Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline, Narcissistic, and Other Severe Personality Disorders

Description

Applied TFP
TFP for Adolescents (TFP-A)
The Supervision Process
Psychological Identity and Social Identity
The Essence of TFP

We are introducing the next workshop in our TFP training program. Participants can attend just this three-day workshop, or they can access all previous workshops in the program.

See the workshop description for more details:

1.TFP for Adolescents /TFP-A/

• Cognitive Changes in Adolescence
• Implications of these Changes
• Conceptualization of the Etiology of Borderline Pathology in Adolescence
• Overall Aim of the Treatment
• SPECIFICITY of TFP-A
• Promoting the Developmental Phase
• Phases for TFP-A
• Assessment
• Structural Features of the Diagnostic System
• The Personality Assessment Interview
• Attachment Interview
• Particularities of the Beginning Phase
• Neutrality – Confidentiality
• Mentalization Capacities
• Developmental Crisis vs. Development Endangerment
• STIPO for TFP-A
• Working with Parents
• Parental Attitudes
• Shared understanding (parent and adolescent) of the problem and clinical judgment about the development endangerment
• Sharing Therapist Understanding of the Problem with Adolescent
• Sharing Therapist Understanding of the Problem with Parents
• Decision about Treatment
• Contract setting
• The Inevitable Presence of the Parents
• Parental Responsibilities and Authority
• Parental Threats to the Treatment
• Parental Investment in the Treatment (Collobaration)
• The Contract with Parent(s)
• Optimal characteristics of parents with adolescents who would benefit from TFP-A
• The Contract with the Adolescent
• Contract – Therapist Responsibilities
• Threats and Challenges to the Treatment
• Building a “Therapeutic Alliance” with the Adolescent / Establishing Personal Goals
• SPECIFIC TECHNIQUES
of TFP-A
• Markers of Change and Transition

2. Applied TFP

Transference is a universal phenomenon… and it’s better to be aware of it in any treatment setting

Why and how to apply TFP principles and techniques in processes and contexts other than psychotherapy

This block will be especially useful for doctors, social workers, and professionals in all other fields where we deal with another person, particularly in the contexts of crisis management, family involvement, inpatient psychiatry, medical settings, pharmacotherapy, psychiatry residency training.

3. The Supervision Process

• A Watchful Stance
• The 3 Channels of Communication… and External Reality
• Things to keep in mind (to the supervisor)
• Goals of supervision
• Common errors
• Countertransference and dissociation
• Recommendations for Supervision

4. Psychological Identity and Social Identity
5. The Essence of TFP

Modalities

Lectures

• Discussions of lectures
• Watching pieces of videos of sessions with patients and clinical discussions thereof
• Clinical supervision / with viewing fragments of patient sessions/
• Clinical supervision reviews and discussion
• Q&A sessions

We organize for our seminars a full-fledged bilingual space, when participants who prefer both English and Ukrainian languages can feel equally comfortable. All materials, slides, articles are given in both languages. The teacher uses bilingual slides during the presentation of the material. Audio broadcasting is done in separate audio channels: in English and in Ukrainian.

Daily schedule:
New York time 7:00 a.m. – 1:30 pm
London time 12:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Kyiv time: 14:00 – 20:30

There will be two 15-minute breaks and one 30-minute break

Tuition
Tuition is 620.00 USD

Faculty

Frank Yeomans, M.D., Ph.D.

Contact

If you have any questions contact the curriculum organizier Oleksii Lemeshchuk – tfpgroupukraine@gmail.com or +380674804903 (WhatsApp)

Registration

Follow the registration link or email Oleksii Lemeshchuk if you don’t have access to the registration platform – tfpgroupukraine@gmail.com

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