Enhancing Self-Esteem

Live Seminar:

• 3 CEU's
• Presenter: Patrick DeChello Ph.D., MSW, LCSW, RPH
• Check for seminar availability in Arizona (AZ), Connecticut (CT), Florida (FL), Illinois (IL), Louisiana (LA), Maine (ME), Massachusetts (MA), Michigan (MI), Oregon (OR), Rhode Island (RI), Texas (TX), Vermont (VT), Washington (WA)

Book:

• DS 18 Making Effective Mental Status Exams and Suicide Assessments
• Author: Patrick DeChello Ph.D., MSW, LCSW

Home study Courses:

• 7 CEU's
• 3 CEU's

On-line Course: Coming Soon

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION, SUMMARY AND OUTLINE

Self-esteem is the collection of beliefs or feelings that we have about ourselves, or our "self-perceptions." It is the Ego and how we define ourselves. It influences our motivations, attitudes, and behaviors and affects our emotional adjustment.

Our self-esteem develops and evolves throughout our lives as we build an image of ourselves through our experiences with different people and activities. Experiences during our childhood play a particularly large role in the shaping of our basic self-esteem.

Self-concept is how you see yourself. It is clear that to have a high level of self-esteem you will need to have a positive self-view and the opposite is also true. Low self-esteem can have devastating consequences.

• It can create anxiety, stress, loneliness and increased likelihood for depression.
• It can cause problems with friendships and relationships.
• It can seriously impair academic and job performance.
• It can lead to underachievement and increased vulnerability to drug and alcohol abuse.

Worst of all, these negative consequences themselves reinforce the negative self-image and can take a person into a downward spiral of lower and lower self-esteem and increasingly non-productive or even actively self-destructive behavior.

Objectives Participants will:

• Learn to define self-esteem and identify how it is developed.
• Be able to distinguish Poor versus Healthy Self-esteem.
• Understand the role of self-concept as a factor in self-esteem development.
• Be able to understand the role of self-awareness in ego development.
• Be able to identify consequences of low and high self-esteem.
• Learn behaviors that parents can do to raise their child's self-esteem.
• Identify how to create an environment conducive to positive self-esteem.
• Understand the importance of self-nurturance.
• Understand the critical role played by parents to nurture positive self-esteem.