Description

Leader: Joel Vos, Ph.D., Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer, Metanoia Institute, London

Cost: $125.00

Date: Friday, February 28th, 2025 | 9:30 am EST – 12:45 pm EST

Location: Zoom

3 Contact Hours/3 Continuing Education Credits will be provided by Albert Ellis Institute upon completion of the workshop.

Target Audience: Psychologists, Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Graduate Students

Instructional Level: Introductory  (Basic knowledge of REBT is recommended)

Description:

This workshop aims to equip REBT therapists with evidence-based strategies to address meaning in life within their therapeutic practice. Drawing from the latest research and Dr. Vos’s extensive work in the field, participants will learn how to integrate meaning-centered approaches with REBT techniques. The session will start by giving an overview of the types of questions that clients may ask about meaning in life, as research shows that the majority of clients asking for therapeutic support have explicit or implicit questions about meaning. We will subsequently explore how it can be helpful to use REBT principles and techniques to help clients with their quest for meaning, for example, by helping them develop more helpful and realistic attitudes toward life. Subsequently, the workshop will explore common misconceptions about meaning in life, and give an overview of the research field on meaning, including an introduction of the six universal types of meaning and three approaches to life. We will discuss research showing that clients benefit the most from having between four and five examples of meaning in life, which they discovered via critically listening to their intuition, and focusing on social and larger types of meaning. Increasing evidence is also emerging for the key role of a sense of meaning, affect regulation, and functioning of the nervous system. The last, and largest, part of the session will be dedicated to discussing a systematic treatment for meaning-oriented cognitive behavior therapy, which integrates insights from REBT and meaning-oriented/existential therapies.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Identify different types of meaning-related questions commonly presented by clients in therapeutic settings;
2. Apply REBT principles and techniques to help clients develop more helpful and realistic attitudes toward life in their quest for meaning;
3. Differentiate between the six universal types of meaning and three approaches to life, as supported by current research in the field;
4. Implement a systematic treatment approach for meaning-oriented cognitive behavior therapy that integrates REBT and existential therapy principles.

Schedule:

9:30 am – 10:00 am – Introduction to how working with meaning in life fits REBT principles; Types of meaning-related questions clients ask; Importance of addressing meaning in therapy

10:00 am – 10:30 am – Explore how REBT principles and techniques may help clients with questions about meaning in life; Using REBT techniques to develop helpful attitudes towards life

10:30 am – 11:30 am – Common misconceptions about meaning; Overview of meaning research; Six universal types of meaning; Three approaches to life

11:30 am- 12:20 pm – Overview of systematic treatment approach; Integrating REBT and existential therapy principles; Case examples and practical applications

12:20pm – 12:30pm – Q&A and Conclusion

12:30 pm- 12:45 pm – Evaluations

Recommended Readings:

Instructor Credentials:

Dr. Joel Vos is a chartered psychologist and philosopher with extensive experience in existential, humanistic, and cognitive-behavioral therapies. He has published over 160 articles in peer reviewed journals and books, specializing in meaning in life, systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, and conceptual models of existential and humanistic psychotherapies. Dr. Vos has developed and tested existential and humanistic treatments in clinical trials, which are now used worldwide. He is the author of several books, including “Meaning in Life: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Practitioners”, ‘The Economics of Meaning in Life”, “An Evidence-based Handbook of Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy”, “Doing Research in Psychological Therapies: A Step-by-step Guide”, and “The Psychology of COVID-19.” Dr. Vos has been awarded approximately two and a half million GBP in grants and awards for his research.

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