Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute: For Mental Health Professionals

For Mental Health Professionals

Continuing Education Courses for
Mental Health Professionals ...

CASE CONFERENCE

"Somatic regression as defense against traumata"
with Salman Akhtar, MD, Discussant
Jennifer Scroggie, RN, PMHNP, BC, Presenter
Saturday, June 15, 2013
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Institute Classroom A
Credit Hours: 1.5

Objectives:
1.  Participants will be able to describe a theory of therapeutic action as demonstrated through case material.
2.  Participants will be able to discuss adaptive and maladaptive defenses as seen in case material. 

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Let's Talk About Money:
Ethics, Money and Fees in Clinical Practice
Phoebe Cirio, MSW, LCSW
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
7:30-9:30 p.m.
Institute Classroom A
Credit Hours: 3.0
This course is designed to meet the 3 Continuing Education Units in Ethics required for Missouri Social Work licensure.
Registration: Click HERE
The NASW Code of Ethics advises "social workers (to) ensure that the fees are fair, reasonable, and commensurate with the service performed.  Consideration should be given to clients' ability to pay." (NASW Code of Ethics 1.13)  But fair and reasonable to whom exactly?  The therapist, the patient, and are their interest really the same?  Freud (1913) said that "it seems more respectable and ethically less objectionable to acknowledge one's actual claims and needs rather than...to act the part of the disinterested philanthropist."

Fees, and fee setting, are often not spoken about explicitly, and the veil of secrecy around fees makes the subject of money seem taboo.  This veil conceals the differing fees that individual therapists charge, differing cancellation policies, and beneath all of these concerns are the personal anxieties we all have about money. In clinical work, fantasies about money can represent meanings at all early stages of development, and there are significant relational issues pertaining to money.

In this course we will consider some aspects of money, and the financing of psychotherapy, and the ethical implications thereof. 

Required Readings - available upon registration.

Objectives:
1.  Identify difficulties in setting a fee in psychotherapy.
2.  Discuss various meanings of the fee for both parties in the psychotherapy relationship.
3.  Apply ethical principles when setting the fee in clinical practice.

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Windows into the Therapy Process
Stuart Ozar, MD, and Melissa Scolaro, MA, MSW
NEXT SPRING!

Wednesdays
7:15-9:15 p.m.
Institute Classroom A
CME/CE: 14 Credit Hours
Fee: $225 (book fee included)

This course will focus on an in-depth discussion of clinical case material in order to shed light on the psychodynamic psychotherapy process. Each class will begin with a brief theoretical description of a core clinical concept, followed by the presentation and discussion of material from a long-term psychotherapy process.

We welcome lively discussion, dialogue and debate. While we encourage therapists working from within other theoretical frameworks to take this class, we do expect participants to have some knowledge of psychodynamic theory and practice.

Objectives:
Participants will be able to:

1. Identify characteristic aspects of clinical material.
2. Clarify the relationship of theory to clinical practice.
3. Describe various phases of treatment.
4. Describe the experience and use of transference and countertransference.
5. Define the concepts of conflict and compromise formation.
6. Describe multiple models of psychological functioning.
7. Describe the spectrum of psychodynamic treatments.
8. Begin to assess suitability for psychodynamic treatments.
9. Describe various types of defensive operations.
10. Describe the emotional challenges experienced by psychotherapists.
11. Describe the reasons why a therapist's personal therapy is important.
12. Describe what is meant by the concept of psychotherapeutic frame.

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