European Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Prague, Czech Republic September 10, 2003 Contact the Sponsor for further information: www.eabct.cz 1. Click on the Forms link 2. Click on the Pre-congress Workshops link 3. See full day workshop PW7 4. Fee is on ly 50 Euro Cognitive Therapy and Resilience 1 day / 6 hour Pre-Congress workshop Christine A. Padesky & Kathleen A. Mooney Presented at the 33rd annual Congress of the European Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Workshop Description: Resilient people have the ability to face and handle positive and negative life events. For clients who already possess resilience, we use cognitive therapy methods that encourage them to tap these qualities from within. For clients who have never learned to be resilient, many skills taught in cognitive therapy can help build resilience. We highlight three cognitive therapy transformations which to promote resilience: (1) applications of deconstructive and constructive language, (2) use of a talent search to uncover principles of resilience already in operation in the client's life, and (3) the evocation of symbolic syntheses such as client-generated metaphors and stories. This workshop emphasizes experiential learning exercises followed by group discussion. In addition, there will be brief didactic lectures and clinical demonstrations. OBJECTIVES: Identify qualities that contribute to and build resilience in yourself and your clients Link resilience and emotional health Compare the usefulness of constructive and deconstructive questions in guided discovery Practice methods to evoke client use of symbolic syntheses to enhance resilience Learn to conduct a talent search to uncover principles of resilience
Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy Boston, Massachusetts November 20, 2003 Contact the Sponsor for further information: www.AABT.org
	Cognitive Therapy for Recurrent Problems: New Possibilities & Creative Paths
Cognitive Therapy for Recurrent Problems: New Possibilities and Creative Paths A Full Day with Christine A. Padesky Thursday, November 20, 2003 / 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m Presented at the 37th Annual meeting of Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy Enhance your skills while learning exciting and efficient ways to help clients Earn 7 continuing education credits Persistent and recurrent client problems pose challenges for therapists. Can cognitive therapy be effective with recurrent depression, anxiety, relationship problems, personality disorders, and other chronic difficulties, even when standard protocols fail? This training is designed to help therapists practice conceptualization and treatment methods that help clients with recurrent problems (a) imagine new possibilities and (b) construct new underlying assumptions that serve as pathways to change. Dr. Padesky’s recent work suggests that clients with recurrent problems who have not benefited from standard therapy approaches are ideal for these innovative interventions. This training includes a clinical demonstration by Dr. Padesky illustrating each phase of this therapy process, including construction of creative behavioral experiments. Workshop participants learn and practice the following in structured exercises: (a) a collaborative case conceptualization format designed to reduce client shame and self-criticism, (b) methods to quickly identify old and new underlying assumptions, and (c) kinesthetic, imaginal, and symbolic methods to help clients envision new possibilities. These methods can be used with clients experiencing many types of recurrent problems, including personality disorders. In his foreword to her book Mind Over Mood, Dr. Aaron T. Beck, founder of cognitive therapy, wrote, “Dr. Padesky understands cognitive therapy better than almost any other therapist.” Join her in Boston for this unique opportunity to learn new strategies for generating possibilities and restoring hope in clients with recurrent problems. Morning Clinical demonstration/compassionate conceptualization of recurrent problems The blinding nature of recurrent problems Recurrent problems and the assumptions that maintain them Participant practice Compassionate conceptualization Identification of pivotal underlying assumptions Clinical demonstration/constructing possibilities: Listen to heart as well as mind Identify new possibilities and new underlying assumptions Imagery and the kinesthetics of a possibility focus Use of the therapy relationship to promote client creativity Afternoon The creative therapy relationship Language of creativity Use of stories, metaphors, icons and symbols Identify new possibilities and new underlying assumptions Participant practice Construct creative behavioral experiments Clinical demonstration/ Help the client construct creative behavioral experiments Link experimental outcomes and possibilities Debrief experiments with a possibility focus The challenges of change Tolerate ambiguity and doubt: Give change a chance Maintenance of change Therapist beliefs and recurrent problems Objectives: Construct a collaborative case conceptualization in a format designed to reduce self-criticism Engage the creativity of clients with recurrent problems; Identify pivotal underlying assumptions and behavioral strategies linked to new possibilities Employ metaphors, icons, and symbols more effectively to engage the experiential mind Observe processes that can lead to more creative behavioral experiments Recommended Reading: Mooney, K. A., & Padesky, C. A. (2000). Applying client creativity to recurrent problems: Constructing possibilities and tolerating doubt. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly, 14, 149-161.

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