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W/AMI, with more than 1,100 paid members is the largest affiliate in the country. It was admitted as a United Way agency in 1983 and was funded by the state legislature in 1985.

W/AMI's mission is to address the unmet needs of individuals with metal illness through self-help support groups, 24 hour a day person-to-person crisis intervention, information and referral, outreach, advocacy, and public education.

In addition to its regular training programs, the Washington School sponsors research and offers conferences, institutes, workshops and lectures. The Washington School also provides psychotherapy and outreach to the community and offers additional training opportunities to the students in the School's training programs.

The Washington School of Psychiatry is a nonprofit corporation supported by service fees, tuition and charitable contributions.

The official publication of the Washington School of Psychiatry is Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes.

1. Treating the Difficult Patient Washington, DC: January 9, 2010
2. Basic Principles of Group Psychotherapy: "The Core Course" Washington, DC: January 20, 2010
3. Brief Therapy for the Real World and for the Inner World: "A Contemporary Object Relations Approach" Washington, DC: January 21, 2010
4. Fostering Regression and Excitement: "Using a Developmental Lens the Omnipotent Child Takes Center Stage" Washington, DC: January 22-23, 2010

Objectives:

• Discuss theoretical and practical information about treating difficult patients in psychotherapy
• Use a different framework for understanding the difficult patient
• Exhibit greater comfort when sitting with difficult patients

Presenter: J Scott Rutan, PhD, Boston Institute for Psychotherapy.

As many as 6 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors

Objectvies:

• Discuss the five areas of group psychotherapy principles as defined by the American Group Psychotherapy Association and the National Registry of Certified Group Psychotherapists
• Apply these principles to clinical situations in groups they conduct or may conduct in the future
• Critically examine specific problems in the conduct of group psychotherapy

Facutly:

• George Saiger, MD, Faculty, Group Psychotherapy Training Program, Washington School of Psychiatry, DC
• Farooq Mohyuddin, MD, Director, Psychiatry Residency Program, St Elizabeth's Hospital; Faculty, Group Psychotherapy Training Program, Washington School of Psychiatry, DC

Most of the writing and research on brief psychotherapy emphasizes technique. While this has contributed enormously to clinical practice, the therapeutic relationship in brief therapy has not been given adequate attention. Yet it is as important in brief work as it is in long term treatment. Perhaps more than any other psychodynamic perspective, object relations theory focuses on the relationship in therapy and is one of the major roots of relational psychodynamic approaches. Contemporary object relations therapy emphasizes the importance of the holding environment, the therapist's use of self, empathic attunement, in the specific object relationships that are enacted and reenacted in the therapeutic encounter.

This seminar will focus on how this relational perspective can enhance the practical, applied work of brief therapy. Application of contributions of Klein, Fairbairn, Guntrip, Winnicott, Ogden and D. and J. Scharff will be included. Readings will focus on Stadter's book, Object Relations Brief Therapy: The Relationship in Short-term Work (1996, 2009) published by Jason Aronson. Additional readings from other authors will also be assigned. The presenter will provide many case examples and invite case material from the participants.

Topics:

• Object relations concepts and brief therapy
• Time-near and time-far: the signature impact of time in brief therapy
• Selection: inclusive and exclusive approaches
• Rapid establishment of the alliance
• The key and creative challenge of setting a focus
• Use of verbal interpretations and interpretation-in-action
• Use of transference and countertransference
• Use of non-psychodynamic techniques
• Termination

Objectives:

• Apply the principles of contemporary object relations theory to brief therapy
• Apply this approach to the participants' clinical settings
• Use a symptomatic and dynamic focus in brief therapy
• Identify the impact of the dimension of time as an ingredient in therapy
• Plan for the issues involved with termination in brief therapy

Trainer: Michael Stadter, PhD, Bethesda; Faculty, Clinical Program on Psychotherapy Practice and the Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program, Washington School of Psychiatry; Faculty and Board Member, International Psychotherapy Institute.

Up to 12 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors

Objectives:

• Identify the characteristics of the Omnipotent Child
• Identify the power of excitement in the group process
• Identify techniques that flesh out the Omnipotent Child in the group members and in the group

Presenter: Stewart L Aledort, MD, CGP, FAGPA, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, George Washington School of Medicine; Faculty, Washington Psychoanalytic Institute; Founding faculty, National Group Psychotherapy Institute, Washington School of Psychiatry, DC.

Up to 12 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors

As part of its commitment to academic excellence, the Institute maintains a professional library, computer research facilities and contributes to the field at large through its own publications which include newsletters, journal, monographs and books.

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