2.5 clock hour Continuing Education Credits are provided as a recorded session if you pass the post-test following the course video content. The certificate of completion will be emailed to you within 10 minutes after passing the post-test.
Content Areas:
Counseling Theory/Practice and the Counseling Relationship
This is an introductory course on understanding Worth-Conscious Theory (WCT) to be used with clients by clinicians in a therapeutic setting.
This presentation will focus on the tenets of Worth-Conscious Theory (WCT) – a novel
approach to the unique challenges faced when self-worth has been systemically denied
and a pattern of denying self-worth has been established outside of personal
awareness. Being worth-conscious is a learned behavior that provides a dignifying
frame of reference and supports well-being. In a family system, self-worth can be
consistently affirmed or denied incrementally through conditions, counterfeits, and
competing values. Mental and emotional balance can be negatively impacted, and a
perceived lack of fundamental human worth can hinder recovery. WCT provides new
tools to enhance a mental health toolkit, including recognizing the pattern of denied self-
worth and addressing the existence of a lost worth story.
Birthright Self-Worth refers to the worthiness inherent in all human beings that exists because the person exists. It can be affirmed or denied, but not lost. To honor our birthright of being worthy is to affirm it by developing and practicing the concepts within the four-pillars of self-worth framework. In support of scholars’ assertions that self-worth is a birthright and not something to be earned or lost, we maintain that the only action that can remove self-worth is to deny it.
To understand Worth-Conscious Theory (WCT), we build on the research from self-worth in this course. Aspects of myths that clients have on self-worth are addressed including specific phrases and ideas that clients may say. Clinicans will be given tools on how to address these maladaptive values. Common pitfalls are discussed as well in how clinicians work with clients with both self-esteem and self-worth problems. Distorted, twisted, or mistakes in thinking are compared to other theories, practices, and interventions. The benefits of each theory and how Worth-Conscious Theory addresses these issues are discussed in a practical way clinicians can bring to their own practice.
Workshop attendees can expect to complete these objectives"
1. Demonstrate understanding of the key concepts in Worth-Conscious Theory
(WCT).
2. Utilize WCT concepts to inform psychotherapeutic work.
3. Integrate one or more WCT concepts into your mental health toolkit.
Other aspects include:
• Show examples of how self-worth has been defined in the past.
• Review prior theory and context of human worth.
• Explore self-worth through the eyes of a few great thinkers.
• Recognize the deeply personal experience of a worthy or unworthy narrative.
• Present the connection between unworthiness and psychache.
• Demystify self-worth myths and provide ideas to counter common mistakes.
• Reframe self-worth using a new theoretical model.
• Expound on the existing theories and hypothesis of self-worth.
• Introduce Worth-Conscious Theory and the basic constructs.
• Present the WCT Pyramid model.
• Teach three worth-affirming techniques.
• Discuss ways that denied client self-worth may impact the counseling process.
Other Course Information:
Partial credit/partial attendance is not allowed for this course.
If you have any questions about this course or would like to request accommodations, you can contact us.
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INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
Missouri Licensee Number: 2008035324
As a professional counselor in private practice, Dawna specializes in treating individuals experiencing self-worth issues. She has learned that sometimes depression and anxiety stem from denied self-worth. This reality has prompted her to hone her skills for repairing self-worth as a central need.
Dawna created the So Worthy app (2020) to include pathways that guide people back to self-worth. The app was a prototype, and a new self-worth affirming app is in the works to launch in 2026. It will be an extension of a technique in the book she co-authored with Dr. Chris Brown, Understanding Self-Worth: A Guide to Worth-Conscious Theory and Psychotherapeutic Practice (arriving fall 2025), and the app will be free to mental health providers.
Dawna graduated from the University of Missouri—Kansas City with a master’s degree in counseling and continued her education there, achieving an Ed.S. degree. Throughout her career, she has authored local articles and blogs on balance and self-awareness and led workshops, seminars, and group classes. She was an ongoing presenter at a regional self-improvement seminar for four years and has conducted speaking engagements at various local events.
In 2012, Dawna wrote the Ribbon of Worth essay to assist her clients in forming a mental image of how to protect self-worth. She created an online Facebook community called Ribbon of Worth to promote individual and community wellness through sharing her wealth of experience on self-worth. It was through this initial effort and Daigneault’s own process of self-care and learning from client experience that the website was born to support self-worth as a key component in wellness.
COURSE ACCREDITATIONS
NATIONAL BOARD OF CERTIFIED COUNSELORS (NBCC)
Counselor’s Choice Award has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education
Provider, ACEP No. 7344. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.
Counselor’s Choice Award is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS
Counselor's Choice Award Continuing Education is an National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Washington State Chapter Approved Continuing Education Provider and offers approved clock hours for events that meet Washington State CE Counselors requirements. This workshop has been approved for CEs by the Washington Chapter, National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counselors. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program. (Provider #1975-490)
OKLAHOMA STATE BOARD OF LICENSED ALCOHOL AND DRUG COUNSELORS
Counselor's Choice Award Continuing Education is an Oklahoma State Board of Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselors-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and offers OSBLADC-approved clock hours for events that meet Oklahoma State Board of Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselors requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program. (Provider #20230154)
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