Within the ISTFP, Committees are established to promote attention to specific areas relevant to the field of TFP and to work on specific topics. Each committee is established by the ISTFP board, which also nominates its chair(s). Each committee define its activities and goals and report yearly on that to the ISTFP Board.
RESEARCH COMMITTEE
Chair(s)
John Clarkin (USA) Co-chairs: Stephan Doering (Austria); Emanuele Preti (Italy)
Members
Membership is in the process of expansion.
Mission
To serve as a nexus of communication among clinical researchers in the ISTFP.
To stimulate and assist in the generation of research among members of the ISFP. Areas of research interest include:
1) psychopathology research, especially as related to object relations theory,
2) research on clinical assessment, e.g., STIPO-R, IPO-A, LPOq.,
3) TFP process and outcome research
Initiatives for the year 2022
1) Updating of an annotated bibliography of research in the ISTFP
2) Generation of a general research plan for conducting randomized-clinical trials (RCT) of TFP.
3) Consultation with potential sites for the conduction of RCTs of TFP.
TRAINING & EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Chair(s)
Nel Draijer (NL)
Chair Subcommittee on Supervision: Eve Caligor (USA)
Members
Marion Braun (GR); Eve Caligor (USA); Sergio Dazzi (IT); Stephan Doering (AU); Diana Diamond (USA); Frank Denning (UK); Irene Sarno (IT); Otto Kernberg (USA); Mathias Lohmer (GR); Philipp Martius (GR); Luis Valenciano (ES); Frank E. Yeomans (USA);
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 2022
- Formalization and finalizing the ISTFP documents on ‘Levels of certification’, procedures for examination and making them accessible for all members of ISTFP.
- Organizing therapist exams for countries without a local TFP organization; and organizing Trainer-supervisor exams.
- Development of standard teaching decks of slides to be used internationally.
- 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
- Organizing a meeting for ISTFP supervisors at the Innsbruck Conference October 2022
ADOLESCENTS COMMITTEE
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)
Mission
Development, improvement, and validation of the TFP-A treatment. Support research either on BPO in adolescence (descriptive, clinical, longitudinal, development of research instruments) or RCT on the efficacy of TFP-A. Development of Certification guidelines for TFP-A therapist and teacher-supervisor. Development of uniform training curriculum in TFP-A amongst countries.
Initiatives for the year 2022
Revision of the certification guidelines for TFP-A.
Elaboration of a uniform training curriculum.
Supporting research projects; RCT TFP-A; TFP-A for group; STIPO-A and IPO-A; disseminate the model through writing (individual, group, collaborative) and training.
Participate to the ISTFP conference (one panel and one workshop)
ETHICS COMMITTEE
Chair(s)
Frank Denning (UK)
Members
Ivan Arango (Mexico)
Monica Carsky (USA)
Sergio Dazzi (Italy)
Petra Holler (Germany)
Mission
To provide ethics-based guidance to members of the ISTFP, the Executive Board and Committees.
To provide input and support, when requested, to individual members of the ISTFP on matters with an ethical dimension.
To oversee application of the Ethics Code of the ISTFP.
Initiatives for the year 2022
We have only just started our work, having been newly reformed as a committee.
So far, we have:
Begun to review the Ethics Code.
Written a draft contract for ISTFP supervisors to use with their trainees.
Offered our thoughts about the situation in Ukraine and have begun to consider the wider ethical issues this has raised.
INPATIENT TFP AND TFP APPLIED TO PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES COMMITTEE
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 2022
- To complete the book initiative “Implementing General Psychiatric Care for Personality Disorders with TFP principles”
- To foster initiatives such as: TFP for groups initiative and TFP for families
PUBLIC RELATIONS & COMMUNICATION COMMITTEE
Chair(s)
Mathieu Norton-Poulin (Canada); Veronica Steiner (Chile);
Members
Silvia Bernardi (Usa), Pepa Gonzalez (Spain); Theophilus Kok (China); Marike Steeman (Netherlands); 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 2022
1) Create an ISTFP google account: [email protected]
2) Create an ISTFP Hubspot account for the newsletters
3) Make two newsletters: one for a professionals (ISTFP members and non-members), one for the general public.
4) Recruit members from each local group to provide content for the newsletters (events, article, etc.)
5) Creation of a You tube channel that organize all the videos that already exist about TFP and our members. Making new videos the address the public misconceptions about TFP.
6) Creation of social network accounts (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn) as means of dissemination of TFP.
7) Building and applying a vast structure of search engine optimization for google so all our TFP websites rank in the first pages for searches like “Borderline treatment” or “Therapies for personality disorders”
