Practical Introduction to General Practice Psychotherapy

July 25-29, 2011, Deerhurst Resort, Huntsville

Our seminars run from 9:00 to 12:15 daily, allowing registrants to make use of the resort amenities in the afternoons.

Overview:

An interactive overview of relevant theories and techniques of General Practice Psychotherapy, and brief overview of Interpersonal Therapy. Essential "Do's" and "Don'ts" of psychotherapy including Record Keeping, Confidentiality, Patient and Therapist Safety, Consent to Treatment, Forming a Therapeutic Alliance and Boundary Issues. Interactive discussion of real and fictional patient-therapist encounters. There will be viewing of some professional videos showing real patients and also some Hollywood films featuring depictions of psychotherapy. 

Topics:

Universal therapeutic factors in various common forms of psychotherapy, Psychotherapy Guidelines & suggested standards; Consent to treatment, record keeping, assessing suicide risk, assessing dangerousness (duty to warn), confidentiality, diagnosis, assessment & psychotherapeutic treatment of depression; appropriate boundaries for effective therapeutic intervention; discussion & viewing of video clips from movies; introduction to interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for depression; historical & conceptual basis of interpersonal psychotherapy; working with role disputes & role transitions; videotaped case  presentations; the trans-theoretical model of behaviour change, one wounded healer’s journey through stress and depression; issues in physician’ health & illness.

Faculty:

Dr. Michael Paré, M.D., M.Sc., M.Ed., C-IPT, C-GT, Physician Psychotherapist, Education Chair OMA Section on GP-Psychotherapy, Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, Tyndale University.

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Accreditation:

This program meets the accreditation criteria of The College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been accredited for up to 15 Mainpro-C credits and 15 Mainpro-M1 credits.