Psychodiagnosing and Treating Anxiety Disorders with ISTDP - Allan Abbass

Anxiety Disorders are the most common mental illness comprised of a spectrum from mild to severe and incapacitating. Commonly the outcropping of unresolved attachment trauma, anxiety symptoms can be present as social anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and post traumatic stress disorder among others. Typically more than one of these diagnoses are present at the same time, as is a diagnosis of personality disorders, somatic symptom disorders and other conditions, such as depression and addiction.

Because ISTDP works at the level of changing unconscious emotional and behavioural patterns, it can be applied across the spectrum of anxiety disorders. In addition, these anxiety disorders can fall across the two spectra of patients with psychoneurotic disorders, and patient with fragile character structure. Hence, in order to treat the spectrum of anxiety disorders, the clinician must understand the psychodiagnostic and treatment requirements of these different patient categories.

In this course, we will cover the psychodiagnostic and treatment ingredients that can be beneficial in a relatively short treatment course for patients with the spectrum of anxiety disorders.

This course is suitable for all mental health professionals, physicians, nurse practitioners and other health professionals.

This immersion will be held online only.

Reduced rates are available for group registrations and those in certain lower income countries. Email for details.

Because the course will be held online, it is open to the following groups of healthcare professionals and therapists : 1) those who are in an ISTDP or EDT Core training or supervision, 2) those who have previously completed an ISTDP/EDT Core training program, 3) ISTDP/EDT Trainers, 4) Colleagues of these 3 groups who will attend the immersion while physically being present in the same room, and 5) those who are part of any ISTDP/EDT Societies with signed confidentiality agreements. This is all to ensure confidentiality of case materials that will be reviewed and discussed.

This training is exclusively for licensed mental health and registered health professionals, including Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors, as well as Physicians, Nurses, Physical Therapists, etc. If you are not a mental health or health professional, you may not attend due to the protection of patient confidentiality. Students and trainees pursuing licensure or registration as a mental health or health professional under supervision are welcome. The course content level is Intermediate level.

16.5 Continuing Education credits will be available for this event for an additional $50 (plus eventbrite transaction fees). Failure to log in/out or attend the course in its entirety will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

CE Certificates are only available for those who pay the additional CE add-on fee through Eventbrite.

Once the course is completed and attendance confirmed, an evaluation will be sent to you via email from Karen Newell at [email protected]. Please contact her with any questions about CEs.

CUE Management Solutions, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CUE Management Solutions, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CUE Management Solutions, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0242.

Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.

Participants will be able to:

1. Describe the development of Short-Term Therapies

2. Identify the ISTDP Metapsychology

3. List the corners of the Triangle of Conflict

4. List the corners of the Triangle of Person

5. Describe Complex Transference Feelings (CTF)

6. Describe the Unconscious Therapeutic Alliance (UTA)

7. Describe the Types and Manifestations of Resistance

8. Explain the main interventions of Pressure, Bracing, Clarification, and Challenge to resistances

9. Describe the ISTDP Psychodiagnostic Evaluation

10. Describe Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria.

11. Describe the Application of ISTDP for Patients with Anxiety Disorders

12. Describe the impact on Technique for Patients with Anxiety Disorders

Feedback from former participants:

"Being able to see the videos along with his live commentary and follow-up questions made the theory very accessible and easy to follow."

"Dr. Abbass provided so many fabulous and practical cases and examples!"

Allan Abbass, MD, is a psychiatrist, teacher, and researcher. He is a professor of psychiatry and psychology and the founding director of the Centre for Emotions and Health at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. He is one of the foremost psychotherapy teachers and researchers in the world, and is the author of "Reaching Through Resistance" and "Hidden From View."

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