AAP - 2013 Summer Workshop: Resiliency

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Wed. 1:45PM - 4:45PM

Thurs. 9:00AM - 12:15PM

Fri. 9:00AM - 12:15PM

Sat. 9:00AM - 12:15PM

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By completing this form, you attest that you have participated in all selected activities in thier entirety.

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Please rate the speaker(s) as a group. You will have the opportunity to elaborate on an individual speaker in the following question.

Please rate the following:

The program was relevant to my work.

Content matched stated objectives.

Usefulness of handouts/AV.

Quality of facilities.

How well did the educational sessions give a balanced view of therapeutic options, including the use of generic names?

If you rated any of the above questions with 'fair,' 'poor,' 'disagree,' or 'strongly disagree' please explain in detail (e.g. session title, speaker name, situtation):

If you have additional comments regarding the session or individual speaker(s) - e.g. teaching ability, expertise, organization of materials, etc. - please use the space below:

Having completed the activity, please rate your ability to meet each of the following objectives:

Identify brain structures involved in the experience of physical and social pain

Utilize the concepts biopsychosocial vortex and the somatoform solution

Describe assessment approaches/controversies associated with assessment of attachment style in adults

List 10 aspects of psychotherapeutic relationships that have a proven research evidence base

Explain the meaning of effect size of therapeutic alliance, empathy, positive regard and collecting client feedback

Discuss how evidence-based aspects of relationships are used in his/her work

Discuss medico-legal issues associated with disability

Identify own attachment issues and implications for treatment

Propose interventions that may provide alternatives to the somatoform solution

Describe evidence based factors enhancing client-therapist match

Describe the conflicts and resistance around research in advocating for meaningful psychotherapy

Summarize with confidence the evidence basis for the practice of relationship-based psychtoehrapy

Identify a better sense of their own internal resiliency

Name the factors going into their avoidance of growth choices

State the consequences to themselves and to others when they surrender to their fears and resistances

Explain when to do a debriefing versus when to apply pressure for the patient to cultivate resilience

Compare and contrast resilience versus strength

Name the four best ways to improve emotional resilience

Develop a deeper understanding of the concept of resilience from a personal perspective

Evaluate specific interpersonal impediments to the development of resilience

Identify specific factors that promote and maintain the capacity for resilience

Identify the experience of shame as it occurs in the group

Identify defenses triggered by shame as it occurs interpersonally in the group

Describe, with increasing honesty, their shame experience to other participants

Apply the research truncated development as it relates to the resilient teenager

Summarize and discuss the complexitites involved in parental decisions to help too little or too much and the potential outcomes of each

Use the knowledge from the group to assist work with families and children facing the struggles associated with parental aiding or truncated development of Self

Identify how early childhood experiences modify the brain

Distinguish indicators of the developmental course of their adult patients

Describe methods for treating the effects of childhood trauma

List 3 ethical, clinical or risk management issues that are relevant to client's or therapist's experience for injury in psychotherapy

Identify 3 examples of injury that affect clients or therapists in psychotherapy

Describe 3 approaches effective in repairing injury and buidling resiliency in clients

Explain how the fear of engulfment and the fear of abandonment affect the therapists coping mechanisms

Describe the physical manifestations of depression, defeatism, and surrender

Describe the physical manifestations of resiliency and how they affect the therapists in daily life

Define the realities of resilience, catastrophe, distortion and loss in the human experience

Discuss the subjective and relational factors that enable resilience

Identify the role of the therapist in facilitating or blocking resilience in both client and self

Apply experiences within the group process to new knowledge of their clinical practices

Apply experiences within the group process to new knowledge of their own lives

Distinguish between process/training groups and therapy groups

Identify changing attitude towards shame from negative to more neutral

Use more neutral/resilient attitude to explore aspects of themselves they're ashamed of

Use new found resilience to more empathically help others explore hidden, shame laden parts of themselves

Demonstrate traditional technqiues for accepting limitations or struggles of both therapists and their patients

Demonstrate the use of non-traditional techniques to access and discover strengths of both therapists and patients

Recommend non-traditional techniques to patients for centering and grounding

Identify their default crisis response and/or survival strategy (i.e., fight, flight or freeze)

Describe the areas or the brain involved in emergency reaction

Identify the nine prefrontal functions

Define sexual resilience

Discuss obstacles to sexual health

Identify and discuss how sexual "acting-out" and re-enactment trauma can ultimately lead to sexual resilience

Access their own inner metaphors for transformation

Articualte their emotional response to pain, trauma and loss

Understand how participants relate to others in their trauma

Describe resiliency and its antonyms

List ways in which personality characteristics can block resilient responses

Apply understanding of the vicissitudes of resiliency to psychotherapy work

Discuss the meaning of resilience to aging clients

Explain the difference between sex and sexuality

List three levels of hopefulness for those who are aging

Describe their experience of resilience, positive or negative, secondary to interaction with the natural world

Describe psychological aspects of resilience inherent in indeigenous teachings

List ways they can incorporate their learning and experience into their practice of psychotherapy

Explain how the family system may assist or deter individual from rebounding

Describe how empowerment frees one to become resilient

Demonstrate use of scultping techniques in understanding how family systems affect individuals

Explain how to be a better Group Therapy Leader

Identify their countertransference and channel it constructively

Describe how to build resilience through process/therapy groups

Articulate their own personal need to be creative

Explain the ability to name the commonalities required to be creative

List strategies for confronting their own particular blocks to creative endeavors

Identify personal issues that affect our ability to do effective therapy in the group therapy process

Discuss and identify ethical considerations relating to developmental stages within the group process

Explain why intrapsychic and interpersonal exchanges within a psychotherapy group provides support for finding the deeper understanding of an individual's behavior

Identify a better sense of their own internal resiliency

Name the factors going into their avoidance of growth choices

State the consequences to themselves and to others when they surrender to their fears and resistances

Explain when to do a debriefing versus when to apply pressure for the patient to cultivate resilience

Compare and contrast resilience versus strength

Name the four best ways to improve emotional resilience

Apply the research truncated development as it relates to the resilient teenager

Summarize and discuss the complexitites involved in parental decisions to help too little or too much and the potential outcomes of each

Use the knowledge from the group to assist work with families and children facing the struggles associated with parental aiding or truncated development of Self

Identify at least one possible countertransference issue when helping a client towards sexual resilience

Identify a better sense of their own internal resiliency

Name the factors going into their avoidance of growth choices

State the consequences to themselves and to others when they surrender to their fears and resistances

Demonstrate traditional technqiues for accepting limitations or struggles of both therapists and their patients

Demonstrate the use of non-traditional techniques to access and discover strengths of both therapists and patients

Recommend non-traditional techniques to patients for centering and grounding

Define the concept of Radical Acceptance

Identify specific response strategies that work for them

Identify strategies which may be offered to patients/clients

Identify at least one possible countertransference issue when helping a client towards sexual resilience

Define sexual resilience

Discuss obstacles to sexual health

Identify and discuss how sexual "acting-out" and re-enactment trauma can ultimately lead to sexual resilience

Access their own inner metaphors for transformation

Articualte their emotional response to pain, trauma and loss

Understand how participants relate to others in their trauma

Describe resiliency and its antonyms

List ways in which personality characteristics can block resilient responses

Apply understanding of the vicissitudes of resiliency to psychotherapy work

Discuss the meaning of resilience to aging clients

Explain the difference between sex and sexuality

List three levels of hopefulness for those who are aging

Describe their experience of resilience, positive or negative, secondary to interaction with the natural world

Describe psychological aspects of resilience inherent in indeigenous teachings

List ways they can incorporate their learning and experience into their practice of psychotherapy

Identify the issues of his/ her struggle with fathe

Describe examples of received support and supportive feedback. The support and feedback is aimed at diminishing pain

Summarize practical supportive thinking and tools to diminish the negative legacy of father

Objective 1: Delineate the constituents of resiliency in the individual on the affective/emotional, cognitive, neurobiological and spiritual levels

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Objective 2: Determine which forces/variables, from a cultural and archetypal standpoint, do in fact nourish (as well as maintain vs. undermine) resiliency in an individual and stimulate the process of resilience in a community

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Objective 3: Educate the psychotherapist to observe and study the roots of psychological resilience and the individual trait of resiliencey from their origins as constructs in the field of psychology/psychotherapy

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Objective 4: Examine how newer psychological theories may more specifically contribute to an understanding of resilience, including: positive psychology, somatically based treatment approaches, recent neuropsychological findings

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Please answer the following:

Do you believe this activity was appropriate for the scope of your professional activities?

Was the educational content scientifically sound?

If faculty spoke about off-label or investigational uses of a product, was that information disclosed to you?

Was the mode of education effective to learning?

If you answered "No" to any of the above questions, please explain.

Did you perceive any product/service/company/commercial bias in any educational session you attended or materials you received?

If you answered "Yes" to the above question, please detail the situation below (e.g. session title, speaker name):

Were you solicited by sales personnel in an educational room (other areas do not matter) while you attended this educational activity?

If you answered "Yes" to the above question, please explain in detail (e.g. who, when, where):

How much did you learn as a result of this education program?

What specifically did you learn during this activity that you intend to integrate into your practice?

What questions have arisen in your practice for which you need answers/strategies that you can implement?

What patient/client problems or patient/client challenges do you feel you are not able to address appropriately or to your satisfaction?

What problems are your patients/clients communicating to you that need attention or follow up?

Are you interested in basic, intermediate or advanced level trainings?

Basic

Intermediate

Advanced

What barriers might you have that would interfere with implementation of new information learned from this training?

How can this training (the overall meeting) be improved to better impact competence, performance and/or patient/client outcomes?

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