About this Event
Saturday 11th May 2024 10:00 am to 16:30 pm
Sunday 12th May 2024 10:00 am to 16:30 pm
All of our patients that present themselves at the Initial Interview suffer from anxiety. Therefore it is crucial that each therapist is capable to correctly assess a patient´s anxiety. A complete and correct assessment of a patient´s anxiety gives the therapist clues about 1) the degree to which a patient is capable of regulating his anxiety for his/her own benefit, 2) nature and degree of a patient´s ego-adaptive capacity and 3) degree of a patient´s superego pathology.
In our clinical work, we make some common mistakes in the assessment of anxiety manifestations. Some examples are incomplete assessment of the patient´s specific pattern of anxiety manifestations, overestimating the patient’s capacity to regulate his/her anxiety, underestimation of the intensity of the patient’s anxiety. Based on incorrect assessment, the road to the patient´s unconscious may be taken too hastily, resulting in the therapy becoming stuck, or – worse – in further damaging the patient.
This workshop has the following aims:
1 Provide an overview of the key mechanisms involved in the neurobiological regulation of anxiety.
2 Complete assessment of the patient´s specific pattern of anxiety manifestations
3 Identifying common mistakes in the assessment of anxiety manifestations
4 Develop skills and confidence to help patients adequately regulate their anxiety
This workshop is orientated to ISTDP therapists who have completed or are in the process of completing a core training. It is also orientated to colleagues from different therapeutic orientations who would like to obtain a comprehensive understanding of their patients´ anxiety manifestations.
The workshop will use video recordings and clinical vignettes of real therapies as well as role-plays with attendees. This will be an interactive workshop and all participants will be expected to participate actively by ‘role playing patient and therapist’. If an attendee wishes to, he/she can bring a video recording of a case for this to be supervised. A full form and transcript of the case will be emailed to the facilitators a week prior to the workshop.
Key Texts:
ten Have-de Labije, J. (1999) Maintaining Davanloo’s Discovery for Uncovering the Unconscious: an attempt at formulating operational definitions of the dependent variables. Part I and II. Ad Hoc Bulletin of STDP, Practice and Theory 3, 1, 4 - 21
ten Have-de Labije, J. (Editor) (2001) Red and Green Traffic Lights on Davanloo’s Road to the Unconscious, Part I in The Working Alliance in ISTDP: whose intrapsychic crisis? VKDP, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ten Have-de Labije, J. (2006). When patients enter with anxiety on the forefront Ad Hoc Bulletin of Short-Term dynamic Psychotherapy, Practice and Theory 2006, 10, 1 ADD
ten Have-de Labije, J. & Neborsky, R. (2012). Mastering Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Roadmap to the Unconscious
ten Have-de Labije, J. (2020). Stumble, fall and get up again on the road to the Unconscious. Practical Exercises for the IS`TDP therapist.
Speaker
Josette ten Have-de Labije, -psychotherapist and clinical psychologist, studied at the universities of Groningen and Amsterdam (the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research). She started her professional career in 1972 at the department for Neuro and Psychophysiology of the Free University of Brussels (Belgium). Thereafter she has worked in the Netherlands at a public mental health center for ambulant (non-residential) patients as coordinator of the Behavior Therapy Department and member of the Diagnostic Staff. Since 1990 she has been working in private practice.
As a qualified psychotherapist and clinical psychologist, she was trained as cognitive-behavior therapist (individual and group setting), Couples therapist, therapist for psychodynamic individual and group psychotherapy, therapist for Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy From 1989 - 1992 she was member of the Dutch ISTDP core-group, which was trained and supervised by Professor Dr H. Davanloo.
As supervisor and trainer of the Dutch Association for Cognitive and Behavior therapy she has given supervision and post-graduate courses in behavior therapy at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam and several post-doctorate courses and workshops.
As supervisor and trainer of ISTDP she has given supervision, several post-doctorate courses and workshops in The Netherlands. Next to that she has given/ gives workshops, training and supervision on ISTDP in the USA, Canada, South Africa, China, England, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Italy.
She has organized several national and international conferences on Behavior Therapy, on Cancer Treatment and Mental Health, and on ISTDP.
Board Memberships
She has been Board member of the International Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Association (IEDTA). She is editor in chief of the Ad Hoc Bulletin for STDP: Practice and Theory. She has published several books and articles.
Teaching Assistant
Dr Javier Malda Castillo is a Clinical Psychologist and lead of a tertiary Psychotherapy & Personality Disorder Department in the NHS. He is the founder and director of ISTDP-North, an accredited Intensive-Short Term Dynamic (ISTDP) psychotherapist with the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA). He is also a Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) supervisor accredited by the Anna Freud Center, a group analytic practitioner accredited by the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) and a psychodynamic psychotherapist trained in the Tavistock individual psychotherapy program. He has been training and learning from Josette for the past 3 years and continues to be in an ongoing advanced supervision group with her in Berlin.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Friends' Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, United Kingdom
GBP 220.00 to GBP 260.00
