Two seminars by

professor Allan Abbass

on

Sensible Cost Reductions in Health Care

16 september 2013

for mental health professionals: 'the graded format of ISTDP' and beyond

17 september 2013:

at the Huisartsopleiding Maastricht

Dealing with somatization, part I.

The two seminars are meant for different audiences. Have a look and see what fits best to your own interests.

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General information

Watch the interview with professor Abbass on youtube (march 2013)

You might consider reading the following papers, as an introduction:

more to be found at: http://istdp.ca/media.htm#publications

About dr Abbass

Professor Allan Abbass worked as a familiy doctor and as an emergency doctor. He is now renowned as a psychiatrist and teacher in the field of brief psychotherapy. At the seminar he will present his techniques for diagnosis and treatment, supported by video vignettes. His work is not a fashion whim; it is thoroughly based upon nearly fifty years of empirical research, in the best tradition of Malan and Davanloo.

from the Dalhousie website:

Professor and Director of Education, Dalhousie University Department of Psychiatry Staff Psychiatrist, Capital District Health Authority Director, Centre for Emotions and Health 8th floor, Abbie J. Lane Memorial Building Phone: (902) 473-2514 Fax: (902) 473-4545 E-mail: allan.abbass@dal.ca Dr. Abbass' major focus is clinical in the area of Emotions and Health, including training physicians to recognize and manage stress linked presentations in the emergency department and other medical settings. A recognized expert in teaching of Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy, he currently provides on-site and internet-based workshops and supervision to training groups in the UK, US, Poland, Norway, Italy, and Australia. For this and other educational work he has won several teaching awards including a national teaching award in psychiatry. Research Interests: Systematic reviews of the literature on brief dynamic therapy for various somatic and psychiatric conditions Case series and controlled trial outcome research in short-term dynamic psychotherapy Research on the cost-effectiveness of short-term dynamic psychotherapies Research on the occupational benefits of short-term dynamic psychotherapy

16 september

for mental health professionals: 'the graded format of ISTDP' and beyond

Schedule of the workshop
Venue, registration, money
General information
 

This workshop focuses on the 'Graded Format', which is Davanloo's relatively new technique for dealing with a class of patients, such as fragile patients, whose anxiety levels are too high for his regular older technique. A theoretical and a practical comparison with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy will be made, as well as with neuroimaging findings. The workshop is organized as an event in the project 'Sensible Cost Reductions in Health Care'. A preliminary table of findings can be found here.

What we are after is to facilitate the exploration of crosslinks between findings obtained in research and in treatment. Professor Abbass is an exceptionally effective psychodynamic therapist with the special quality of doing a lot of empirical process research, and of publishing it at that. Psychotherapy research has become a highly impoverished field, in which all kinds of therapy outcome are measured and correlated, but in which the logic and the dynamics of the processes are largely ignored, for various reasons. If this field is going to survive, i.e. if psychotherapy research is again to be taken serious, it must be due to the substantial insights obtained in process research, and not due to the technology produced by outcome data and their correlations. This workshop addresses issues of therapeutic technique and connects them with research findings and cost savings.
 

9.00 registration, coffee & tea
9.30 Overview of Davanloo's ISTDP: a metapsychology of unconscious processes
11.00 coffee & tea break
11.15 Davanloo's "Graded Format". ISTPD through the lens of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Example of Exposure therapy 
13.00 lunch break (simple lunch included)
14.00 Neurobiology of Unlocking the Unconscious: Recent neuroimaging findings in psychodynamic therapy, resistance and predictors of poor response to restricted forms of CBT
15.30 coffee & tea break
15.45 An effort at Synthesis: Emotion Mobilization and other Variables as predictors of treatment outcome across models
17.00 Panel discussion (featuring Jan Derksen, Ellen Driessen and Rosemarie Samaritter)
 

General information (16 september)

Venue: Maastricht School of management, Endepolsdomein 150 Maastricht,
situated straight in front of Maastricht Randwyck station.  (click for 80 meters walk from train station, click for description)

Fee:  €250 [ but €200 before 16 august 2013 ] [date of receipt, not date of transferral!]
(Please notice: our fees are to cover only the expected costs, non-profit!)

Please register as soon as possible, so that we can make the best arrangements.

Registration. Registration is closed. <%Dutch participants are kindly requested to register at our dutch aanmeldpagina. Foreign participants are kindly requested to use the registration form  (international) %>  

17 september

at the Huisartsopleiding Maastricht
Dealing with somatization, part I
 

organized by: Huisartsopleiding Maastricht and EDT Maastricht

Schedule of the workshop
Venue, registration, money
Goals
General information

Schedule of the workshop of 17 september:
9.00 Welcome and introduction
9.10 Training overview. Overview of assessment frame
10.15 Coffee and tea
10.30 Spectra of patients and pattern recognition
12.30 Lunch break (lunch not included)
13.30 Underlying emotions in patients. Emotions in the doctor: a gauge and guide
15.00 Coffee and tea
15.15 Cautionary notes: aggression and regression. Medications and emotional processes
16.30 Looking forward
17.00 Closure

General information (17 september)

Venue: Huisartsopleiding, Debeyeplein 1, Maastricht.

Fee:  €125

Please register as soon as possible, so that we can make the best arrangements.

Registration (17 september). Registration is closed.<% Dutch participants are kindly requested to register at our dutch aanmeldpagina. Foreign participants are kindly requested to use the registration form  (international)%>  

The secretariat of the Huisartsopleiding Maastricht (phone: +31-(0)43-3882814) will be happy to support you with any further question (ask for mrs Petra Vleugels).

A request for the assignment of accreditation points has been made for general practitioners in the Netherlands (Bia-accreditatie voor huisartsen).

Goals

Two days of workshops per year are envisioned, as well as intermittent (video tape) supervision over the internet.

The idea is to set up a research project on 'sensible cost reductions in health care', in which participating family doctors train and practice the diagnostic skills presented at the workshops.

The following learning goals:
-to understand and know the economic burden of emotional factors on medical health system
-to recognize somatic pathways of emotions
-to recognize somatic pathways of anxiety
-to learn how to examine the emotional system
-to learn how to interpret the findings
-to communicate this to patients
-to make referrals
-to recognize depression, psychosis and suicidality in patients.

The aim is furthermore to train some people to become trainers themselves and transmit this to resident learners
The first workshop was originally scheduled on march 12, 2013. Due to weather circumstances (heavy snow at the airport) this meeting had to be cancelled in its final countdown. We are happy with the new opportunity.

Zie voor eerdere seminars van EDT Maastricht:

http://www.edtmaastricht.nl/osimo (17 maart 2006)

http://www.edtmaastricht.nl/frederickson (4 december 2007)

http://www.edtmaastricht.nl/neborsky (11 september 2008)

http://www.edtmaastricht.nl/coughlin (5 maart 2010)

http://www.edtmaastricht.nl/neborsky2 (27 mei 2011)

http://www.edtmaastricht.nl/abbass (22 oktober 2012)

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