Course Description and Learning Objectives
Course Description:
The Fire Extinguisher presentation identifies the emotionalized subconscious motivations operating in the relapse process. The main components of experience, emotion, and decision-making are used to create a highly effective model and technique for relapse prevention.
It explains how subconscious memories of addiction’s negative feelings and consequences can deescalate and neutralize the powerful cravings that lead to relapse. The Fire Extinguisher technique creates the crucial element, the Corrective Emotional Experience, which is the catalyst and operating principle of the model.
This process restores the conscious mind’s focus on the critical information necessary to change impulsive thought processes to rational and logical thinking. When this happens, maintaining sobriety becomes the most logical and sensible choice.
Learning Objectives:
1) Understand and explain the underlying cause driving the addiction and relapse process and Learn the Components of the Fire Extinguisher Model.
2) Understand why the client’s Experience, Feelings, and Decision-Making process are the critical elements of the technique.
3) Learn to elicit the client’s positive( rewarding) and negative (punitive) ) subconscious memories of their addiction.
4) Learn the Psychoeducational and Didactic Procedures for presenting the Fire Extinguisher in Group and Individual sessions.
5) Explain and emphasize the use of Hypnotic Suggestion, Visual Association, Metaphors, NLP phrasing, and Slogans, which especially facilitates the learning process on the sub-consequence and conscious levels. Motivational Enhancement therapy increases the client’s probability of remembering and applying the relapse prevention tool.
6) Clear examples of the psychological and clinical therapies used in the model. Explain how the use of Reality Therapy facilitates the shift in the mental focus from Impulsive to Reality thinking.
7) Explain and understand how the “Corrective Emotional Experience ” is the core element of the Fire Extinguisher model and technique.