Educational Objectives:
To know how family systems therapy helps therapists to construct effective interventions
To help psychotherapists keep an open mind to science
To help psychotherapists assist patients to form clear choices in their interactions
Invited Address Session 3 - Part 2 - My Many Voices: Personal Perspectives on Family Therapy featuring Salvador Minuchin, MD.
With discussant Zerka Moreno.
Moderated by Sharon Cottor, MSW.
Educational Objectives:
To trace the development of therapeutic language from interpretation to injunctions
To show the effect that this evolution has had on the idea of "reality adaptation," highlight the "as if" nature of our interpretations
Invited Address Session 5 - Part 1 - Transactional Analysis and Redecision: A Short-Term, Focused Approach to Change featuring Mary M. Goulding, MSW.
With discussant Jeffrey K Zeig, PhD.
Moderated by Theodore Reid, Jr, MD.
Invited Address Session 5 - Part 2 - Group Therapy: Mainline or Sideline? featuring Robert L. Goulding, MD.
With discussant Virginia M Satir, ACSW.
Moderated by F. Theodore Reid, Jr, MD.
The Cognitive Model of anxiety as applied to acute and chronic anxiety, post-traumatic disorders, agoraphobias, panic disorders and simple phobias will be presented.
Cognitive-behavioral strategies include identification and evaulation of dysfunctional cognition, induced imagery, induced panic attacks, and cognitive monitoring of exposure treatment. A videotaped demonstration of the treatment of panic disorders will be shown.
The distinguishing elements of a psychotherapy conducted from an existential orientation and holding humanistic values. Topics briefly dealt with include centering on process rather than content; authenticity of encounter; commitment; presence; concern; the subjective; intentionality vs. causality; and developing depth of inquiry. Didactic presentations, questions and discussion, and demonstrations.