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Paradoxical Agenda-Setting In Action
Powerful Strategies for the Treatment of Depression, Anxiety, Relationship Problems, and Other Clinical Disorders:
An Intensive Two-Day Workshop
David Burns, MD
Earn 13 CE/CME Hours**
In my 35 years of practice, I`ve developed scores of powerful psychotherapy techniques, but one has stood out as extraordinarily important in working with every patient and critically important with more challenging patients who don`t respond to our best efforts to help. I call this technique Paradoxical Agenda-Setting (PAS). PAS goes way beyond setting treatment goals and continues to be of vital importance throughout the course of treatment. In this workshop, I’ll show you exactly how PAS works and how to help patients struggling with depression, anxiety disorders, relationship problems and addictions such as binge eating and drug/alcohol abuse.
What exactly is Paradoxical Agenda-Setting? This is the most difficult part of the workshop to describe – to some extent it must be experienced to be really understood. First, you establish and maintain the deepest possible therapeutic alliance. Then, in the most graphic, pragmatic fashion, you help the client explore the tremendous ambivalence that nearly everyone feels about personal transformation, whether they`re conscious of it or not. This process is the heart of the workshop and is the point where the science and art of psychotherapy come together, where strong, conflicted emotions are frequently expressed, and where the real magic of therapy occurs.
Teaching methods will include lecture, demonstrations, and exercises, but will focus on practical case examples. During the workshop you`ll learn to:
- Pinpoint the 8 most common forms of therapeutic resistance
- Become the “voice” of the patient’s subconscious resistance
- Overcome Outcome Resistance with the Magic Button and Magic Dial techniques
- Defeat Process Resistance with the Gentle Ultimatum and the Paradoxical Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Paradox habits and addictions with the Devil’s Advocate Technique
- Learn the art of acceptance: to “hold with an open hand” (like the Buddah)
- Utilize future relapses as opportunities to maximize clinical gains
Though I`m known primarily as a cognitive therapist, this is not a cognitive therapy workshop. PAS is a fundamental and powerful technique that can easily be integrated with any therapeutic style or orientation. It will help you motivate your most resistant clients, dramatically enhance your clinical effectiveness, and accelerate the recovery process, no matter what your therapeutic orientation may be. PAS is, essentially, psychotherapy on steroids. This is a workshop I`ve been looking forward to presenting for a long time! I hope you can join us!
Learning Objectives
Attend this powerful workshop and enhance your ability to:
- Demonstrate how paradoxical agenda-setting techniques can motivate resistant clients
- Recognize and deal effectively with 8 common forms of resistance
- Utilize paradoxical interventions to help clients change
- Describe how the “art of acceptance” can enhance clinical recovery
- Weave paradox, empathy, and cogitive therapy techniques into a powerful therapeutic alliance
- Employ powerful relapse prevention techniques
- Measure clinical relationship factors on a session-by-session basis
- Discuss how tactics used in the class video presentation worked together to effect dramatic change
Who Should Attend
All mental health professionals, including psychologists, psychiatrists, family physicians, social workers, psychiatric nurses, therapists, alcohol & drug counselors, employee assistance counselors, school counselors, youth workers, sexual abuse counselors, vocational rehabilitation consultants, social service co-ordinators, street workers, and crisis counselors who work directly with clients and are seeking practical, proven methods to enhance their therapeutic skills
Dates and Locations
December 3-4, 2010
Crowne Plaza Baltimore
2004 Greenspring Dr,
Timonium, MD 21093
(410)252-7373
January 26-27 2011
Heritage Hall at Beth Jacob
1855 La Vista Rd. NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
(404) 633-0551Â Â Â Â
January 28-29, 2011
Holiday Inn Brownstone Hotel
1707 Hillsborough St.
Raleigh, NC 27605
(919) 828-0811
Registration Information
$279 Early registration (sent 14 days prior to workshop)
$299 Regular registration (on-site reg. is
$319 Onsite registration (space available)
Register by phone at 800-258-8411, or register online ($10 discount) on the Workshop Page
Workshop Aides
Workshop aides are expected to arrive early, and help out during the workshop with registration, logistics, book sales, similar tasks. In return they receive a substantial workshop discount. Generally, 4-5 aides are required per workshop, but this number can vary, depending on attendance and various other factors.
If you would like to be considered for one of the workshop aide positions and receive a tuition discount, please email staff@iahb.org. Let us know why you’d like to be an aide, and whether you’ve had any experience running or assisting with training events, or with on-site sales at such events.. We’ll request additional information when we contact you.
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