Bessel van der Kolk Trauma Interview Series: Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., Developer and Founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) – Bessel Van der Kolk & Richard C. Schwartz

In this interview, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk talks with Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., developer and founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) – hailed by Dr. van der Kolk as “the treatment method that all clinicians should know to treat clients effectively”.

Listen to Dr. Schwartz’s discovery of IFS through his work with families and the roles that individuals play in a family system. Within an individual, these same roles exist as parts – all of which serve important and purposeful functions. Drs. van der Kolk and Schwartz identify each part and the role they play, illustrate the relationships between them, and stress the importance of honoring and welcoming all parts in helping clients.

Through role play, observe how Dr. Schwartz uses IFS in therapy. Find tips, tricks, and resources that you can use to begin your journey using this treatment modality for your traumatized clients or gain additional insight for the seasoned IFS practitioner.

1. Present the IFS Model and design ways to integrate IFS into your clinical practice.
2. Model how to work with clinician’s own parts.

• Internal Family Systems Therapy
  • The roles in IFS
  • The Self
• How the Therapist Shows Their Parts
• Working with Passive Clients
• IFS Role-Play
• The IFS Roles
  • Managers
  • Firefighters
  • Protectors
  • Exiles
    • Witnessing

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