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How to navigate the tangle? Therapeutic decision-making as a central challenge in integration-oriented psychotherapy

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 a team of interpreters

The Making Integration Forum at the Mifrashim Institute is pleased to invite you to the annual conference for the promotion of integration in psychotherapy for 2023 on the topic:


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

On Thursday, 16.03.23 (on Zoom) and Friday, 17.03.23 (on the campus of the Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College, 10 Heber Leumim St., Jaffa)




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

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