There are hundreds of psychotherapy modalities practised all over the world. Consequently, which primary considerations comprise Psychotherapy, and how it works (versus how well it works) are often-asked questions. In this webinar, Dr Joan Haliburn will attempt to answer those two questions by discussing psychodynamic psychotherapy processes, as viewed through the Conversational Model lens (aka Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy). Given that patients/clients come to psychotherapy with a wide range of problems and an even wider range of unique life histories and experiences, ideally psychotherapists need to tailor their therapy approach to their patient’s needs.  Notwithstanding such tailoring, there are some presentations that are amenable to commonality in approach. For example, trauma is prevalent in many life histories, therefore during the assessment we heed the client’s frailty, their readiness to form a therapeutic relationship, and their capacity to “work through” defences, plus their propensity to change. These (and other) factors influence how we adapt a general therapy to the client, for no two therapies are alike.

Dividing psychotherapy into notional phases is a process-oriented way of demarcating key therapeutic tasks that both client and therapist hold in awareness. Therefore, division into an Early Phase including Assessment; A Middle Phase aka “Working Through”; and a Late Phase aka Integration, generally leads to positive outcomes. Dr Haliburn will describe how the Conversational Model (PIT) optimises each of these three phases, some typical interventions utilised in the Conversational Model, and the reasons for those interventions. Topics included are the therapeutic relationship, transference and countertransference, disjunctions and repair, impasses and ways to move through them, fear of traumatic repetitions that inherently inhibit client change, therapy separations and endings/termination.

Venue: Online Webinar.  Includes access to video recording for 30 days, excluding clinical video observation content.

Date: Saturday, 13th of April, 2024

Time: 1100hrs to 1230hrs (Sydney/Melbourne Time)

Cost: 74.99 

About Dr Joan Haliburn: Dr Joan Haliburn is a Consultant Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatrist, trained in the Conversational Model of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, in the Systems Model of Family Therapy and in Attachment Strange Situation. She is in private practice and is a faculty member of the Complex Trauma Training Unit, University of Sydney at Westmead Clinical School. She has been involved in psychotherapy research and writing since graduating in 1987. Her most recent book ‘An Integrated Approach to Short Term Dynamic Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Clinician’s Guide’ 2017 is used in the short-term therapy training course. She has also co-edited “Humanising Mental Health Care in Australia” 2019 and has authored numerous papers in local and international journals.

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