3-year CORE ISTDP Basic Course
- It is a course officially registered by the international organization IEDTA which sets standards for the training of ISTDP psychotherapists
- Meets the criteria for an IEDTA certified course
- Its participants are reported to IEDTA and receive a certificate endorsed by IEDTA
- Up to 25% of the course classes are taught by recognized international supervisors from all over the world
- Participants have the opportunity to learn in close, individual contact with supervisors in an intimate group of 7-8 people
- It is translated simultaneously in both directions
- Provides supervision between meetings by pairs of certified ISTDP psychotherapists studying in the assistantship course
- Provides the opportunity to participate in educational ISTDP- PL community meetings
Basic Training Objective:
- To provide thorough education in ISTDP – Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy – EDT – experiential dynamic therapy
- Training psychotherapists to achieve excellence in the assessment and use of ISTDP – EDT in a diverse patient population
- Provide participants with the most current information on ISTDP – EDT theory, clinical applications and research
- Welcoming participants to an international community of ISTDP psychotherapists that values dialogue and collaboration between different formats of experiential (experience-oriented) therapies
- Cultivate a collegial, professional, respectful environment that encourages collaboration and learning
Learning format
- Direct contact between the hosts and participants
- Presentation of video recordings of work with patients by teachers and supervisors
- Role- playing and other active learning techniques
- Supervision of individual work with patients in a supervision group
- Interactive lectures
Course programme
- The spectrum of structural neurosis and the patient’s location on the spectrum
- Separating the patient’s healthy ego from the pathological parts of the superego
- Working with the patient in the Triangle of People and the Triangle of Conflict
- Central dynamic sequence
- Establishing and maintaining a conscious and unconscious therapeutic/working alliance
- Assessment and working with „front door and basement door” defenses (defenses against contact/emotional closeness with the therapist and against experiencing feelings)
- Assessment of the patient’s anxiety regulation (pathways and patterns of anxiety regulation, healthy and unhealthy regulation)
- Restructuring the adaptability of the patient’s ego
- Assessing the patient’s regulation of emotions
- Exploring the patient’s unconsciousness, experiencing impulses and feelings
- Portraying and visualizing the patient’s impulse, guilt, grief, and access to past trauma
- Working and making connections in the Triangle of People
- Completion phase of therapeutic work and sessions after completion
Theoretical part
- History of ISTDP and overview of current EDT models
- Case conceptualization and treatment planning
- The Triangle of Conflict and the Triangle of People
- How to nurture a therapeutic/working alliance
- Recognition of defenses and related interventions
- Anxiety recognition and related interventions
- Recognition of feelings and related interventions
- Reworking: working with the patient after initial unconscious breakthroughs
- End of job and follow-up sessions – when completed
- ISTDP research
Practical part
- Review and analysis of videotaped sessions conducted by certified supervisors and IEDTA teachers
- Review and supervision of video excerpts from psychotherapy sessions conducted by participants
- Practical work with a psychotherapeutic protocol – Josette ten Have-de Labije’s Road Map to the Unconscious – while analyzing recordings.
- Gradual transition from theoretical training and analysis of video excerpts of the supervisor’s work to supervision of participants’ video materials
- Work on a personal and group level with a small group of participants working together
- Role-playing and other active learning techniques
- Each participant has access to a recording of their supervision of work with patients
- Each supervised patient is analyzed on the supervision form and on this basis a case report is formulated for the course credit
- Supervision support between meetings
- Participate in monthly community meetings moderated by the Polish ISTDP-PL association during which learning material is presented and patient work is supervised
Criteria for the 3-year CORE ISTDP Basic Course
- Candidates must be licensed to work in the mental health field at the time they begin the course or be in the process of such an educational process at a level that allows them to work with patients
- During the first year, participants present recorded audio-video sessions of their work with patients
- Over the course of 3 years, each participant supervises 12 recordings of his or her therapeutic work during the course and approximately 3-6 recordings during assistant supervision
- At least 50 of the didactic sessions are taught by a certified IEDTA teacher, the remainder may be taught by experienced ISTDP psychotherapists – assistants under the supervision of a supervisor
- At least 75% of group supervision is conducted by an IEDTA certified supervisor
List of certified core courses around the world
List of certified core courses taught by the ISTDP Center:
Course conducted by Dr. Joanna Duchniewicz
Prices
The total cost of the course is 36 000 PLN in total payable in installments.
CORE ISTDP participants are reimbursed 30% of the cost of the introductory course
account number for payments: Bank Pekao 91124063481111001053587179