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Whole Psychiatry: Alternatives to Conventional Psychopharmacology with Robert Hedaya
Meds: Myths and Realities: NP0035 – Session 4
Is psychopharmacology is a 'go-to' in your practice? Join Robert Hedaya as he discusses how to treat the bodily systems that underlay many mental health issues while avoiding medication. After the session, please let us know what you think. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org.Tough Customers: Is It Them or Us?
By Rich Simon As therapists, many of us practice in two different worlds. In the first, we see polite, well-behaved, articulate clients with solid values. They engage fully in therapy, talk cogently about their problems, listen attentively to our responses, make reasonably good-faith efforts to follow our suggestions, and sooner or later get better. No wonder we genuinely like these people! Does This Kid Need Medication? with Ron Taffel
Meds: Myths and Realities: NP0035 – Session 3
Do you feel like you could be a more effective therapist with your younger clients? Do you find it hard to determine when interventions--psychological and pharmacological--might be needed? Join Ron Taffel and learn to identify key diagnostic signs that indicate medications could be helpful when dealing with depression, anxiety, AD/HD, and affective disorders. After the session, please let us know what you think. If you ever have any technical questions or issues, please feel free to email support@psychotherapynetworker.org.
Saturday Workshops
403 503 “A Day in the Life” Part 1 & Part 2: Therapy That Fits the New Facts of Adolescence
Ron Taffel
Saturday All-Day: Two Part
Most adults, including many therapists, don’t understand just how profoundly different the lives of kids today are from what they experienced growing up. . .
The bad news includes an unprecedented peer cruelty that starts at younger ages than ever before; the ever-earlier pressures to use and/or abuse of drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes; an omnipresent online existence that numbs the capacity for genuine feeling; and the instability of love/sexual relationships that, due to obsessive Internet use, are often played out in public. In the first part of this workshop, you’ll get an unusually close-up view of the strange new world of kids and their families. In the afternoon, we’ll explore the ways in which therapists have to change--putting aside professional and clinical formulas, daring to be real people themselves, communicating with kids and their families between sessions, using dramatic interventions--to have any real impact on their jaded, distracted young clients. (This session will continue with Workshop 503.)
Ron Taffel, Ph.D., is the chairman of the board of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York. He’s the author of The Second Family, a guide to raising adolescents. His latest book is Childhood Unbound: Saving Our Kids’ Best Selves.
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