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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 |
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Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy
Boston, Massachusetts
November 20, 2003
Contact the Sponsor for further information: www.AABT.org
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Cognitive
Therapy for Recurrent Problems: New Possibilities
& Creative Paths
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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
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| Earn 7 continuing education credits
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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
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| Engage the creativity of clients with recurrent problems;
Identify pivotal underlying assumptions and behavioral strategies linked to new
possibilities
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| Employ metaphors, icons, and symbols more effectively to engage the
experiential mind
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| Observe processes that can lead to more creative behavioral
experiments
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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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