When Clients Can't Visualize: Aphantasia Course for Mental Health Professionals | Aphantasia Network
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When Clients Can't Visualize
Course overview
Course overview
Introduction to the Course
Module 1 · What Is Aphantasia?
Lesson 1: What Is Mental Imagery?
Lesson 1: What Is Mental Imagery?
Lesson 2: What Is Aphantasia?
Lesson 2: What Is Aphantasia?
Lesson 3: Where Are You on the Spectrum?
Lesson 3: Where Are You on the Spectrum?
Lesson 4: Screening Clients in Practice
Lesson 4: Screening Clients in Practice
Optional deep dive: what a screening score can and can't tell you
Optional deep dive: what a screening score can and can't tell you
Knowledge Check
Knowledge Check
Reflection
Reflection
End of Module 1
End of Module 1
Module 2 · The Evidence
Lesson 1: 135 Years Without a Name
Lesson 1: 135 Years Without a Name
Lesson 2: Evidence Beyond Self-Report
Lesson 2: Evidence Beyond Self-Report
Lesson 3: Inside the Brain, and the Questions Clinicians Ask
Lesson 3: Inside the Brain, and the Questions Clinicians Ask
Optional deep dive: the leading theories
Optional deep dive: the leading theories
Knowledge Check
Knowledge Check
Reflection
Reflection
End of Module 2
End of Module 2
Module 3 · The Clinical Picture
Lesson 1: Memory Without the Replay
Lesson 1: Memory Without the Replay
Optional deep dive: how memory works without pictures
Optional deep dive: how memory works without pictures
Lesson 2: Emotion, Trauma and the Imagery Amplifier
Lesson 2: Emotion, Trauma and the Imagery Amplifier
Optional deep dive: the imagery-emotion loop
Optional deep dive: the imagery-emotion loop
Lesson 3: SDAM, Alexithymia and Neurodivergence
Lesson 3: SDAM, Alexithymia and Neurodivergence
Optional deep dive: the alexithymia question
Optional deep dive: the alexithymia question
Lesson 4: When Aphantasia Looks Like Something Else
Lesson 4: When Aphantasia Looks Like Something Else
Knowledge Check
Knowledge Check
Reflection
Reflection
End of Module 3
End of Module 3
Module 4 · Adapting Your Practice
Lesson 1: The Active Ingredient Framework
Lesson 1: The Active Ingredient Framework
Optional deep dive: what the treatment evidence shows
Optional deep dive: what the treatment evidence shows
Lesson 2: The Framework at Work in CBT
Lesson 2: The Framework at Work in CBT
Lesson 3: Adapting EMDR
Lesson 3: Adapting EMDR
Lesson 4: The Audit in Mindfulness, DBT and Grounding
Lesson 4: The Audit in Mindfulness, DBT and Grounding
Lesson 5: Grief Work Without Pictures
Lesson 5: Grief Work Without Pictures
Lesson 6: When the Best Adaptation Is None
Lesson 6: When the Best Adaptation Is None
Knowledge Check
Knowledge Check
Reflection
Reflection
End of Module 4
End of Module 4
Module 5 · Building an Aphantasia-Informed Practice
Lesson 1: The Whole Course, One Client
Lesson 1: The Whole Course, One Client
Lesson 2: Integrating Screening Into Practice
Lesson 2: Integrating Screening Into Practice
Lesson 3: The Therapeutic Language Audit
Lesson 3: The Therapeutic Language Audit
Lesson 4: From Course to Practice
Lesson 4: From Course to Practice
Knowledge Check
Knowledge Check
Reflection
Reflection
End of Module 5
End of Module 5
Final Assessment and Course Evaluation
Final Assessment
Final Assessment
Course Evaluation
Course Evaluation
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Introduction to the Course