Friday, September 13, 2024 from 8:30 AM to 4 PM and Saturday, September 14, 2024, from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM

All times listed are in Pacific Time (PT) unless otherwise noted.

*** Registration will close at 4:30 PM the day before the event. No registrations are possible after this time, no exceptions. ***

PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION: 

• The program presentation runs from 8:30 to 4 on Friday, September 13 and 8:30 to 3:30 on Saturday, September 13
• Pre-registration is required. This program is being presented Online Only.
• 11.5 CE/CME credits are offered for this program.  
• A signature is required (in the meeting Chat) for CE/CME Credit.
• You will receive confirmation and details by email. Contact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions. 

Going Deeper Into Transference-Focused Psychotherapy

How To Set Up a Successful TFP Treatment - The Opening Phase in Close Detail. 

In this intermediate to advanced intensive on the opening phase of TFP treatment, Frank Yeomans will guide participants in the nuances and intricacies of successful Contracting (dealing with comorbidities, self-harm, and suicidality), Precise Assessment (including demonstrated use of Kernberg’s Structural Interview), and the specific interpretive and process work built into the opening phase of TFP treatment.  

The Opening Phase of treatment can spell both the success and failure of difficult cases. Applying TFP modality, ISTFP President Frank Yeomans, MD, PhD, will conduct a master class with a hyper focus on setting up a successful TFP training for difficult patients and those suffering from personality disorders.

Freud said in his Fragment of an Analysis that while taking up the transference early is difficult, it can prevent the failure of the treatment later on. By design, TFP through its contracting, confronting, clarification, and early interpretations, which are deeply connected to the contracting, brings forward the transference helping to ensure a more successful treatment for the patient who suffers from painful symptoms brought on by rigid personality organizations and consequential personality disorders.

In this intensive training, trainees will learn a fine-grain, technical-heavy approach to the Opening Phase of TFP treatment designed to stabilize the patient for sustained treatment. 

According to the tenants of TFP training, clinicians will learn more about discussing diagnosis with the patient, setting up adequate treatment goals and the role of that, and, in particular, going into great detail about the ins and outs of the treatment contract with examples about contracting around different kinds of problematic presentations.

Much thought, experience, and research has gone into the Opening Phase of TFP, leading to successful treatment of difficult patients supported by evidence, including greater reflectivity, attachment, and integration.

This special two-day training will offer a diagnostic phase of treatment for patients suffering from personality disorders, including:

• Implementation of the TFP Contract
• The methodology, reasoning and evidence in support of contracting
• The interpretive process
• Structured Interview for Personality Organization
• Case presentations

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the current perspective on Personality Disorder
• Apply criteria to differentiate Personality Disorders and differentiate levels of Personality Organization
• Explain the basic tenets of Transference-focused Psychotherapy
• Explain basic Object Relations models
• Analyze the components that make up a Full Clinical Evaluation
• Compare the different approaches to make a Full Clinical Evaluation
• Describe Kernberg’s Structural Interview
• Describe Structured Interview of Personality Organization (STIPO)
• Apply the technique of Beginning Treatment Phase where clinician discussed diagnosis with the patient
• Describe the Principles of the TFP Treatment Contract
• Analyze the rationale of treatment contracting
• Describe principles of TFP Contracting by examining the case material
• Analyze applying the Structural Interview
• Describe and discuss Full Clinical Evaluations, Personality Organization, and the Structured Interview of Personality Organization (STIPO)
• Analyze the practicalities of the Contracting Process
• Analyze Assessment and analyze Contracting
• Apply the Treatment Contract to the interpretive process based on the presented therapy session and discussion
• Describe Case Presentation Format
• Analyze the material presented using TFP techniques
• Describe TFP Contracting found in the case presentation
• Explain how to implement a TFP Contract
• Explain how the Contracting Process informs and propels the interpretive process in the beginning phase of treatment

Program Coordinator:

Joshua Richmond, MPW

Frank Yeomans, MD, PhD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College, Director of Training at the Personality Disorders Institute of Weill-Cornell, and Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. He is president of the International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and past Chair of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on Psychotherapy. Dr. Yeomans’ primary interests are the development, investigation, teaching, and practice of psychotherapy for personality disorders. He headed the specialized unit for patients with Borderline Personality Disorder at the Weill Cornell Medical Center for ten years and has subsequently focused on the practice and teaching of TFP nationally and internationally.

FEES:

With CE/CME: NCP Membership Registration CE/CME - $960.00 | General Registration CE/CME - $1200.00 | Student Registration CE/CME - $750.00 

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT 

PHYSICIANS: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the New Center for Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 11.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

PSYCHOLOGISTS: The New Center for Psychoanalysis is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  The New Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists must report CE credits directly to MCEP using this document to verify attendance. Please note that a psychologist must attend the CE program in its entirety in order to receive credit.  

SOCIAL WORKERS, MARRIAGE and FAMILY THERAPISTS (LCSW, LMFT, ASW, IMF, LEP, LPCC, PCCI): The New Center for Psychoanalysis is a continuing education provider that has been approved by the American Psychological Association, a California Board of Behavioral Sciences recognized approval agency.

The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.