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)
Emanuele Preti (Italy)
Members
Emanuele Preti, Biberdzic, Victor Blüml, Anna Buchheim, John Clarkin, Chiara De Panfilis, Rossella Di Pierro, Stephan Doering, Karin Ensink, Eric Fertuck, Andrea Fontana, Susanne Hörz-Sagstetter, Maya Krischer, Maria Jesus Rufat
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
4) Adolescence and developmental research
Initiatives for the year 2023
1) Generation of a general research plan for conducting randomized-clinical trials (RCT) of TFP.
2) Consultation with potential sites for the conduction of RCTs of TFP.
3) Mapping research expertise within the ISTFP
4) Reviewing empirical evidence on TFP and the object relations model of personality pathology
5) Updating of an annotated bibliography of research in the ISTFP
TRAINING & EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Chair(s)
Luis Valenciano (ES)
Irene Sarno (IT)
Chair Subcommittee on Supervision: Eve Caligor (USA)
Members
Marion Braun (GR); Peter Bucheim; Eve Caligor (USA); Sergio Dazzi (IT); Stephan Doering (AU); Diana Diamond (USA); Frank Denning (UK); Nel Draijer (NL)); Otto Kernberg (USA); Mathias Lohmer (GR); Philipp Martius (GR); 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 2023
- • 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.
- • Organizing therapist exams for countries without a local TFP organization; and organizing Trainer-supervisor exams.
- • 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 the Bi-Annual ISTFP Supervisors’ Meeting October 6-7, 2023, Milan
ADOLESCENTS COMMITTEE
Chair(s)
Lina Normandin, (Canada)
Marko Biberdzic (Australia)
Members
Alan Weiner (USA), Karin Ensink (Canada), Maya Krischer (Germany) Gabrielle Kehr (Germany), Emanueli Preti (Italy), Irene Sarno (Italy), Teressa Ribalta (Spain), Brenda Tarragona Medina (Spain), Clarissa Laczkovics (Austria),
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 2023
Validation of two research instruments: STIPO-A and LPODq (Level of personality organization and development questionnaire)
Collaborative work between sites (validation of the two instruments IPO-A and LPODq) and writing special issue on TFP-A (edited book)
Collaboration with the research committee (Maya Krischer, Karin Ensink, Marko Biberdzic, Emanuele Preti) and ethic committees (Alan Weiner and Teresa Ribalta)
Participation at the Supervision Working Group leaded by Eve Caligor (Lina Normandin, Gabrielle Kehr, Brenda Tarragona Medina and Irene Sarno)
ETHICS COMMITTEE
Chair(s)
Frank Denning (UK)
Members
Sergio Darzi, 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 2023
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.
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); 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 2023
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”
This page updated 6 May 2022.