How do we optimize psychotherapy for each individual client?
How can we better personalize our therapeutic relationships and interventions?
Please join us at the Psychotherapy Program - UBC Department of Psychiatry, for a day of learning and professional development regarding the tailoring of psychotherapy to individuals' unique concerns, needs, and contexts. These presentations -- including an interactive case formulation workshop -- will draw on contemporary empirical research, theory, and clinical expertise to highlight considerations and strategies for enhancing personalized therapeutic responsiveness.
Program:
8:30am Registration
8:45am Opening remarks
9:00am The client’s agentic work - David Kealy
9:45am Understanding the client’s pathogenic beliefs - Camilla Mannocchi
10:15am Coffee break
10:45am Clinical challenges of interpersonal guilt - Jessica Leonardi
11:15am Case formulation workshop - David Kealy
12:00pm Lunch (consider nearby UBC restaurants)
1:15pm Working with the client’s testing strategies - Camilla Mannocchi
2:00pm Dynamic relational therapy for perfectionism - Paul Hewitt
3:00pm Discussion panel
3:25pm Closing remarks
Paul Hewitt, PhD, R.Psych is a Professor in the UBC Department of Psychology and Affiliate Member of the Department of Psychiatry. He is a leading researcher on perfectionism and its treatment, and has been recognized for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science by the Canadian Psychological Association. Dr. Hewitt also maintains a private practice in psychotherapy.
Camilla Mannocchi, PsyD is a psychologist and psychotherapist member of the Control-Mastery Theory Italian Group. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the Sapienza University of Rome investigating patients’ testing processes in psychotherapy, while maintaining a psychotherapy practice.
Jessica Leonardi, PsyD is a psychotherapist and member of the Control-Mastery Theory Italian Group. Her research, part of a PhD at the Sapienza University of Rome, is focused on understanding and addressing interpersonal guilt. She also maintains a psychotherapy practice.
David Kealy, PhD, RSW is an Associate Professor in the Psychotherapy Program at the UBC Department of Psychiatry. He teaches and conducts research on psychotherapy process and identity related mental health difficulties, while maintaining a private practice in psychotherapy.
The Identity and Psychotherapy Process Lab is situated within the Psychotherapy Program in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia. Our work is aimed at (1) understanding identity and personality––including emotional, interpersonal, and identity-related difficulties––and (2) investigating the effects and mechanisms of psychotherapy. By focusing on these objectives, we hope to contribute to enhanced therapeutic responsiveness and emotional wellbeing.
The mandate of the Psychotherapy Program to provide psychotherapy training to UBC psychiatry residents, conduct research on psychotherapy and psychotherapy-related topics, and serve as a resource for clinicians in the community. Program members are engaged in teaching, research, and clinical activities in many clinics, hospitals, and private offices in the Greater Vancouver area and throughout the province of BC. The Program promotes psychotherapy across a range of modalities, structures, and theoretical orientations.
We gratefully acknowledge that our work is conducted on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
