Psychotherapy for the elderly: A hands on workshop

Joel Sadavoy¹, Ken Laidlaw², Pirjo Juhela³

¹Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; ³Trauma Therapy Centre, Helsinki, Finland

This workshop will be structured to provide a group-based hands on participatory learning experience for multidisciplinary practitioners treating the elderly with psychotherapy. The goal is to provide participants with a relaxed collegial learning environment to work on developing models for understanding and formulating complex clinical cases and translating formulation into practical intervention and treatment techniques.

The workshop will have 4 components: 1) a brief didactic introduction to formulation using CBT and psychodynamic principles; 2) case presentation(s) by group participants accompanied by formulation exercises using CBT and psychodynamic-based workbooks 3) discussion of techniques of intervention arising out of the formulation focused on application of 3 approaches: CBT, psychodynamically informed interventions and use of somatosensory methods and balance training as components of psychotherapeutic intervention. 4) Open discussion and debate.

Leaning Objectives: At the completion of the workshop participants will have:

1. 1. learned a systematic approach to organizing clinical history into a well framed formulation using both CBT and psychodynamic theoretical models

2. 2. practiced the hands on application of formulation skills on cases presented by participants

3. 3. developed skills in creating a practical, integrated psychotherapy treatment plan arising out of the formulations utilizing 3 modes of intervention.

Dr Ken Laidlaw

Approaches to formulation: A CBT perspective

Dr Joel Sadavoy

Approaches to formulation: A psychodynamic perspective

Ken Laidlaw, Joel Sadavoy, Pirjo Juhela

Integrated practical approaches to psychotherapy: Case based interventions.