On April 27 we are hosting a one-day certification webinar:
The Therapeutic Contract: How treatment arrangements determine the effectiveness of therapy
Faculty - Monica Carsky, PhD (USA)
For more details and to register for the program, click here:
Dear colleagues!
On April 27 we are hosting a one-day certification webinar:
The Therapeutic Contract:
How treatment arrangements determine the effectiveness of therapy
Faculty - Monica Carsky, PhD (USA)
For more details and to register for the program, click here:
https://en.borderline.institute/?utm_source=tfp_site
Briefly announcing the webinar details.
What is a therapeutic contract?
The therapeutic contract is a tactic that ensures the effectiveness of the entire treatment.This is the first step toward consistent and successful psychotherapy, which cannot begin without establishing clear treatment parameters.
The therapeutic contract is not just about "time, place, and fee." It is about creating an environment in which an effective psychotherapeutic process can unfold. The therapeutic contract establishes the treatment frame, delineates the responsibility of each participant, and prepares the foundation for observing, studying, and modifying the patient's psychic dynamics within the therapeutic space.
The therapeutic contract defines the reality of the therapeutic relationship. Guided by these agreements, the therapist can recognize the patient's distortions of the therapeutic relationship, which opens the “royal road” to the patient's unconscious - any deviations from the contract by the patient become objects of exploration and understanding in therapy. Without clear agreements about contact, these deviations can be elusive, leading to confusion in transference and countertransference and, in turn, to therapeutic impasse.
Why is it important to establish a therapeutic contract?
With a therapeutic contract, psychotherapists across different modalities can:
– Establish a mutual understanding of the issues with the patient
– Define the reality of the therapeutic relationship
– Set the central focus on treatment goals
– Specify the responsibilities of both the patient and the therapist
– Protect the patient, the therapist, and the therapy itself
– Safeguard the therapist's ability to think clearly
– Create a safe space for the unfolding of the patient's dynamics and affects
– Lay the foundation for interventions regarding deviations from the contract (which provide a direct path to understanding the patient's unconscious material)
– Establish the basis for forming the therapeutic alliance
The primary function of the contract is to bring conflicting object relations into the therapeutic process—in other words, to transform chronic acting-out behaviors into identifiable and examinable component object relations.
What problem does the therapeutic contract solve?
Individuals with borderline and other personality disorders tend to enact their conflicts in potentially dangerous ways that can create serious difficulties in psychotherapy, where the therapist may feel that their primary role is to "rescue" the patient from self-destructive behavior rather than conduct psychotherapy.
The more severe the patient's disorder and the more distorted their interpersonal interactions in the therapeutic relationship, the more powerful the primitive object relations in the transference. These evoke an intense countertransference. The therapeutic position is vulnerable to the threat of potential acting out of transference feelings by the patient and, at times, to the therapist's temptation to act out their own countertransference. Without a well-thought-out and mutually discussed therapeutic frame and contract, the mutual enactment of transference and countertransference obscures the therapist's clear understanding of the psychodynamics of what is taking place.
With higher-functioning patients, different challenges emerge. The dynamics of higher-functioning patients are more difficult to track because their reactions in therapy appear almost normal. It is not easy to notice subtle deviations, and this is where the therapeutic frame and contract also helps - minor deviations from the agreed frame open the way to exploring deeper dynamics.
Who benefits from the webinar?
This webinar will be especially valuable for psychotherapists of various modalities:
– Psychodynamic (including psychoanalytic) orientations
– Humanistic orientations
– TFP therapists seeking to refine their application of the TFP model
– For TFP-oriented therapists who are on the path to certification, this webinar is part of the required didactic program.
Date and Time of the webinar:
On April, 27 - webinar date
13:40-20:00 (London time) - webinar hours
Format & languages of the webinar:
Online Education in English
What does the webinar consist of?
The webinar is divided into 3 consecutive blocks:
Block I - Didactic Lecture
Block II - Didactic Session, Clinical Segment (Video Analysis), Q&A
Block III - Didactic Session 1, Clinical Segment 1 (Video Analysis 1), Q&A
A detailed schedule and content for each webinar block can be found on our website at the following link:
For more details and to register for the program, click here:
https://en.borderline.institute/?utm_source=tfp_site
Who is the faculty of the webinar?
The webinar is conducted by Monica Carsky - Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Senior Fellow, Personality Disorders Institute, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Adjunct Assistant Professor, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Faculty, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR)
Supervising and Training Analyst, Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey
She has taught courses on Freud, Klein, Object-Relations theory, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and the understanding and treatment of personality disorders and more severe psychiatric illnesses for psychiatric residents, graduate students, and postgraduate psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers in numerous settings.
Who is the organizer of the webinar?
The webinar is organized by the Ukrainian Institute for Personality Disorder Studies.
The Institute has already conducted more than 149 hours of training events and has more than 1306 participants who have completed certification training.
The Institute collaborate with leading experts: Otto Kernberg, Frank Yeomans, Monica Carsky, Tennyson Lee, Katarzyna Gwóźdź, Veronica Steiner, Nel Draijer, Jos van Mosel, Julia Sowislo, Mathieu Norton-Poulin
What do participants receive upon completion of the webinar?
As a result of successfully mastering the webinar material, participants will:
– Learn to establish a contract in a way that limits acting-out and enactment behaviors and creates conditions for reflection and exploration in therapy.
– Understand the meaning, functions, and significance of the therapeutic contract for different types of patients.
– Develop the ability to manage the therapeutic framework to feel secure, even when working with severe personality disorder patients.
– Understand the main therapeutic interventions
Upon completion of the training, participants will receive a personalized electronic certificate issued on behalf of the event organizers, signed by the faculty, Monica Carsky, a member of the ISTFP Board, leading TFP supervisor and instructor, and Oleksii Lemeshchuk - Director of the Ukrainian Institute for Personality Disorders Studies.
For more details and to register for the program, click here:
https://en.borderline.institute/?utm_source=tfp_site
Hurry up and register for the webinar that will make achieving therapeutic goals realistic and a manageable process!
Best regards,
TFP-Group Ukraine
Ukrainian Institute for Personality Disorders Studies