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7:30 - 8:30 A.M. — Registration |
8:30 - 10:00 A.M. — Working with Resistant, Unmotivated |
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and Mandated Clients |
Scott D. Miller, Ph.D. |
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A straightforward method for bypassing resistance and denial and
forming cooperative working relationships with your clients.
Scott Miller, Ph.D.
Co-founder, Institute for the Study
of Therapeutic Change. Author, The Heart and Soul of Change.
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10:15 - 11:45 A.M. — How to Improve Your Effectiveness |
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by 65% |
Scott D. Miller, Ph.D. |
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Participants learn specific techniques about how to gather and use
ongoing client feedback to dramatically improve treatment outcomes. |
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11:45 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. — Lunch (on your own) |
1:00 - 2:30 P.M. — Borderline and Histrionic Personality |
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Disorder |
Otto Kernberg, M.D. |
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This presentation summarizes the etiology, psychopathology, and
differential diagnosis of borderline and histrionic personality disorders,
together with a summary of the underlying theory integrating
biological and psychodynamic determinants of personality structure.
 Otto Kernberg, M.D.
Director, Personality Disorders
Institute, N.Y. Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division; Professor
of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Training
and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research.
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| 3:00 - 4:30 P.M. — Transference Focused Psychotherapy |
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(TFP) for Severe Personality
Disorder |
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Otto Kernberg, M.D. |
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This presentation summarizes a manualized, psychodynamic psychotherapy for borderline
patients developed at the Personality Disorder Institute of the Weill Cornell Medical College
over the past twenty years. |
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8:00 - 9:00 A.M. — Registration |
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| 9:00 - 10:30 A.M. — Emerging Triumphant from the Heart of
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Darkness: Imagery as the Key to Healing Traumatic Stress |
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Belleruth Naparstek, LISW, BCD |
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Combining her guided imagery expertise with 33 years of clinical
experience, psychotherapist and author Naparstek spells out how
and why imagery is the critical element in a whole variety of effective,
new PTSD techniques, and offers powerful demonstrations of its
amazing grace.
 Belleruth Naparstek, LISW, BCD
Diplomate in Clinical Social Work. Founding President and Board
Co-Chair, Health Journeys.
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10:45 - 12:15 P.M. — Lesson Learned the Hard Way: What to |
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Do and What Not to Do When Treating PTSD |
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Belleruth Naparstek, LISW, BCD |
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The true story of how “Franny”, a survivor of childhood abuse and a subsequent brutal
attack as an adult, got the help she needed to overcome her severe PTSD symptoms. Naparstek
takes her audience through all the twists and turns, ups and downs, of Franny’s rocky course
of treatment, arriving at the same conclusion that much of the epidemiological and
physiological research now points to.
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12:15 - 1:30 P.M. — Lunch (on your own) |
1:30 - 3:00 P.M. — The Effects of Trauma on the Self |
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Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. |
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This presentation explores the effects of childhood trauma on develoment of the self, and in relationships to others.
 Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine; Medical Director, Trauma Center, Boston, MA, Author, Psychological Trauma |
3:30 - 5:00 P.M. — The Aftermath of Terror
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Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. |
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This presentation teaches and demonstrates how to assess and slect optimal treatment for various trauma-based symptoms. |
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8:00 - 9:00 A.M. — Registration |
9:00 - 10:30 A.M.
— Treating Depression with Hypnosis: Key |
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Principles and Methods |
Michael Yapko, Ph.D. |
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Hypnosis has been shown to enhance cognitive-behavioral interventions.
In this presentation Dr. Yapko presents some of the ways hypnosis
can be used in the treatment of depression.
 Michael Yapko, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist.
Author
of ten books on strategic & brief therapies. Author, Treating Depression
with Hypnosis – Recipient of the Arthur Shapiro Award – best hypnosis
book of 2001, Society for Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis.
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10:45 A.M. - 12:15 P.M. — Watching it Work: Hypnosis in |
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Treating Depression |
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A clinical demonstration allowing the viewer to “be there” as an intervention is delivered
hypnotically to a complex co-morbidly depressed man.
Michael Yapko, Ph.D.
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12:15 - 1:15 P.M. — Lunch (on your own) |
1:15 - 2:45 P.M. — Early Trauma: Borderline Personality:
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The Challenge of Relationship |
John Briere, Ph.D. |
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This keynote suggests that early trauma can profoundly affect ones’
relationship to self and others, and that these effects are not as much
symptoms as attempts to survive and recover.
 John Briere, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of
Southern California, School of Medicine. Director, Psychological
Trauma Clinic, LA County, USC Medical Center.
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| 3:00 - 4:30 P.M. — Treating Trauma Activation |
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John Briere, Ph.D. |
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Triggered activation can result in dramatically inaccurate thoughts, feelings, perceptions,
and associated behaviors, that appear to emerge “out of the blue” as rage, impulsivity,
self-hatred, abandonment issues or dissociated behavior. The central role of the therapeutic
relationship in activating and resolving these activations is explored. |
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