. You may order online with MasterCard or Visa, using our secure server. Participants will document learning by submitting a brief response paper addressing how the learning will be used in professional practice. A certificate for continuing education is mailed within 10 business days of receipt of the response paper and other course documentation.
back to top
back to bookstore
back to professional training |
