Agenda

Day 1
Tuesday July 7, 2009

8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Lunch 12 noon - 1:00 pm

• Healing Yourself
• Stressful Events for Therapists
• Countertransference from a cognitive perspective
• Live demonstrations and personal healing
• T = Testing
• How to take a world-class clinical history
• Quick, easy, accurate diagnostic techniques
• How to use the EASY Diagnostic System
• How to assess progress within every therapy session
• How to assess therapeutic empathy and helpfulness
• How to assess suicidal urges
• How to learn from your patients
• Tracking and analyzing your data
• E = Empathy
• The Five Secrets of Effective Communication
• How to transform therapeutic failure into success
• How to handle the angry, critical patient
• How to motivate the passive, oppositional patient

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Dinner (on your own)

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Practice and Demonstration

8:00 pm Adjourn

 

Day 2
Wednesday July 8, 2009

8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Lunch 12 noon - 1:00 pm

• A = Agenda Setting
• The five steps in Agenda Setting
• Becoming the voice of the patient's resistance
• How to diagnose and overcome the 8 types of therapeutic resistance
• M = Methods
• How to develop a Daily Mood Log
• Common therapeutic errors, and how to avoid them
• The Recovery Circle
• Failing as Fast as You Can
• Why manualized therapy will never be effective
• How to individualize the treatment
• How to select the most effective techniques for each patient
• Diagnosing and Reversing Therapeutic Failure
• The Therapist's Report Card

4:30 pm Adjourn

 

Day 3
Thursday July 9, 2009

8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Lunch 12 noon - 1:00 pm

• Secrets of High-Speed Treatment
• Is rapid recovery possible?
• Do the effects last?
• Mastering Specific Techniques
• Uncovering Techniques
• The Individual Downward Arrow
• The Interpersonal Downward Arrow
• The What-If Technique
• The Hidden Emotion Technique
• Motivational Techniques
• The Cost-Benefit Analyses
• Straightforward CBA
• Paradoxical CBA
• The Decision-Making Form
• The Devil's Advocate Technique
• The Anti-Procrastination Sheet
• Role-Playing Techniques
• The Double-Standard Technique
• The Externalization of Voices
• Spiritual and Philosophical Techniques
• Self-Defense vs. the Acceptance Paradox
• Truth-Based Techniques
• Examine the Evidence
• The Experimental Technique
• The Survey Technique
• Reattribution
• Humor-Based Techniques
• Shame-Attacking Exercises
• Relapse Prevention Techniques

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Dinner (on your own)

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Practice and Demonstration

8:00 pm Adjourn

 

Day 4
Friday July 10, 2009

8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Lunch 12 noon - 1:00 pm

• Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy: "And It's All Your Fault!"
• Individual vs. Interpersonal Therapy
• Why CBT Won't Work for Relationship Problems
• How to develop an agenda for patients with interpersonal problems
• The most common therapeutic error of all—and how to stop making it!
• Ten GOOD Reasons to Maintain Conflict and Resist Intimacy
• The Relationship CBA
• The Relationship Journal
• The Five Secrets Revisited
• Role-Playing and Experiential Techniques
• The Intimacy Exercise
• The One-Minute Drill

4:30 pm Adjourn, certificate pick up