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male edition
DI2 | “What’s wrong with my relationships?”- Caretaking, Enabling, and Codependency | Addresses typical thinking underlying codependent behavior and relationships, as well as other dysfunctional relationship behavior. | |
M2 | Healthy relationships and healthy boundaries | Participants will identify: family-of-origin boundary issues, personal warning signs that boundaries need to be set; personal experiences and effects of physical, emotional, sexual and verbal abuse, and drug/alcohol use as a result of boundary violations. Additionally, client will identify areas where difficulties have recently been experienced in setting boundaries and develop an action plan to start setting boundaries for specific personal problem situations. Clients will practice assertion messages to be used in setting boundaries for current issues and use practice scenarios for setting boundaries. | |
FD2 | Facing your dependencies | Helps clients identify additional dependency issues and identifies possible risks of replacing one dependency with another. | |
FD3 | Control! | Identifies and addresses range of controlling behaviors and control issues and links controlling with dependencies. Topics include need to control feelings and controlling of others. | |
DI8 | “What’s wrong with ‘people pleasing’?” | Addresses specific issues in dependent relationships. Addresses people pleasing as a form of codependent behavior, a manipulation and control issue, and as a form of compensating for underlying issues (including low-self-esteem) | |
DI3 | “What’s wrong with being empathetic and generous? | Identifies issues with apparent generosity and interpersonal empathetic behavior, including inappropriate or unusual behavior (“over-doing it”). Examines possible compensation for underlying issues and feelings. | |
DI4 | “What’s wrong with being self-sacrificing?” | Addresses self-sacrifice or “martyr” behavior as compensation and as possible manipulation or control issues | |
M8 | Avoiding your old family traps | Family neglect, abandonment, abuse, or addiction often lead to the development of dysfunctional behaviors. In many cases, these even become family “roles.” This workbook identifies some of these old family roles and “traps” and provides options. | |
ST1 | “Downers”: “stinking thinking” and low self-esteem (#1) |
51 separate “stinking thinking” issues are addressed in this series, using worksheets for cognitive restructuring. Each lesson provides examples of this form of cognitive distortion, asks participants to examine their own thinking, then guides the examination - including consequences. Worksheets guide the development of new ways of thinking and responding. Counselors are provided tools to help select appropriate lessons for use with individual or groups. Major topic areas include criminal thinking, negativity, manipulation of others, and issues which emerge in recovery programs and groups. |
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ST2 | “Stinking thinking” and other people (controlling, anger, and dishonesty) (#2) | ||
ST3 | “Stinking thinking” . . . and people in recovery (#3) |