Sometimes moving together: A relational perspective on the therapeutic relationship and decision-making in integration-based therapy.
Moderator
Dr. Lehi Belson Hamel and Dr. Dana Moore
What's in the workshop?
In this workshop, we will discuss the therapeutic relationship, the information it holds, the opportunities and moments of encounter it creates, as a basis for thinking about types of interventions in integration-based therapy.
The relational position in psychoanalysis treats the psyche as dyadic and interactive by nature. This approach emphasizes that the distresses for which people come to therapy were created within relationships, and therefore can change within the context of relationships, through joint creation and transformation. The therapeutic relationship, therefore, constitutes a significant and powerful site of inquiry, and also the "engine" that drives the processes of change in therapy. However, this position is not necessarily directed towards one therapeutic intervention or another.
Integration-based approaches offer various intervention options, the goal of which is to help the patient acquire new ways of looking at things and expand her range of choices in her life. They set relevant criteria that will help to examine which intervention is appropriate, depending on the patient's request, the reason for their referral, their personality structure, their history, their situation in life, their verbal style, and the therapeutic relationship.
In the workshop, we will focus on listening to the unique therapeutic relationship that is created in the room, its characteristics and the subtle changes that occur in it. We will talk about cases, examples and moments we have with our patients in the treatment room. We will try to examine how this type of listening can help us choose the appropriate methods of intervention and anticipate the impact of different steps.
Workshop objectives:
Expanding participants' observation and thinking about the contribution of the therapeutic relationship to decision-making in integration-based psychotherapy.
We will seek to increase our ability to meet and get to know ourselves as therapists in connection with different patients, about the unique quality that exists at different moments and junctures in treatment.
Learning methods:
Initial illustration through the presentation of a therapeutic example, theoretical introduction and the possibilities that relational language opens up to us in the world of integration in psychotherapy, discussion of treatment cases.
About the moderator
Dr. Lihi Belson-Hamel - Specialist clinical psychologist and instructor. Lecturer, instructor and coordinator of the adult track in the 'Ogen' program, at the 'Nafshim' School of Psychotherapy. Member and instructor of the 'Shiach' group - Institute for Relational Psychotherapy. Treats youth and adults in a private clinic in Tel Aviv. Engages in models of integration between psychodynamic-relational therapy and CBT; writes, teaches and instructs on this subject.
Dr. Dana Mor - Specialist clinical psychologist and instructor. Member and instructor of the 'Shiach' group, Institute for Relational Psychotherapy. Lecturer in the psychotherapy program at the 'Magid' Institute and at the School of Psychotherapy of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. Treats adults in a private clinic in Tel Aviv.