Integrating Myers-Briggs Type into Treatment Planning and Counseling

Integrating Myers-Briggs Type into Treatment Planning and Counseling

Bob Armstrong, M.A., M.Div., LPCC

Friday, April 19, 2013

6 CEUs:  Counselors, Social Workers and Nurses

9:00AM - 4:30PM

Registration 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

(Lunch, MBTI profile, and materials provided)

Participants will complete an online MBTI profile prior to the workshop

Fee: $125 / Student rate $85

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DESCRIPTION:

Too often personality type is applied as a label to ‘box’ clients into a particular style of interaction. However, the sequencing of preferences and developmental dimensions of type provide marvelous tools to customize treatment plans and counseling. While the counselor’s own personality type will affect their approach, building a treatment plan with the client’s preferences in mind can broaden one’s range of interventions and clarify an approach which will be most accessible for the client.

CEU OBJECTIVES:

• Assess the process of taking the instrument and verifying type with clients.
• Clarify the role and influence of dominant, auxiliary, tertiary and inferior preferences.
• Recognize the developmental nature of a client’s personality development.
• Learn to assess type development and flexibility in clients.
• Be able to explain to clients the value of developing less preferred functions in positive interactions.
• Be able to describe the negative impact of stress on flexibility and adaptability in applying the functions.
• Develop strategies for integrating type into treatment planning and counseling.

PRESENTER:

Bob Armstrong is an LPCC with a Masters Degree in Marriage & Family Counseling/Therapy from the University of Akron. He specializes in working with couples, primarily from the perspective of attachment theory, addressing marital conflict, relationship breakdown, and blended family issues. He is a qualified Prepare-Enrich trainer utilizing the inventories for pre-marital and couples counseling, and certified to teach and use the Myers-Brigg Personality Type Inventory (MBTI). He also received his Master of Divinity (Adult Education) from Princeton Theological Seminary and has served as a pastor for over 30 years. In addition to his clinical practice, Bob serves as chief consultant for an international consulting firm that provides transformational processes for non-profit organizations and coaching for their leaders. He is a gifted trainer and highly respected professional in the greater Cleveland community.