Psychotherapy Division Presents: Strategic Psychotherapeutics - Using the Building Blocks of Clinical Science to Enhance Practice

12 October 2024, from 10 am to 4.30 pm, In Person

Location: Marino Institute of Education, Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9, D09 R232

This event is being run by the Division of Psychotherapy

There are over four hundred approaches to psychotherapy, most of which branch from the primary streams of learning including clinical experience, empirical evidence, theoretical systems, and evidence from related disciplines such as developmental, relational, and cognitive psychology, as well as neuroscience.

The basic building blocks of psychotherapeutics that are fundamental to most approaches are well documented. Strategic Psychotherapeutics uses these building blocks to inform evidence-based practices, combining the best empirical evidence and clinical expertise with patient preferences and values.

In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the StratPsych® system, which delineates the domains of knowledge that constitute the fundamental building blocks of psychotherapy. The therapeutic scope and impact of clinicians can be enhanced when therapists are grounded in the fundamental knowledge domains, which are the building blocks of strategic psychotherapeutics. As clinicians gain an understanding of how these basics relate to approaches and technical interventions, more complex therapeutic activities such as assessment, case formulation, treatment planning, clinical decision making, and alliance maintenance can be appreciated.

In this workshop, participants will learn the 11 fundamental building blocks of psychotherapeutics, principles, and time-tested clinical constructs used as heuristics that can be used to select the approaches and technical interventions best suited to each patient.

The goal of this workshop is to enhance clinical expertise by providing the basic, intermediate, and advanced knowledge domains universal to all psychotherapeutics.

Following the Introduction and Overview, the outline of the day will include sections on:

- The Building Blocks of Psychotherapy

- The Fundamental Domains of Knowledge

- Strategies and Processes

- Techniques from psychotherapedia ®

- Assessment, Case Formulation, & Treatment Planning

- Psychotherapeutic Process

- Clinical Decision Making

- The Building Blocks of Psychotherapy

Presenter bios

Jeffrey J. Magnavita, Ph.D., ABPP

Jeffrey is a clinical psychologist with over three decades of clinical experience working with personality dysfunction, trauma, and relational disturbances.

He is an internationally recognized speaker who has published eleven professional volumes on personality disorders, personality theory, psychotherapy, clinical decision making, and technology in mental health practice. His psychotherapeutic work has been featured in two APA psychotherapy videos. He served on the APA Clinical Practice Guideline Committee and was invited to serve on the Advisory Work Group on the Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice. He served as the President in 2010 of the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy. He is the Founder and CEO of Strategic Psychotherapeutics, LLC, the developer of StratPsych ®, an online learning system for psychotherapists.

Declan Aherne, Ph.D.

Declan is a clinical psychologist and gestalt psychotherapist. He was founding chairperson of the division of psychotherapy, PSI and has been a long-standing member of the EFPA working group on psychologists specializing in psychotherapy. Declan is a member of the board of directors at the Gestalt Institute of Ireland. He was Head of Counselling at UL for 32 years and is now Director of Oakwood psychological services in Limerick, which is the largest private practice of its type in the country with 60 clinicians on the team. He is also Clinical Director of the family wellbeing project ‘The Sky is the Limit’, at Corpus Christi primary school, Moyross, Limerick. He has taught on and been external examiner on numerous psychotherapy training programmes in Ireland. 

This event is being run by the Div of Psychotherapy, Psychological Society of Ireland

Event Format: In person

Prices:
Booking Rate: €150
Early Bird Rate (until June 11): €125
Student: €75
Early Bird Student (until June 11): €50