Commitment to Change – Habits That Block Change (4 hours)

Categories: Cognitive-Behavioral
Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify the specific tactics that individuals with criminal and addictive behaviors use to resist change, including victim thinking, attacking, and diversion.
• Describe the concept of casing people out and explain how offenders use this tactic to manipulate therapeutic interactions.
• Apply cognitive therapy techniques to help clients recognize automatic thoughts and core beliefs that underlie destructive behavior patterns.
• Analyze the difference between genuine compliance and tactical compliance in clients participating in treatment programs.
• Demonstrate strategies for confronting generalization as a tactic used by clients to deflect accountability for their behavior.
• Explain the role of thinking in shaping emotional responses and behavioral outcomes using the Yochelson-Samenow framework.
• Develop group facilitation approaches for identifying and addressing habits that block change in substance abuse and criminal justice populations.

Stanton Samenow

Stanton Samenow

Ph.D

Dr. Stanton Samenow received his B.A. (cum laude) from Yale University in 1963 and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1968. Thereafter, he joined the Program for the Investigation of Criminal Behavior at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., and became clinical research psychologist for the program.

With the late Dr. Samuel Yochelson, he participated in the longest in-depth clinical research-treatment study of offenders that has been conducted in North America. In 1978, Dr. Samenow entered the private practice of clinical psychology in Alexandria, Virginia. His specialty has continued to be the evaluation and treatment of juvenile and adult offenders. Dr. Samenow has delivered lectures, training seminars, and workshops in 48 states, Canada, and England, to a variety of professional groups including mental health, law enforcement, corrections, education, social services, and the judiciary.

He has served as a consultant and expert witness for a variety of courts and agencies, including the FBI, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the U.S. Office of Probation. In 1980, he was appointed by President Reagan to the Law Enforcement Task Force and in1982 to the President’s Task Force on Victims of Crime. In 1987, President Reagan appointed him as a Conferee to the White House Conference on a Drug-Free America. Dr. Samenow has authored numerous articles for professional publications and appeared frequently on national radio and television broadcasts, including 60 Minutes, The Phil Donahue Show, Good Morning America, The CBS Morning News, the Today Show and The Larry King Show. Dr. Samenow appears in films exclusively for FMS:

   

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