Clinical Practice Enrichment Series
Continuing Education Workshops For Mental Heath Professionals
PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS: Each workshop is offered for 3 CE CREDITS.
Dr. Wright is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.
Philadelphia Workshops 2019
- Can Positivity in Psychotherapy be Psychodynamic?
Friday, May 3, 2019
9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Workshop Presenter: Richard F. Summers, M.D.
- Treating Chronically Suicidal Patients: Theory, Practice and Therapist Self-Care*
Friday, May 3, 2019
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Workshop Presenter: Victor Welzant, PsyD.
*This program meets the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology requirements for 1 hour continuing education credit in the assessment, treatment, and management of suicide risks as well as 2 additional hours of general CE credits.
Workshops will be held at Trinity Memorial Church. For directions and parking, see the Directions page.
Can Positivity in Psychotherapy be Psychodynamic?
Program Description:
This workshop focuses on the integration of positive psychology principles and techniques with psychodynamic psychotherapy. Attention to positive emotion, along with the traditional therapy focus on negative emotion and painful experience, enhances the effectiveness of psychotherapy, yet is rarely the subject of attention and discussion. Using didactic presentation, clinical material and actual patient video clips, the workshop will explore enhancement of positive emotion, character strengths, change strategies and resilience in dynamic psychotherapy and the complex interweaving of positive and negative affect that characterizes much clinical work.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Interpret the interweaving of positive and negative affect in their patients’ experiences;
- Identify their patients’ positive experiences and employ techniques to enhance positivity when indicated;
- Describe the potential value and pitfalls in working with positive affect in psychodynamic therapy.
Treating Chronically Suicidal Patients: Theory, Practice and Therapist Self-Care
Program Description:
Suicidal thoughts and behavior are often an intense expression of transient pain and suffering. Suicide may also be an ever-present part of our patient’s daily lives. Working with “chronically suicidal” patients demands responding to acute moments of risk, as well as understanding the dynamic meaning of suicide. In this presentation, Dr. Welzant will facilitate a discussion about working with chronically suicidal patients. By blending contemporary theory along with in-depth clinical case examples, he will help explicate the clinical skills required for both creating a sufficient holding environment, and also facilitating the clinical engagement required to understand and process chronic suicidality. Dr. Welzant will share the challenges of working with this population, and ways of tolerating the anxiety that chronic suicidality may evoke in clinicians. Transference and countertransference themes will be utilized to highlight the highly relational aspects of suicidal preoccupation. The role of consultation and supervision in the therapy process will be addressed.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
- Identify symptoms and patterns of chronically suicidal patients;
- Explain three methods of addressing chronic suicidality in therapy;
- Discuss three strategies for the therapist for tolerating anxiety and maintaining self-care.
Registration Fees
- One Workshop - $95 ($85 Early Registration by 4/3/2019*)
- Both Workshops - $190 ($170 Early Registration by 4/3/2019*)
*Postmarked or registered online by April 3, 2019 at 11:59 p.m.
Registration Options
Online - Register online here.
By Mail - Download a printable registration form.
On site - Cash, Exact Change, Check. No Credit Cards Accepted.
MAIL-IN REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 26, 2019
ONLINE REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 1, 2019 at 11:59 p.m.
See the Registration Page for more information.