Training Workshop Information

Workshop on Treatment Planning

Trainer: Ralph Mora, Ph.D. MSS, CAIA. (Professor, University of Maryland, Asia division, U.S.A)

This workshop will provide a format for determining treatment. Initially, the factors and processes involved will be presented. These will focus on the patient’s biopsychosocial aspects. Additionally, the presenting issue(s) will need to be assessed as either an arrest in development or a delay in development. Methods for garnering such information will be presented. These measures will include various history gathering, cognitive and emotional techniques that can help place the issues within the context of the patient’s life. Understanding and planning for competing goals will also be discussed. Additionally, in keeping with the aim of this conference on “will”, the patient’s accessibility for change will be discussed and incorporated into the treatment plan.

The follow up will include three case presentations that participants will use within a small group format for the development of treatment plan that they will present to the workshop for critique and analysis. In effect, this workshop will provide a theoretical overview of treatment planning, a review of specific techniques and measures used for assessing the characteristics of the issues at hand given the patient’s strengths and weaknesses and an opportunity to join together in practice exercises that can assist in gaining confidence and honing skills in treatment planning.

Language: English  (with interpreter for Japanese)

Capacity: 15 people

"Where the Wild Things Are": Psychotherapy with Adolescents

Trainer: Seth Aronson, Psy.D. (Faculty, William Alanson White Institute, U.S.A)

The developmental tasks of this period which include formation of identity, incorporation of bodily changes into self concept, the growth of intimacy and separation are all evident in psychotherapeutic work with adolescents.Writers such as Anna Freud, Peter Blos, Erikson as well as contemporary Kleinians , Winnicott and Loewald  have all contributed to our understanding of the tasks of therapy with this population. In this workshop, we will explore how these tasks are facilitated through the therapeutic process ,as well as the transference-countertransference  and its role in helping to facilitate growth.
 
Language: English  (with interpreter for Japanese)