ISTFP Committees

Chair(s)

Luis Valenciano (ES)
Irene Sarno (IT)

Chair Subcommittee on Supervision: Eve Caligor (USA)

Members

Marion Braun (GR); Peter Buchheim (DE); Eve Caligor (USA); Sergio Dazzi (IT); Stephan Doering (AU); Diana Diamond (USA); Frank Denning (UK); Nel Draijer (NL)); Otto Kernberg (USA); Mathias Lohmer (DE); Philipp Martius (DE); Frank E. Yeomans (USA); Judit Lendvay, (USA)
Verónica Steiner (CL), Katarzyna Gwozdz (PL)

Mission

Goal of the T&E Committee is to establish and maintain quality standards for international TFP training and supervision and to promote the development of standardized teaching tools.
The T&E Committee prepares the educational policy of the ISTFP, it prepares the regulations for certification and the rules and documents on examination

Initiatives for the year 2024-2026

1. Formalization and finalizing the ISTFP documents on ‘Levels of certification’, procedures for examination and making them accessible for all members of ISTFP on the website.
2. Organizing therapist exams for countries without a local TFP organization; and organizing Trainer-supervisor exams.
3. Sub committee on Supervision is preparing 1) a paper on TFP supervision; 2) a curriculum on supervision; 3) a reading list on TFP supervision; 4) developing a training tool for teaching and supervising microprocess
4. Organizing the Bi-Annual ISTFP Supervisors’ Meeting to be held in Madrid in the Fall of 2025

Chair(s)

Lina Normandin, (Canada)

Members

Karin Ensink (Canada)Gabriele Kehr (Germany)Maya Krischer (Germany)Emanuele Preti (Italy).Teresa Ribalta (Spain)Irene Sarno (Italy)Brenda Tarragona (Spain)Alan Weiner (USA)
Clarissa Laczkovics (Austria), Marko Biberdzic (Canada), Nicholas day (Australia), Alexander Sheppe (USA), Joanna Bird (USA)

Mission

Pursue the development of TFP-A.
Support the new development in TFP-A (TFP-A for group and Working with parents)
Support research on PD in adolescence and RCT for TFP-A

Initiatives for the year 2024-2026

1. Elaboration of a uniform training curriculum in TFP-A;
2. Elaboration of a common research protocol across sites;
3. Writing a new edition of the TFP-A manual
4. Writing the TFP-A model of supervision
5. Development of TFP-A for group (adolescent and parents)
6. Development of strategies to work with difficult parents
7. Disseminate the model through training new groups of TFP-A therapists and supervisors.
8. Developing a training workshop on the STIPO-A
9. Plan an international conference on subjects like integration of sexuality into the adolescent identity: normal and pathological; narcissism in adolescence and trauma and TFP-A (to be determined)

Chair(s)

Marike Steeman (visual arts and film)

Members

Diana Diamond (film and literature), Pepa Gonzalez (photography), Eda Vendys Bakalarova (film and culture), Alvise Orlandini (music and mythology), Miguel Angel Gonzalez Torres (architecture and art), Fabio Madeddu (literature)

Mission

To understand arts and culture from an object relational point of view.

Initiatives

Chair(s)

Frank Denning (UK)

Members

Sergio Dazzi, Monica Carsky, Iván Arango, Petra Holler, Alan Weiner, Teresa Ribalta Torrades.

Mission

The ethics committee exists to ensure the ISTFP has a robust ethical framework that is relevant to our members and effective in practice.

Initiatives for the year 2024-2026

1. We are engaged in the lengthy process of re-writing our Code of Ethics. We have recently welcomed two colleagues, Teresa and Alan, from the Adolescents Committee. Their presence will enhance our work and ensure the Code is applicable to working with adolescents. We aim to complete the Code in the next few months.
2. We hope a new Code of Ethics will be in place by the end of 2025.
3. One of our proposals is to ask those who join the ISTFP to formally acknowledge they subscribe to the Code.

Chair(s)

Chiara De Panfilis (Italy), Richard Hersh (USA)

Members

Eve Caligor (USA), Sergio Dazzi (Italy), Frank Denning (UK), Chiara De Panfilis (Italy), Richard Hersh (USA), Benjamin Kraus (Switzerland), Jonathan Radcliffe (UK), Michael Rentrop (Germany), Eulalia Ripoll (Spain), Christiane Roesch (Switzerland), María Jesús Rufat (Spain), Luis Valenciano (Spain), Jo-Anna VanDenBosch (UK)

Mission

This committee aims to bring together, to study and to develop the various applications of TFP principles in mental health settings other than the standard twice-a-week outpatient individual psychotherapy setting. Examples include, but are not limited to, modifications of TFP for family interventions, group therapy or forensic settings; implementation of inpatient treatments for PD with TFP principles, techniques and strategies; application of TFP principles within a variety of clinical situations and experiences, such as general outpatient psychiatric care for PD, consultation-liaison psychiatry or medical settings, elderly patients, psychoeducation interventions. Broadly speaking, such initiatives are now referred as “Applied TFP.”

Initiatives for the year 2024-2026

1. To complete the book initiative “Implementing General Psychiatric Care for Personality Disorders with TFP principles”
2. To foster initiatives such as: TFP for groups initiative and TFP for families
3. To prepare a set of “Applied TFP Power points” as a first step toward an Applied TFP curriculum
4. To Prepare a list of publications / presentations on various aspect of applied TFP (e.g., psychopharmacotherapy, psychoeducation, hospitalization, etc.)

Chair(s)

Mathieu Norton-Poulin (Canada); Veronica Steiner (Chile);

Members

Silvia Bernardi (USA); Theophilus Kok (China); Diana Tellez (Mexico); Glauco Valdivieso (Peru);

Mission

Our purpose is to gather, organize and transmit information to our members about the activities of the ISTFP and local TFP groups. In term, we hope to develop a media structure that can simplify the marketing of events (lectures, training, recruitment) for local groups. We are also responsible for raising professional (therapists, psychiatrist, etc.) and public awareness about the benefits of TFP.

Initiatives for the year 2024-2026

1. Continue to offer marketing for TFP events of TFP groups
2. Keep the ISTFP training page updated and add sections for Online events and Conferences.
3. Continue sending official emails to TFP group leaders, inviting them to submit their TFP events for promotion on the website and in both newsletters.
4. Continue publishing the Mental Health Professionals Newsletter every three months and increase subscriptions to the MHP mailing list.
5. Continue publishing the ISTFP Member’s Newsletter.
6. Increase the number of papers available in the Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Online Library.
7. Continue upgrading the ISTFP website to enhance functionality and content.
8. Continue encouraging paper submissions to ISTFP-PRESS and ensure broad participation.
9. Enhance the value of therapist and teacher/supervisor certifications by creating a searchable directory on the ISTFP website, allowing patients, professionals seeking supervision, and event organizers to verify TFP accreditations.