Short Course
The Impact of Countertransference in Couples Therapy
with Tybe Diamond, MSW, BCD
Dates: 4 sessions on Friday's from 3-5pm starting March 25, 2011 and continuing weekly through April 15, 2011
Location: 4707 Connecticut Ave., Suite 205, Washington, DC 20008
Course Description:
This short course will use a seminar approach to discuss countertransference issues in working with couples for use as a tool in developing insight into the dynamics of the couple. The course will focus on how countertransference evokes awareness of the therapist's own internal issues and how processing and utilizing this information is central to determining treatment outcome. The course will explore the use of countertransference material as the basis for understanding each partner's unconscious communications of impulses, affects, fantasies and conflicts that determine how we internally hold each partner and the couple in our minds during the therapeutic encounter. The use of countertransference in this way leads to the therapist's dynamic formulation of the couple's relationship and is the path toward intimacy between partners.
At the conclusion of the short course, the participants in this seminar will:
- Describe how the therapist holds the primary resistance to understanding and how to effectively utilize this awareness.
- Recognize that how the therapist attends to and uses countertransference has enormous therapeutic impact on the therapeutic encounter and treatment outcome.
- Explain how the therapist is able to model intimate interactions during the therapy sessions.
- Describe the different meanings currently attached to the concept of countertransference.
- Assess the narccistic vulnerability of each partner and demonstrate how this determines how you comment or not on your countertransference.
- Discuss the factors in the therapeutic milieu that lead to therapist burnout.
- Discuss how burnout symptoms and secondary trauma lead to the depletion of the therapist's capacity to be effective.
- Discuss strategies in professional and personal life that can be used to diminish trauma symptoms.
Faculty
Tybe Diamond, MSW, BCD, has been in practice for 37 years in NW DC, offering treatment, consultation and supervision. She is a faculty member of the Couples Training Program, Director of the Center for the Study of Aging at the Washington School of Psychiatry and Principal of Tybe Diamond & Associates, a consulting group focused on organizational development, group dynamics, employee coaching and executive leadership.
Registration
Please fill out the registration form and make your check payable to ICP&P and send to ICP&P, 4601 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 8, Washington, DC 20008.
Fees
ICP&P Member $160.00
Non Member $240.00
Continuing Education Credit
The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis (ICP&P) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. ICP&P is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. ICP&P is approved by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners to offer Category I continuing education credit. Because ICP&P has approval from the Maryland Board, CE credits hours awarded by ICP&P may also be claimed by social workers licensed in Virginia and the District of Columbia. These continuing education credits meet the ANCC approval standards for nurses and the approved standards for marriage & family therapists. Attendees from the above professional groups will earn 8 CE credits for attending the conference. Full attendance is required to receive the designated CE credit. ICP&P is accredited by MedChi, the Maryland State Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. ICP&P designates this educational activity for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Neither ICP&P nor the presenter has any relevant financial relationship with any commercial interests.
For more information, call 202-686-9300, ext. 5