BT10 Workshop 39 - Brief Therapy for the Treatment of Anxious Children - Lynn Lyons, LICSW
Anxious children, and often their parents, engage in predictable cognitive processes and coping strategies that create a cycle of avoidance, social isolation, and depression. This workshop will identify these common patterns, and focus on the development of interventions that help shift the anxious family toward flexibility, creativity, and the tolerance of uncertainty.
BT10 Workshop 40 - Cognitive-Behavioral Techniques with Couples - Frank M. Dattilio, PhD, ABPP
This workshop focuses on the specific use of cognitive-behavioral strategies as an adjunct to the many treatment modalities of couples therapy. It offers a basic overview of the theories of cognitive-behavioral therapy, particularly as it applies to couples. Participants will learn first-hand techniques and strategies for working with difficult couples and how to integrate these strategies with their respective modes of treatment. The presentation is followed by a videotape that demonstrates the implementation of techniques and interventions.
BT10 Workshop 41 - Competency Based Brief Therapy - John Weakland and Richard Fisch at Work - Wendel Ray, PhD
John Weakland and Richard Fisch’s MRI brief therapy is among the most influential models of practice in use today. Original writings and clinical recordings will be used to outline Weakland and Fisch’s contributions to interactional theory and therapy. MRI Brief Therapy conceptual framework and clinical techniques for competency based brief therapy will be demonstrated.
BT10 Workshop 42 - Single-Session Psychotherapy: Enhancing One-Meeting Potentials - Michael Hoyt, PhD
Many therapies involve brief lengths of treatment. A structure will be presented for organizing the tasks and skills involved in different phases (pre, early, middle, late, and follow-through) of therapy. Numerous case examples, including video, will illustrate brief therapy techniques both in initial sessions and in the course of longer treatments.
BT10 Workshop 43 - The Keys to Connecting with Clients: The First Five Minutes - Dan Short, PhD
Whether the client returns for a second appointment depends on the strength of connection made during the earliest moments of therapy. In this workshop, you’ll learn to recognize subtle clues that reveal how a client needs to be treated in order to feel comfortable, understood, and satisfied. This is how therapy is individualized and how to reach clients at their deepest area of need. Participants will also receive an instrument that indicates clients’ most and least helpful therapy experiences.
When people feel “stuck,” they often describe it metaphorically—being “blocked,” “in quicksand up to my neck,” “beating my head against a wall,” “in the pit of despair,” etc. Andrew T. Austin (author of The Rainbow Machine) has discovered how metaphors can be used to clarify and resolve the problem.
BT10 Workshop 45 - Using Hypnosis with Children and Their Parents - Lynn Lyons, LICSW
Hypnosis harnesses the powerful imaginations of children to interrupt problematic cognitive and physical patterns. Participants will learn how to use hypnotic techniques to manage common childhood problems, such as phobias, sleep issues, school/test anxiety, and fear of medical treatment. How to include parents as subjects and hypnosis “assistants” will be addressed.
BT10 Workshop 46 - The Initiator-Inquirer Process: Not a Communication Technique - Ellyn Bader, PhD
Couples come to therapy and say “we can’t communicate.” They want your help with communication. Yet effective communication often reveals trauma, accumulated resentment, narcissism or anxiety about intimacy. Resolution requires internal self development that may be resisted by one or both partners. This advanced workshop will use video and clinical transcripts to demonstrate the intricacies of resolving predictable communication breakdowns and supporting development.
BT10 Workshop 47 - Transforming Survival Strategies - Robert Dilts
A key issue in brief therapy involves clients’ regression into survival strategies. Survival strategies are activated by a perceived threat to our physical or psychological survival, and include: fight (attack), flight (escape), freeze (paralysis) or surrender (submit). Updating survival strategies involves reviewing key life situations and bringing new resources into these experiences at several levels.
BT10 Workshop 48 - Interaction Focused Therapy - Wendel Ray, PhD
Knowledge of Interaction Focused Therapy (IFT) equips the therapist with skill in immediately understanding problematic behavior. Derived from the Communication Theory of Don Jackson, Gregory Bateson and colleagues, and effective with the widest range of problems, basic premises of this evidence-based approach will be taught, with emphasis on specific strategies for promoting change.