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  • Friday, December 15, 2023
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
    Therapy Devices

    Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD – The Milton H. Erickson Foundation

    Keynote and Closing Remarks

    Keynote

  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
    Author's Hour - Book Signing
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
    Exhibit Hall Break
  • 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Fast, Effective Treatment for Social Anxiety Disorder

    Presenter: David D. Burns, MD – Stanford Medical School

    Presenter: Jill Levitt, PhD – Director of Training, Feeling Good Institute

    In this workshop, Drs. David Burns and Jill Levitt will illustrate powerful techniques to heal your social anxiety patients, and yourself as well! You’ll learn how to
    • Reduce patient resistance to Interpersonal Exposure Techniques
    • Identify and smash the distorted thoughts that trigger social anxiety
    • Modify the Self-Defeating Beliefs that trigger social anxiety
    • Use mind-blowing Interpersonal Exposure Techniques such as
    o Rejection Practice
    o Self-Disclosure
    o Shame-Attacking Exercises
    o And more

    Workshop

  • 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Feedback Informed Treatment: A Pantheorectical, Evidence based Approach for Improving Outcomes

    Presenter: Scott D. Miller, PhD – International Center for Clinical Excellence

    It’s not a pretty picture. Available evidence indicates that the effectiveness of psychotherapy has not improved despite 100 years of theorizing and research. What would help? Not learning a new model of therapy or the “latest” so-called “evidence-based” treatment approach. And no, not attending another CEU event or sorting through that stack of research journals by your desk. A simple, valid, and reliable alternative exists for maximizing the effectiveness and efficiency of treatment based on using ongoing feedback to empirically tailor services to the individual client needs and characteristics. Research from multiple randomized clinical trials documents that this simple, transtheoretical approach as much as doubles the effectiveness of treatment while simultaneously reducing costs, drop-out rates and deterioration.

    Workshop

  • 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Motivational Interviewing

    Presenter: William R. Miller, PhD – University of New Mexico

    Motivational interviewing (MI) is a particular way of talking with people about change to strengthen their own motivation and commitment. With over 2,000 controlled trials worldwide, its applications have spread far beyond psychotherapy into corrections, education, health promotion, leadership and management, medical care, social work, and sports. Based on the 2023 4th edition of their text, Bill Miller will illustrate after 40 years of research the “simplicity beyond complexity” of MI through explanation, demonstration and experiential practice of some foundational clinical skills.


    Workshop

  • 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Transforming Limiting Beliefs

    Presenter: Robert B. Dilts – NLP University

    Beliefs are a type of “neurolinguistic program” that can exert a very powerful force on our behavior. Our beliefs about ourselves and what is possible in the world around us greatly impact our capacity for change and healing. Limiting beliefs, and “thought viruses,” can act like an invisible force that interfere with our capacity to be resourceful and trap us in unhealthy patterns of behavior. Empowering beliefs help us to identify and take best advantage of potential opportunities. This workshop will explore how to identify and transform limiting beliefs by uncovering their deeper structure, identifying the positive purpose they serve and introducing new perspectives that “reprogram” the limiting belief to a more productive and ecological form.

    Workshop

  • 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Treating Affair Couples

    Presenter: John and Julie Gottman, PhD – The Gottman Institute

    Co-Presenter: Taylor Irvine, PhD, LMHC, NCC – Nova Southeastern University

    Co-Presenter: Paul Peluso, LMHC, LMFT – Florida Atlantic University

    Infidelity remains one of the most frequent presenting problems in couple therapy. Yet, despite infidelity's prevalence, clinicians have continually rated infidelity as one of the most challenging issues to address and the one they feel least prepared to treat for decades. This gap is attributable to a lack of available research and education to treat infidelity-related issues, facilitating clinician challenges including but not limited to countertransference, difficulty navigating triangulation, and heightened emotional reactivity. Therefore, clinicians must be equipped to effectively conceptualize and treat infidelity to help guide couples through the affair recovery process. This presentation will review the current infidelity literature, spotlighting current prevalence rates, consequences, and risk factors of affairs. The presenters will also outline a Gottman Method Couples Therapy blueprint for effectively working with couples dealing with an affair, drawing from findings from a recent randomized control trial validating Gottman Method as an evidence-based treatment for infidelity. Finally, this presentation aims to increase clinician confidence in treating infidelity by engaging attendees through interactive case studies, noting strategies for best practice.

    Workshop

  • 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
    Exhibit Hall Break
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
    Positive Psychology and Beyond

    Keynote Speaker: Martin Seligman, PhD – University of Pennsylvania

    More session details TBA

    Keynote

  • 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM
    Exhibit Hall Break & Passport to Prizes Drawing
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
    Addressing Multiple Levels of Change

    Presenter: Robert B. Dilts – NLP University

    Any system of activity is a subsystem embedded inside of another system, which is embedded inside of another system, and so on. This kind of relationship between systems produces different levels of processes that create different types and levels of impact. According to the NeuroLogical Levels model, the life of people in any system, and indeed, the life of the system itself, can be described and understood on a number of different levels: environment, behavior, capabilities, values and beliefs, identity and purpose. Each level of change involves different dynamics and produces a different type and degree of influence. This presentation will explore the significance of each of these levels in supporting clients to create meaningful and sustainable change.

    Clinical Demo

  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
    Better Results through Deliberate Practice

    Presenter: Scott D. Miller, PhD – International Center for Clinical Excellence

    Despite widespread belief to the contrary, the evidence shows clinicians do not improve with experience or training. One professional development activity shows promise: deliberate practice. In two recent books -- "Better Results" and "The Field Guide to Better Results -- Scott Miller and colleagues reviewed the science and described the steps. In this clinical demonstratrion, audience members will engage in a structured, eivdence-based deliberate practice exercise documented to improve a key facilitative interpersonal skill.

    Clinical Demo

  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
    Conversation Hour w/ John and Julie Gottman

    Presenter: John and Julie Gottman, PhD – The Gottman Institute

    Join in a conversation hour with Drs. John and Julie Gottman, discussing topics from the keynote session: Infidelity.

    Conversation Hour

  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
    Conversation Hour w/ Martin Seligman

    Presenter: Martin Seligman, PhD – University of Pennsylvania

    Join in a conversation hour with Dr. Seligman, discussing topics from the keynote session: Coaching and/or Psychotherapy: A Birdseye View.

    Conversation Hour

  • 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM
    Break
  • 4:50 PM – 5:50 PM
    Clinical Demo using Couples Assessment to Plan Targeted Treatment

    Presenter: Ellyn Bader, PhD – The Couples Institute

    When couples come to therapy, a lot is happening quickly. How do you make sense of the hostility, pain and urgent distress? Ellyn will demonstrate powerful questions and interventions you can use in first sessions to develop a treatment plan that offers hope.

    Clinical Demo

  • 4:50 PM – 5:50 PM
    Effective Psychotherapists

    Presenter: William R. Miller, PhD – University of New Mexico

    Presenter: Scott D. Miller, PhD – International Center for Clinical Excellence

    It’s a subject the field has studiously avoided: that some therapists are consistently more effective than others. Instead, clinicians have been promised that improved effectiveness can be found in mastering one method or another. What actually differentiates the best from the rest? Based on a thorough analysis of 70 years of psychotherapy research, Bill Miller will explain eight characteristics of providers who deliver significantly better (or worse) outcomes relative to their peers. These attributes are reliably measurable from observation of practice and typically account for more variance in client outcomes than do particular treatment techniques that are offered. Scott Miller will review research documenting how the characteristics of the most effective providers are acquired – an activity known as deliberate practice. Together, research in these two areas has important implications for training and professional development as well as hiring and retraining of mental health practitioners.

    Great Conversation

  • 4:50 PM – 5:50 PM
    Process Based Empirical Case Formulation

    Presenter: Steven C. Hayes, PhD – University of Nevada, Reno

    In this demonstration I will show how high temporal density idiographic information on clients can now be combined into an empirical case formation. With only minimal prior contact I will reveal what the data suggest for a volunteer and will applied specific evidence-based intervention kernels based on these empirical algorithms.

    Clinical Demo

  • 4:50 PM – 5:50 PM
    Supervision

    Presenter: Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP – Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology

    This conversation will address the art and science of clinical supervision, framing it as a developmental process and identifying recurring themes and controversies in the literature on the topic.

    Great Conversation

  • 4:50 PM – 5:50 PM
    Survivors Responses to Growing up with Abandonment

    Presenter: Claudia A. Black, PhD – The Meadows

    To grow up in an impaired family system and experience various forms of abandonment leave a legacy of internalized toxic shame. Dr. Black will describe the under pinning's and consequences to shame based beliefs that fuel self defeating behaviors.

    Speech

  • 5:50 PM – 6:00 PM
    Break
  • 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
    Mozart and the Art of Listening

    Keynote Speaker: Rob Kapilow – G. Schirmer, Norton/Liveright

    At the heart of psychotherapy is the idea that listening to someone is an inherently healing act. Can an understanding of the grammar of music help us better understand the grammar of how patients communicate? Can Mozart help transform how we listen? Join NPR and PBS conductor/composer/author Rob Kapilow for a unique exploration inside the language of music to see if it can help us learn to listen like Mozart.

    Keynote