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Critical Issues in Psychotherapy, Volume 4 - MP3

Critical Issues in Psychotherapy

12 CEs

This progam includes the following tests:

VOLUME IV: Critical Issues in Psychotherapy (MP3)

OVERALL DESCRIPTION

This volume focuses on the topic of relationships--the intense relationship of patient-therapist; the marital relationship; children and parent loss; failures in and loss of relationships in the suicidal patient; the interface between mental health and the law; and the kind of help offered by the disaster mental health worker in a very brief but no less important relationship.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Gain new understanding for treating a variety of relationships from a number of theoretical perspectives.

CURRICULUM SUMMARY

1. Morris Eagle, Ph.D. --------- "Internalization and Projective Identification"
(author of RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS)

The listener will learn the meanings of these concepts and how these processes appear and are understood in treatment.

2. Frank Summers, Ph.D. --------- "Annihilation Anxiety"
(author of OBJECT RELATIONS THEORIES AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY: A COMPREHENSIVE TEXT)

The listener will learn about the treatment implications of these theories and how and why these ideas are so helpful in treating seriously disturbed patients. Many case examples are included.

3. Drs. Jill and David Scharff, ------------ "Object-Relations Focused Marital Treatment"
(co-authors of OBJECT RELATIONS COUPLES THERAPY)

Listeners will learn that a couple, from the point of view of the Scharffs, is a system of conscious and unconscious intrapsychic object relationships. Many case examples are presented.

4. Frank Pittman, M.D. ------------- "Infidelity" (author of PRIVATE LIES)

The listener will learn four patterns of infidelity, each of which must be approached differently. Dr Pittman has strong words of admonition for therapists about secrecy and honesty, how to limit the damage affairs do, and how to heal a relationship that has been hurt by infidelity.

5. Robert Galatzer-Levy, M.D. ------------- "Custody Evaluations"

No one suffers more or has more to lose from a divorce than the children involved. In helping to minimize the potential damage to these young people, there is no more crucial issue than awarding custody. Social workers are being called upon increasingly to render opinions in custody controversies, and Dr Galatzer-Levy provides a clear and sensible approach to doing ethical and professional custody evaluations.

6. David Phillips, DSW, BCD --------------- "Patient Abandonment"

Must the therapist continue to provide treatment once managed care funding runs out? What is our duty to the patient and what of our duties to ourselves. The listener will learn what is meant by "standard of care" and what the standard is in this situation.

7. Miriam Reitz, LCSW, BCD -------------- "Adoption"
(author, ADOPTION AND THE FAMILY SYSTEM)

Research indicates that adopted children are more likely to experience emotional and behavioral problems than their non-adopted peers. Here, the listener will learn how much of the problem should be attributed to family dynamics, how much to normal development, and how much to purely adoption factors.

8. Nancy Boyd Webb, DSW ---------------- "Bereavement in Children"
(author, HELPING BEREAVED CHILDREN) Transcript included

How much do toddlers understand when someone they know disappears or dies? How can we understand and help these children? The listener will hear Dr Webb lead us through assessing and treating grief and loss in childhood.

9. Rick Ostrander, Ed.D. ---------- "Adolescent Suicide"

Any therapist involved in direct patient care has a 1 in 5 chance of losing a patient to suicide during the course of his or her professional career. Psychotherapists who study suicidal behavior in young people have uncovered many clues that can help mental health professionals take appropriate action to prevent a suicide. The listener will learn to assess the prevent suicide in adolescents.

10. Nancy Osgood, Ph.D. ---------- "Elderly Suicide" (author of SUICIDE IN LATER LIFE)

The listener will learn to assess and identify early signs of suicide in the elderly.

11. John Weaver, LSW, ---------- "Disaster Mental Health"
(author, DISASTERS: MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS)

The listener will gain a beginning understanding of disaster mental health work, with many examples from actual disasters.

12. Jeffrey Mitchell, Ph.D., ---------- "Critical Incident Stress Debriefings"
(author, CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS DEBRIEFINGS)

The listener will hear an overview of this important method of decreasing the potential effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorders in emergency workers exposed to on-the -job traumas from the person who developed this nationally used method.