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Keeping the Brain in Mind: How knowing more about the brain can help you become a better therapist
[15 Credits]
Dates:
Continuous
The inability to emotionally regulate underlies our clients/patients presenting symptomology. Neuroscience points to the need for healing in the circuitry of the right hemisphere, which is dominant for attachment, intense emotionality and the knowledge of how to be in a relationship. Readings and discussions will be focused on neuroscience applicable to clinical practice primarily with individuals, but will extend to couples work as well.
Introduction to Chronic, Complex Trauma [Archive]
[9 Credits]
Dates:
Oct 06 - Oct 26,2008
This course provides an introduction to the recognition and treatment of “Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorders and Dissociative Processes.” The program focuses on the roles of attachment and trauma in the development of post-traumatic disorders and provides opportunities to explore risk management issues, affect dysregulation and stabilization, and the organization of the post-traumatic mind.
Emotion: An Integrative Framework for Child Psychotherapy
[12 Credits]
Dates:
Feb 22 - Mar 14,2010
Emotion is the common ground of contemporary child psychotherapy – and our common language in talking with children. This course will review recent advances in the psychology and neuroscience of emotions and then explore how a systematic focus on the child’s emotions helps solve some of our most persistent clinical problems: how we can engage more children in treatment, unlock vicious cycles of defiance and withdrawal, and provide the kind of understanding – to both parents and children - that promotes openness, initiative, and pro-social character development.
Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: An Unfolding Dialogue [Continuous]
[6 Credits]
Dates:
Continuous
Although there was a flurry of interest in Buddhism by psychoanalysts such as Erich Fromm and Karen Horney in the 1950s and 1960s, this interest to some extent went underground until recent years. Currently, however there is a marked resurgence of interest in the topic. In this seminar we will explore contemporary thinking about the relationship between psychoanalysis and Buddhism, and examine various ways in which a dialogue between these two traditions can have an impact on psychoanalytic thinking and practice. We will also examine Buddhist thinking and practice through the lens of psychoanalytic theory, and explore various ways in which Buddhism is evolving as it becomes assimilated by psychoanalytic culture.
Mind Body Integration of the Self in Treating Weight Regulation: The Hollow Victory of Weight Loss [Continuous]
[15 Credits]
Dates:
Continuous
Scope: An innovative psychotherapeutic approach to the clinical challenge of weight regulation problems in treating the overweight and medically obese disordered eating patient (O.D.E.)
Focus: An integrated mind/body approach to weight regulation incorporating bio-medical principles of weight regulation.
Applications: Clinical applications for body image symptoms, developmental disruptions, affect dysregulation, attachment disturbances, and dissociative self-states emanating from developmental trauma.
An Applied Mentoring Group for Professionals. Please check current dates and topics covered at http://www.franweiss.com/psybc-teleseminar.htm
Eating Disorders, Attachment and Affect Regulation (Feb, 08)
[12 Credits]
Dates:
Feb 18 - Mar 09,2008
Eating disorders continue to increase so dramatically that today almost every therapist works with someone who is bulimic, anorexic, eats or exercises compulsively. Research suggests that difficulties in attachment and affect regulation are key to the development and treatment of these problems. With clinical examples and ideas drawn from contemporary discussions of neuroscience, attachment theory and affect regulation, this course will open doors to the internal worlds of eating disorders. Whether experienced or new to the field, therapists will find thought-provoking material and practical therapeutic suggestions in this seminar with experienced clinician, author and teacher F. Diane Barth.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy [Continuous]
[20 Credits]
Dates:
Continuous
Continuous Seminar
A comprehensive, clinically oriented, overview of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), including the DBT theory of the etiology of borderline personality disorder (BPD), the philosophy of dialectics and how it informs behavioral treatment of BPD, principles and therapeutic interventions specific to DBT illustrated by case examples, efficacy research, and the treatment of chronic suicidal behavior.
I Shop, Therefore I Am: Understanding and Treating Compulsive Buying (Fall 2005) [Continuous]
[12 Credits]
Dates:
Continuous
Compulsive buying is finally coming out of the closet. In this course we begin with a thorough introduction to “affluenza”, or compulsive buying disorder and explore the sociocultural context, etiology, assessment, diagnosis, comorbidity and function of this widespread addiction. We continue with a survey of the forms of treatment and treatment adjuncts known to be effective with this population, and focus on specific tools and strategies. We also touch on the therapist’s countertransference regarding money issues.
Introduction to Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy (Continuous)
[18 Credits]
Dates:
Continuous
Continuous Seminar
This course provides an introduction to Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy, a modality for dispelling clinical symptoms by focusing in on the crucial, unconscious emotional material maintaining them. DOBT is for individuals, couples and families. Its nonpathologizing, experiential, collaborative methodology could refresh and expand your vision of what’s possible in therapy.
Domestic Violence: Attachment, Assessment, and Treatment (Continuous)
[7 Credits]
Dates:
Continuous
Continuous Seminar
This seminar blends several exciting areas of psychological inquiry – domestic violence, neurobiology and attachment theory. Participants will learn how to assess and treat both perpetrators and victims of violence from a new integrative perspective.
Attachment Informed Psychotherapy [Continuous]
[16 Credits]
Dates:
Continuous
Attachment Informed Psychotherapy, previously entitled Attachment Informed Adult and Couple Psychotherapy
(This seminar was previously known as Attachment Informed Psychotherapy.)
Attachment theory has earned a place in our thinking equal in stature to sex and intersubjectivity. In this seminar, participants will learn the neurobiological underpinnings, it’s origins in infant development, how to evaluate attachment styles as they are implicated in the psychotherapist-patient relationship and in psychopathology, and how to integrate these understanding into clinical practice. Daniel Sonkin is a leading researcher and award winning teacher in the field of attachment theory.
Advanced Ethics: The Anatomy of Professional Disciplinary Actions-How to Protect Yourself [Continuous Seminar]
[4 Credits]
Dates:
Continuous
Knowing the actual legal and ethical dangers of practice allows one to avoid them. This course will show practitioners what actually happens in a malpractice action, licensing board or ethics complaint with specific case illustrations. It also provides preventive steps mental health professionals can take both to avoid complaints and manage them should they arise.
Bryant Welch has broken his longer seminar on this topic into segments designed to accommodate your licensing requirements. The entire course was taught in 2004 and received extraordinary evaluations.
Working with Dysregulated Couples (08) [Continuous]
[12 Credits]
Dates:
Jan 14 - Feb 03,2008
The attachment drive for a secure base involves neurological and neuroendocrine systems and subsystems that determine such things as proximity seeking and contact maintenance. Couples most commonly enter therapy due to repeated, anticipated, and intense periods of mutual dysregulation whereby attachment injuries and adaptations become reanimated. In order to make the most of attachment theory, the psychotherapist must incorporate a working knowledge of the neurobiological processes that underlie all primary attachment relationships.
Dr. Tatkin will focus on the crucial role of arousal and affect regulation in the adult primary attachment relationship. His approach integrates mother-infant attachment, developmental neuroscience, psychobiological regulatory systems, therapeutic enactment, as well as the therapeutic frame and therapeutic stance necessary to such an undertaking.
Clinical Hypnosis [Continuous]
[54 Credits]
Dates:
Continuous
Continuous Seminar
The Clinical Hypnosis seminar is a hands-on, individually supervised, graduate level course designed to prepare medical and mental health professionals to competently perform hypnosis in the clinical setting in six weeks. Weekly assignments of reading, case work practicum, audio demonstrations, and testing guide the participant through a programmed sequence of learning modules. Participants will become certified in Medical/Analytical Hypnosis. CEUs include 6 hours of Ethics credits. Open to licensed professionals only.
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