The annual conference to promote integration in psychotherapy in Israel

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For the 2023 Annual Conference for the Advancement of Integration in Psychotherapy

How to navigate through the thicket?

Therapeutic decision-making as a central challenge in integration-oriented psychotherapy

To be held on Thursday-Friday, March 16-17, 2023

Thursday, 16.03.23 (Zoom)

Cost for professionals 280 NIS | Cost for interns and students 220 NIS

After the success of the first conference, which we held last year, we are happy and excited to invite you to participate in the annual conference for the promotion of the integration of psychotherapy, which will be held on Thursday, March 16th in the afternoon in an online format, and on Friday, March 17th, at the Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic Campus.

Therapists make various decisions regarding treatment in many ways, both conscious and unconscious.
The decisions concern setting, key themes, interventions, timing, and more. Various factors
Influence the decision-making process, such as the type of distress expressed by the patient, the model
Preferred treatments, goals of treatment, attitudes and values of the therapist, transference relationships, patient defenses, stage in treatment and duration of treatment.
An integrative therapeutic stance sharpens the challenge of decision-making, due to the theoretical and practical multiplicity to which the therapist is exposed. How to navigate between the different approaches? What is the desired mix of theories? Is there a map that can assist in the complex task of navigation?

At the conference we will address the following issues:

• Models that help therapists make therapeutic decisions.

• Therapeutic decision-making framework and key navigation questions.

• Variables that influence decision-making, including:
  The symptom(s), the therapeutic relationship, emotions, insights into the patient's internal dynamics, the patient's and therapist's preferences, and more.

• Key 'clues' as a basis for therapeutic decisions.

• The impact of psychotherapy research on decision-making processes.

• Case presentations, through which the above issues will be demonstrated.

your,
Conference Steering Committee: Dr. Ron Nissim (Conference Chair), Ms. Naama Greenwald, Dr. Sharon Ziv
Beiman, Dr. Lihi Hamel Belson, Ms. Osnat Cohen-Ganor, Dr. Ruth Messer-Koitzky, Dr. Aluma Reis.

Planning, production and administration: Reut Tiar-Kremer and the Narshahim team