I Offer Webinars To Help Family Physicians Learn Psychotherapy From Beginners to Advanced

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Beyond Prescribing: How to Shift from Thinking Like a Doctor to Thinking Like a Psychotherapist

Interested in enhancing your ability to create case formulations when conducting mental health assessments within your community practice? Eager to feel more confident in making sense of confusing or unfamiliar territory within patient encounters when providing mental health care? Not sure where to start? Consider attending this free, live webinar where these questions will be addressed.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this webinar you will learn the following:

Contrast the differences between case formulation from a medical model of mental health care and a psychotherapeutic perspective
Introduce the foundational domains of knowledge essential to developing the capability of formulating cases from a psychotherapeutic lens
Review limitations of the medical model of mental health
Explore the evolving landscape of psychotherapy, current trends and common factors underlying evidence-based models of treatment
Recommended resources for further learning

Making Sense of The "Difficult" Patient

Have you ever felt overwhelmed, confused, or unsettled by a patient interaction? Or maybe there’s that certain patient that you dread seeing pop up in your schedule? Someone you aren’t sure what to do with other than pull your hair out? Consider attending this free, live webinar where these common scenarios will be explored.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this webinar you will learn the following:

Defining the “difficult” patient or “difficult” patient encounter
Frameworks to identify the component parts and underlying factors in challenging clinical encounters
Transference and countertransference while working in the window of tolerance
Attachment related phenomena, traumatic enactments, triggers, object relations, personality organization, & the surreptitious influence of implicit, procedural memory
Boundaries, physician self-care, dyadic affect regulation & the treatment frame as practical pathways to navigating challenging encounters & patterns within the physician-patient relationship

Addiction: A Disorder of Attachment & The Brain

Feeling frustrated or burnt out with your patients living with addiction? Boggled by the seeming contradiction between their words and actions? Or perhaps feeling at a loss and remiss that you wish you could do something more to help them out of their misery? Consider attending this free, live webinar where these questions will be addressed.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this webinar you will learn the following:

Common myths & misconceptions in addiction
Addiction as a disorder of development vis a vis affect regulation, attachment, and the brain
The role of the autonomic nervous system, affective neuroscience, and interpersonal neurobiology
Neurobiology of addiction, trauma, core emotion, and substance exposure
An integrated and sequenced model of treatment

We All Get Defensive; Psychological Defenses in Patients & Us

Do some people or situations just rub you the wrong way? Seem to find yourself in recurring dissatisfying patterns with people or patients in your life? Ever had to deal with a difficult patient or colleague who seemed impossible to get through to? If you’d like to learn an introduction to psychological defenses as a way to help better understand the role that yourself and others can play during times of strained relating, consider attending this free, live webinar where all of the questions above will be explored.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this webinar you will learn the following:

Why do we have defenses?
Brief overview of common psychological defenses
Review clinical vignettes illustrating common examples of defenses
What to do and what not to do when working with defenses
The importance of consultation and supervision in maintaining the therapist’s safe and effective use of self in therapy