Presented by Teresa Scott, LMFT
Includes 2 CE credits for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and LCSWs. Lunch buffet will be served at 11:15 AM for in person attendees. The presentation will begin at 12:00 PM. This event will be in person and live online. It will not be recorded.
Description
This workshop introduces mental health professionals to Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP). This program helps participants learn the core basics that can translate into most models of therapy. Through video examples and didactic trainings, participants will learn to understand unconscious anxiety, identify defense mechanisms, and apply these insights in clinical practice to enhance therapeutic skills and enhance professional growth.
By the end of this program, participants will be able to provide information about the basic principles of ISTDP including:
- Anxiety assessment and regulation
- Defense identification and restructuring
- Identification of unconscious emotions
- Eliciting and elaborating feeling experience
- Maintain therapeutic focus and building the alliance
- Assessing and building will and motivation for change
- Increased confidence in use of clinical skills
- Identify a patients will to engage in treatment
- Identify defenses
- Distinguish emotion from anxiety responses
Program Goal
This training will equip therapists with the basic strategies to assist patients to identify and confront interpersonal avoidance behaviors that can impede therapeutic progress. Through moment-to-moment tracking of emotional experiences and challenging defenses, therapists will understand how this model can facilitate deeper emotional engagement and restructure their patients internal attachment model. This will lead to sustained change and better outcomes with their patients.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Visually identify the 3 Anxiety pathways and how to regulate them
- Identify the Unconscious Therapeutic Alliance
- identify the 3 corners of the Triangle of Conflict and Triangle of Persons
About the Presenter
Teresa (Teri) Scott is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California (#97228), specializing in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) in her private practice in Palo Alto, CA. Before starting her private practice, Teri worked as an Art Educator, Program Manager and Director of Community Based Organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently she works as a clinical therapist, clinical supervisor, provides consultation and supervision, and provides training in ISTDP.
This is an introductory level course.
TARGET AUDIENCE: LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs
If you miss any of the presentation, you will not be eligible for the CEUs. This course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. SCV-CAMFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs (CEPA 052466). SCV-CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
The views expressed in this presentation are those of the speaker and not, necessarily, of SCV-CAMFT. SCV-CAMFT can not be held liable for any damages arising from recommendations or advice given by our speakers or any actions or decisions arising out of the content of this presentation. Presentations at SCV-CAMFT events do not constitute an endorsement of the vendor or speaker's views, products or services.
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