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August 19, 2011 - 1:46 pm

University of Iowa Psychotherapy Institute

Training Courses

Don’t Forget- ISIPT 5th International Conference

Iowa City, June 11-15, 2013

 

Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples and Families

August 24 and 25, 2012
Iowa City, Iowa

Volker Thomas, PhD
University of Iowa

More Information and Registration Here

Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Groups (IPT)

Level A Certified Training

November 30 and December 1, 2012
Iowa City, Iowa

Denise Wilfley, PhD
Washington University, St. Louis

More Information and Registration Here

Lodging and Transportation Information

There are a number of hotels in the Iowa City/Coralville area which are a short distance from the conference site. Information about accommodations is available here.  The Sheraton Hotel, Hotel Vetro, and The Iowa House Hotel are within walking distance to the conference.  Most hotels in Coralville are within a ten minute drive.  The nearest airport is the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids (about 15 minutes from Iowa City).

Information about activities and sights in beautiful Iowa City can be found here; information about the Iowa city area can be found here.

 

 

 
Functional Analytic Psychotherapy

April 27, 2012    10 AM to 5 PM
April 28, 2012        9AM to 4 PM

12 contact hours or 1.2 General CEU credits

Training conducted by Mavis Tsai Ph.D.; Robert Kohlenberg Ph.D., ABPP.
Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) is a “here and now” therapy that focuses on the subtle ways clients’ daily life problems occur in the therapy session.  FAP uses awareness, courage, love and behaviorism in the therapist-client relationship to produce significant change, and can be applied to a wide range of clinical problems, including: depression, anxiety, intimacy difficulties, personality disorders, problems of the self, substance abuse, OCD, and couples work. Considered one of the new generation innovative Cognitive Behavior Therapies identified as “Third Wave”,  FAP is integrative, and provides a conceptual and practical framework that will help super-charge your next therapy session. The workshop will include videotaped therapy sessions, experiential exercises, demonstrations and handouts that can be used with clients.

What Will You Learn?
–Five strategies and concrete exercises to increase connection and intensity in your therapeutic interventions.
–How to use meditation and mindfulness in FAP.
–How to best use yourself as an instrument of change.
–Functional analysis to help you decide the most effective techniques for clients with diverse histories and issues.
–When commonly used interventions can be inadvertently counter-therapeutic.
–How to make the hidden meanings of your clients’ communications more visible.
–Innovations in therapeutic rationales and treatment planning that lead you to go beyond clients’ symptoms into their purpose and passion for living.

How Can FAP Enhance Your Clinical Work?
FAP creates deep, meaningful and healing therapeutic relationships. The behavioral underpinnings of FAP facilitate its use with empirically supported approaches such as Cognitive Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and also embrace techniques from diverse approaches such as psychoanalysis, tantric therapy and hypnotherapy.

FAP, however, is not a typical eclectic approach entailing “doing whatever works.”  All FAP interventions are informed by clearly stated and understandable behavioral principles. FAP calls for therapeutic stances and techniques that no single therapeutic orientation would predict and is intended to help answer the perennial and elusive key question:  ”What is the theoretically sound basis for selecting the technique that is most appropriate for a particular client at a certain time?”

Mavis Tsai, Ph.D., co-originator of FAP, is a clinical psychologist in independent practice. She is also Director of the FAP Specialty Clinic within the Psychological Services and Training Center at the University of Washington, where she is involved in teaching, supervision and research on treatment development. Her publications and presentations include work on healing Posttraumatic stress disorder interpersonal trauma with FAP, disorders of the self, power issues in marital therapy, incorporating Eastern wisdom into psychotherapy, racism and minority groups, teaching youth to be peace activists, and women’s empowerment via reclaiming purpose and passion. She is on the Fulbright Senior Specialists Roster, has presented ‘‘Master Clinician’’ sessions at the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapy, and has led numerous workshops nationally and internationally. She is interested in behaviorally informed multi-modal approaches to healing and growth that integrate mind, body, emotions and spirit.

Robert J. Kohlenberg, Ph.D., ABPP, co-originator of FAP, is a professor of psychology at the University of Washington, where he held the position of Director of Clinical Training from 1997 to 2004. The Washington State Psychological Association honored him with a Distinguished Psychologist Award in 1999. He is on the Fulbright Senior Specialists Roster, and has presented ‘‘Master Clinician’’ and ‘‘World Round’’ sessions at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. He has presented FAP workshops both in the United States and internationally, and has published papers on migraine, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, intimacy of the therapeutic relationship, and a FAP approach to understanding the self. He has attained research grants for FAP treatment development, and his current interests are identifying the elements of effective psychotherapy, the integration of psychotherapies, and the treatment of co-morbidity.

FAP Course

 

Location: The conference will be held in the University of Iowa Conference Center, Old Capitol Town Center, 201 S. Clinton St., Iowa City, IA. Directions to the Center can be found at: http://www.oldcapitoltowncenter.com/directions.htm. The Capitol Street parking ramp adjoins the Old Capitol Town Center and charges $.75 per hour.

 

Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples and Families

August 24, 2012     10 AM to 5 PM
August 25, 2012     9 AM to 4 PM

Iowa City, Iowa

Volker Thomas, PhD
University of Iowa

This two day course will focus on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), an evidence-based highly research approach to working with couples and families based on Attachment Theory.  EFT helps couples and families identify attachment needs and wounds, experience them in the context of negative interactional cycles, and learn to better regulate their emotions within an interpersonal relational context.  Course participants learn the principles of EFT interventions and their change mechanisms through didactic materials, roles plays, and DVDs of actually therapy sessions. 

12 contact hours or 1.2 General CEU credits

Training conducted by Dr. Volker Thomas

Volker Thomas, PhD, LMFT, is the Coordinator of the doctoral Couple and Family Therapy Program in the College of Education at the University of Iowa.  Originally from Germany, he received his PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Minnesota in 1990.  After 3 years at the University of Iowa, Dr. Thomas directed the doctoral Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Purdue University for 18 years before returning to Iowa in the fall of 2011.  Dr. Thomas’s research and clinical interests include multicultural issues in experiential couple therapy, therapy with disadvantaged families and children at-risk, and community-based family interventions.

EFT Course

 Location: The conference will be held in the University of Iowa Conference Center, Old Capitol Town Center, 201 S. Clinton St., Iowa City, IA. Directions to the Center can be found at: http://www.oldcapitoltowncenter.com/directions.htm. The Capitol Street parking ramp adjoins the Old Capitol Town Center and charges $.75 per hour.

 

Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Groups

November 30, 2012   10 AM to 5 PM
December 1, 2012   9 AM to 4 PM
Iowa City, Iowa

Denise Wilfley, PhD
Washington University, St. Louis

This two day course will focus on basic training in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for Groups.  General principles of IPT will be covered in didactic and small group settings.  This course qualifies participants for Level A (Basic) training in IPT. 

12 contact hours or 1.2 General CEU credits

Training conducted by Dr. Denise Wilfley

Denise Wilfley, PhD, is a Professor in the Washington University Department of Psychiatry.  She is an expert in IPT for groups as well as in eating disorders.  She has authored a widely used textbook entitled “Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Group.”  This text is recommended reading prior to the course.

IPT Registration

 

 

Location: The conference will be held in the University of Iowa Conference Center, Old Capitol Town Center, 201 S. Clinton St., Iowa City, IA. Directions to the Center can be found at: http://www.oldcapitoltowncenter.com/directions.htm. The Capitol Street parking ramp adjoins the Old Capitol Town Center and charges $.75 per hour.