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SUMMARY:What’s Gone Wrong with the American Mind and What We Clinicians Can Do About It  - Presented by Bryant Welch\, JD\, PHD\, ABPP [Class]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE \nOver the last decade the political climate in America has been especially perplexing for therapists and their patients alike. In this workshop\, Dr. Welch\, a highly trained psychotherapist and political advocate for mental health and social justice\, will describe in clinical terms just how and why so many minds are running amok. He will illustrate how minds are overtaxed and what needs to be done to refortify them so they can fill the many demanding tasks of participating in a democracy. \nDr. Welch’s written works on the topic\, based on his personal experience in Washington\, D.C.\, have been extremely prophetic as he has predicted since the early 2000’s the increasing deterioration of Americans’ psychological functioning in the political arena and their increasing vulnerability to authoritarian minds. More specifically\, he explains the psychological vulnerabilities the contemporary mind has to challenge its ability to form a solid reality sense; essential to uphold the demands a democracy place on its citizens. \nHe will show how and why the reality functioning has been undercut by social and political forces\, some of them by design and some not. He will also show how other shifts in the structure of our society are further disrupting our embattled minds. Finally\, drawing on many changes in the mental health community\, he will show how we can begin to reverse these corrosive forces. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES \n Upon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\nList three impacts current forms of political manipulation have on the American Mind.\nIdentify areas of the mind that are particularly vulnerable to political manipulation.\nList three reasons why political gaslighting has been so much more powerful in contemporary America.\nExplain the vulnerabilities of the mind in key areas in a way that will help attendees’ patients develop an ability to see through and resist the impact of political gaslighting.\nDescribe the relationship between trauma and political confusion.\nExplain three reasons why conspiracy theories and irrational political attitudes are the inevitable result of contemporary political manipulation.\nIdentify how eastern contemplative traditions can be helpful at the present time for strengthening the mind of patients and therapists alike.\n\n  \nCOURSE OUTLINE – 4 Hours \n9:00 to 10:15 am    \nDr. Welch will provide the dynamic model of the mind that has been so traumatized that people are now unable to form their own view of reality. \n10:15 to 11:00 am    \nIn this section\, Dr. Welch will describe what he calls the true battleground states in America; paranoia\, sexual perplexity\, and envy\, and illustrate how they are used to manipulate the mind and cause people to support candidates who do not have their best interest at heart and divide Americans from one another. \n11:00 to 11:15 am \nBreak \n11:15 am to 12:00 noon \nDr. Welch will show how critical professions and institutions that have historically supported the independent functioning of the mind have been themselves undermined and are now largely unable to fulfill their historical roles to help stabilize the American mind in its hour of crisis. \n12:00 noon to 1:00 pm \nDr. Welch will explain why\, despite these assaults on the mind\, there is great hope for the American mind\, especially given the increasing penetration of Eastern contemplative practices. \n  \nCOURSE CURRICULUM  \n\n\n\nThe program shows attendees how to apply the psychological concepts of reality testing\, regression\, paranoia\, envy\, and sexual perplexity to the instability in the American political world.\nThe knowledge participants gain will enhance their clinical work by helping them see that many of the psychological concepts they employ in assessing and treating the human mind in their practices are very powerful explanatory agents for the massive chaos currently confronting the American political realm.\nThe target audience is everyone who is working clinically in the mental health field. The concepts will be explained simply enough so that they will be accessible to participants who are beginners in the field\, as well as those with advanced knowledge.\nThe content is based on many materials and articles that have been peer reviewed and others that have been reviewed by leading legal\, political\, and psychological scholars. None of the content involves risk.\nThe clinical approach presented can be applied to all clients\, independent of cultural and role differences. Most importantly\, however\, it explains at length how primitive racist attitudes\, unconscious homophobic feeling states\, and misogyny have been used to manipulate the mind in the political arena.\n\n\n\n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$75 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $90 after \nNon-Members:  \n$100 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $115 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs and Psychologists; Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  \nCancellation must be received in writing by email: Full refund if canceled 48 hours prior to the event; $25 cancellation fee if canceled with less than 48 hours’ notice.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/whats-gone-wrong-with-the-american-mind-and-what-we-clinicians-can-do-about-it-presented-by-bryant-welch-jd-phd-abpp-class/
LOCATION:Embassy Suites San Rafael\, 101 McInnis Pkwy\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytically Informed Assessment of Character Pathology  Presented by Matthew Bennett\, PsyD [Seminar]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE \nThis presentation serves as the introduction to a series of planned seminars on specific personality styles. The seminar will review broadly psychodynamic perspectives on the diagnosis of personality organization and personality disorder.   The emphasis will be diagnosing personality organization as an aid to conducting psychotherapy.  Dr. Bennett will provide an overview of the psychodynamic sensibility in diagnosing personality disorder\, highlighting the clinical usefulness of identifying and describing patterns of handling affect\, defensive styles\, and perceiving interpersonal reality.  This discussion will include rationales for diagnosis (including cautions about the limits of diagnosis) and the importance of assuming certain “stances” in psychotherapy based on personality diagnosis.  Dr. Bennett will also review the traditional tripartite psychoanalytic rubric of organizing personality development into psychotic\, borderline\, and neurotic ranges of organization\, including the clinical implications for each.  The presentation will then include a more in-depth analysis of some of the more prominent personality styles\, including schizoid\, narcissistic\, histrionic\, and depressive styles. As a result\, the presentation will include emphasis on both level of personality organization and type. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES \n\n\n\nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to:\nDemonstrate working knowledge of characteristic defensive styles associated with commonly documented personality organizations\, as evidenced by a case role-play.\nIdentify four key features of psychotic\, characterological / borderline\, and neurotic / normal personality development in therapy populations.\nAnalyze key features of interpersonal behavior in such a way as to develop tentative hypotheses about underlying character organization through a sample case conceptualization.\nCreate a psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy case conceptualization based on identification of defensive styles\, as evidenced by sample case conceptualization practice.\n\n\n\nCOURSE OUTLINE \n8:30 am    \nRegistration \n9:00 am   \nIntroduction of presenter \n9:15 am    \nThe psychodynamic sensibility and underlying assumptions.  Functional vs. Trait based descriptions.  The role of symptoms and goals of treatment. \n10:00 am       \nCriteria for developmental health of the personality: mentalization\, ambivalence\, observing ego\, affect tolerance\, reality testing\, & mature vs. primitive defenses \n10:15-10:30   \nBreak \n10:30 am  \nPsychotic\, Borderline\, and Neurotic Levels of Personality Development \n11:00 am  \nSchizoid personalities \n12:00 pm     \nLunch Break \n1:00 pm    \nNarcissistic personalities \n2:00 pm \nHistrionic Personalities \n3:00 pm   \nDepressive Personalities \n4:00 pm \nEnd of Conference \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \n\n This presentation builds upon key competencies\, skill sets\, and knowledge bases associated with the literature of contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy\, including models of object relations\, mentalization\, self-psychology\, and principles of intersubjectivity. It builds upon graduate-level concepts and elaborates them into applied clinical methodologies directly relevant to psychodynamically informed psychotherapy.\nThis presentation directly informs the clinical praxis of applied psychotherapy. It includes a review of theoretical considerations as well as praxis considerations which directly inform treatment planning\, case conceptualization\, and the boundaries established in psychotherapy.\nThe content of this presentation represents intermediate level application of principles of psychodynamically informed psychotherapy. It presumes basic level knowledge of the assumptions and world-view inherent to several models of psychoanalytic psychotherapy (that is\, basic knowledge the principles of object relations\, self-psychology\, and related concepts).\nThe content of this presentation is comprehensively based in the established literature of contemporary psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy\, especially as it relates to personality theory and self-psychology. The concepts and methodologies described are characteristic of the broadly accepted principles and theoretical frames associated with this well-documented model of psychotherapy.  The inherent limitations of this content include the well-documented difficulties in establishing the empirical evidence of efficacy among competing models of psychotherapy\, which are complicated by competing assumptions about what represents desirable outcomes (e.g.\,behavior change vs. development of psychological capacities which may be difficult to measure).  The risks involved in this presented content include transient discomfort and emotional dislocation involved in addressing basic personality patterns which may be recognized as important parts of the selves of the participants.\nThis presentation will include a discussion of the cultural\, racial\, and gender-based manifestation of personality patterns\, and the way culture acts as a lens to the manifestation of underlying character structure. For example\, the discussion will include analysis of the complex reasons why certain personality traits appear associated with gender\, and the relationship between these observed character traits and the forces of socialization and culture.\n\n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$100 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $120 after \nNon-Members:  \n$130 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $150 after \nCEs: 6 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  \nCancellation must be received in writing by email: Full refund if canceled 48 hours prior to the event; $25 cancellation fee if canceled with less than 48 hours notice.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. \n 
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/psychoanalytically-informed-assessment-of-character-pathology-presented-by-matthew-bennett-psyd-seminar/
LOCATION:Embassy Suites San Rafael\, 101 McInnis Pkwy\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Healing the Cultural Outsider Wound in Psychotherapy  - Presented by Dennis Portnoy\, LMFT [CLASS]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE:  \nMany who seek psychotherapy were either born in the United States of parents from another culture\, or they arrived here as children. Surrounded by peers who look and speak differently\, they often have the added burden of parents relying on them to help navigate in a new country. Eager to “fit in” they become hyper-focused on conforming and achieving\, feeling tremendous pressure to go above and beyond what is expected. The very qualities that contribute to their success in the world often perpetuate their unhappiness and disconnection from themselves. \nThere are some consistent psychological dynamics regardless of the specific cultural background. In their early experience in school\, these clients are aware that they look\, sound and view the world differently than their peers. The cultural outsider wound stems from a profound sense of being “other” that often leaves one feeling shame and a sense of inferiority. Becoming adept at taking their cues for how to act by looking outside of themselves\, cultural outsiders mold their responses to fit other’s expectations. \nThrough lecture as well as dyad work\, this course will offer a deeper understanding into the unique survival strategies employed in an attempt to cope with the difficulties that arise from feeling different. There will be particular emphasis on how these clients define themselves and measure their self-worth. Participants will also learn a powerful intervention called “piercing the threat” designed to deconstruct an identity and sense of worth that revolves around performance\, how one is being perceived\, and their usefulness to others. \n  \n2. Source Material: \nAsendorpf\, J. B.\, & Motti-Stefanidi\, F. (2017). A longitudinal study of immigrants’ peer acceptance and rejection: Immigrant status\, immigrant composition of the classroom\, and acculturation. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology\, 23(4)\, 486–498 \nChandra\, R. (Mar 06\, 2017) The Shadow side to being an Asian American over-achiever: What our Asian parents didn’t teach us about life. Psychology Today Blog Psychologytoday.com/the-pacific-heart201703 \nGarcia Coll C & Magnuson K. (2014). “The psychological experience of immigration: a developmental perspective” in the New Immigrant and the American Family. Orozco M S & Qin-Hilliard\, Eds. (Mahwah\, NJ): Lawrence Erlbaum Associates\, Inc. \nCourtois\, C (2004). Understanding Complex Trauma\, Complex Reactions\, and Treatment Approaches. Psychotherapy: Theory\, Research\, Practice\, Training. 41\, (4). 412-425 \nIgoa\, C. (1995) The Inner World of the Immigrant Child. (Mahwah\, NJ): Lawrence Erlbaum Associates \nRobbins\, A. (2006) The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids. (Paris\, France) Hachette Books \n  \n3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to:\n1. Describe how to assist clients’ in accessing and affirming their intrinsic worth\n2. Explain the concept of core assumptions and how it differs from beliefs\n3. Apply the “piercing the threat” intervention for effectively working with outdated survival strategies\n4. Assess how the “outsider experience” shapes self-concept and sense of worth\n5. Utilize techniques that facilitate clients’ shift from an external to an internal orientation \n  \n4. COURSE OUTLINE – 3 HOURS: \n1. Introduction \ni. Who are Cultural Outsiders?   (15 minutes)\nii. Acculturation stress and contributions from psychology \n2. Survival Strategies (10 minutes) \ni. A self-organized around achievement\, usefulness and external validation.\nii. Focusing outwardly to ward off shame\, isolation and inadequacy.\n(Overly-accommodating\, self-deprecating\, hyper-vigilant\, the quest to fit in / conform).\niii. Two case examples\niv. Q and A (10 minutes) \n3.Therapeutic Goals \ni. Therapeutic focus (10 minutes)\nii. Shifting to an internal frame of reference/de-constructing the externally based self\niii. Connecting with and affirming intrinsic worth Experiential Activity – Journaling and Sharing in dyads (40 minutes)\niv. Discussion \nTen-minute break \n4. Addressing obstacles to affirming intrinsic worth (10 minutes) \ni. Working with the inner critic\nii. Aversion to discord and confusing self-referenced with selfishness\niii. Recognizing/challenging the primary markers of identity \n5. Working with outdated survival strategies \ni. Experiential activity – Journaling (30 minutes)\nii. Sharing- groups of three\niii. Piercing the Threat (30 minutes)\niv. Identifying and challenging core assumptions\nv. Distinguishing core assumptions from beliefs\nvi. Re-parenting the younger self (10 minutes) \n6. Wrap up -Q and A (15 minutes) \n  \n5. CRITERION 1.1 TO 1.3:\nThis program meets Criterion 1.1. \n  \n6. CONTENT CURRICULUM: \n\nDescribe how your program content will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology. The course teaches clinicians in-depth strategies for working therapeutically with clients.\nDescribe how your content is specifically relevant to psychological practice\, education\, or science. Central to this teaching is how clinicians can get right to the heart of how clients define themselves and measure their worth.\nDescribe your target audience and the instructional level of your content (introductory\, intermediate\, or advanced). Intermediate and advanced\nDescribe the accuracy\, utility\, and the empirical basis of the materials that you will present. What are the limitations of the content being taught and their most common risks? This presentation is intended to be an introduction to working therapeutically with cultural outsiders. Participants should not expect to exhaustively understand the topic\, nor should they expect to receive more than preliminary training.\nDescribe how your content reflects the appreciation of a diverse populations and how you intend to acknowledge and respect of the richness of cultural\, individual and role differences. The central focus of this course addresses diverse populations and their unique survival strategies for dealing with “being different” and “other”.\n\n  \nBio \nDennis Portnoy is a psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco for over 30 years. He is author of THE INTRINSIC SELF: How defining yourself and your worth by your achievements and usefulness is undermining your happiness and serenity. \nIn addition to publishing numerous articles\, Dennis has been conducting workshops and presentations for several decades. More information is available at dennisportnoy.com \n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$57 early registration 10 business days prior to class; $68 after \nNon-Members:  \n$75 early registration up to 10 business days prior to class\, $87 after \nCEs: 3 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  \nCancellation must be received in writing by email: Full refund if canceled 48 hours prior to the event; $25 cancellation fee if canceled with less than 48 hours’ notice.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/healing-the-cultural-outsider-wound-in-psychotherapy-presented-by-dennis-portnoy-lmft-class/
LOCATION:Embassy Suites San Rafael\, 101 McInnis Pkwy\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development
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