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Robert J. Kohlenberg, PhD
Behavioral Science and Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP): Maximizing Therapeutic Impact
Learn how to increase the emotional intensity and interpersonal focus of your therapy. Dr. Kohlenberg will use videotaped illustrations and experiential exercises to provide a conceptual and practical framework that will help you supercharge your next therapy session. Their research and clinical work are informed by sound behavioral principles described in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP; Kohlenberg & Tsai, 1991).
FAP is a user-friendly, integrative, and considered a “third wave” behavior therapy. FAP employs functional analysis to help therapists recognize special opportunities for using the client-therapist relationship.
Topics to be covered include: 1) how to make your clients’ learning experiences more powerful by recognizing the subtle ways their daily life problems are brought into the therapeutic relationship, 2) how and why a simple modification to the commonly used dysfunctional thought record sets the scene for increasing the intensity of the therapy session, 3) how to make your clients’ hidden cognitions and behaviors more visible, 4) how to use experiential exercises to help your clients contact deeper feelings and improve interpersonal skills, and 5) an brief explanation of the theory that underlies all of the above.
The techniques you will learn are applicable to almost any disorder including depression, anxiety, OCD, intimacy issues, and problems of the self.
Learning objectives:
- How to recognize the two special types of client cognition and behavior that are key to maximizing therapeutic change.
- Three major guidelines that therapists can use to supercharge their interventions:
- When commonly used interventions can either be therapeutic or inadvertently counter-therapeutic.
- How a simple addition to the dysfunctional thought record can have significant therapeutic impact.
- How to expand your therapeutic rationale to prepare your clients for more in-vivo interactive work.
- A behavioral reconceptualization of cognitive therapy
- How to use forms and other patient handouts to intensify the client therapist interaction.
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Robert J. Kohlenberg, PhD, ABPP, is a professor of psychology at the University of Washington, where he was the Director of Clinical Training from 1997 - 2004. He and Dr. Mavis Tsai are co-authors of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP): A guide for creating intense and curative therapeutic relationships, New York: Springer (1991). Dr. Kohlenberg has presented “Master Clinician” and “World Round” sessions at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and has published papers on migraine, OCD, depression, intimacy of the therapeutic relationship, and a FAP approach to understanding the self. He has presented FAP workshops both in the US and internationally. He has received 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. |
Target audience:
Practicing clinicians who have familiarity with Cognitive and/or Behavior Therapy, and experience in treating both disorders such as depression, anxiety, OCD and problems of the self. The workshop would also be of interest to psychodynamic therapists who are interested in learning a behavioral approach to understanding the curative role of the therapist-client relationship.
Course approvals:
Evidence is approved as a non-profit continued education provider by the the Norwegian Psychological association (NPF), the Norwegian Medical Association (Dnlf), the Norwegian Nurses Council (NSF) and the joint association of social educators, child welfare specialists and social workers (FO).
Applications for CME credits will be submitted. Feel free to contact us with a request, and we might submit an application of CME credits approval from the professional organization of your country. The main target group for this workshop is psychologists and MDs.
Workshop Fee:
Currently being updated, more information coming soon.
Time and Place:
Oslo (date to be confirmed)
