The Greater Philadelphia Society
of Clinical Hypnosis
A Component Section of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis

Jointly Sponsored By:

The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Education and Research Foundation,
The Greater Philadelphia Society of Clinical Hypnosis,
and Margolis Berman Byrne Health Psychology, P.C.

MEETING: Saturday, November 3, 2007

Time: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
6 CE Credits

AFFECT REGULATION TOOLS:
PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR INDIVIDUAL
AND RELATIONSHIP THERAPY

Presented by
Carolyn Daitch, Ph.D., BCETS
Director of the Center for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Farmington Hills, Mich.


Faculty | Objectives | Schedule | Location | Registration


Workshop Description:

This workshop offers an affect regulation toolbox of techniques that incorporate hypnosis and mindfulness. With the right tools, therapists can help highly reactive patients stay calm in stressful situations. Patients who are easily triggered can learn to tone down and manage their emotional responses. Therapists can dip into this toolbox for practial and effective interventions that can help patients mitigate anxiety, stress, psychosomatic symptoms and navigate conflicted relationships with spouses, adult children and co-workers.

Mastery and maintenance of affect regulation are often impeded by the individual’s habitual knee-jerk response to frustration, perceived threats or environmental stressors. In this workshop you will learn why alternative approaches to traditional talk therapy, such as hypnotic interventions, can be ore effective in targeting the demands of a complex psychophysiological system. The workshop focuses on identifying and interrupting over-reactive responses through cognitive or emotional cues and initiating "time out" periods for self-soothing. The workshop also teaches therapists to transfer therapeutic learning through easy-to-master at-home practice sessions. While skilled therapists can facilitate behavior modification in the contained structure of the therapy setting, the patient’s responses are often not sustained outside the office.

The affect regulation tools presented in this workshop include:
  1. Mindfulness – Developing the skill of detached observation so as to become objectively aware of a feeling as it occurs.
  2. Sensory awareness and cues – Tuning into the body’s reactions to stress and learning how to regulate and modulate these reactions.
  3. Impulse control – Learning how to control instant reactions or impulses.
  4. Coexisting affective states – Recognizing the ability to have two conflicting feelings or thoughts at the same time.
  5. Resource utilization – Being able to access internal or external resources – such as positive memories, real or imagined support figures, comforting, safe places, and parts of the self; and 6) Positive affect development – Choosing positive affective states.
Workshop Faculty:
  • Dr. Carolyn Daitch is a licensed psychologist and Director of the Center for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Dr. Daitch is a certified and approved ASCH consultant and certified Imago Relationship therapist. She consults for the University of Michigan’s program for Integrative Medicine and frequently presents to psychotherapists, health professionals, as well as to medical students at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University.
  • Daitch draws on her 25 years of clinical experience as a practitioner to present 32 hypnotic tools in her book, Affect Regulation Toolbox, a professional guide to practical focusing techniques. She has also developed several self-hypnosis CD programs.

  • Dr. Daitch received a special achievement award from the Michigan Society of Clinical Hypnosis for "outstanding clinical and teaching contributions in the field of hypnosis and psychology and the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis President’s award for "teaching, writing and clinical wisdom" and "for always taking her work seriously and herself lightly".
Learning Objectives:

Participants shall, upon completion of the workshop, be able to:
  1. Give two examples of affect dysregulation and state the effect on functioning.
  2. Describe two hypnotic techniques that promote self-regulation.
  3. Describe two specific interventions for patients with anxietiy disorders.
  4. Utilize one affect regulation technique for diminishing conflicts in relationships.
  5. Utilize a brief hypnotic intervention that will diminish physiological arousal, moving clients from reaction to reflection.
Workshop Schedule
  8:30   Coffee, Registration
  9:00   Over-reactivity: its effect on functioning and the need for affect regulation skills
  9:15   Affect regulation and the emotional brain
  9:30   Introduction to the Affect Regulation Tool Box
10:30   Break
10:45   Applications with anxiety disorders
12:00   Lunch (provided)
  1:00   Affect regulation and relationship therapy. Part I: Applications in couples’ therapy
  2:30   Break
  2:45   Affect regulation and relationship therapy. Part II. Applications to other relationships (eg. parent/child, siblings                and friendships)
  3:45   Roadblocks and challenges
  4:00   Closing and Evaluation
  4:30   Workshop Adjourns
Target Audience: Physicians, psychologists, clinical social workers, nurse practitioners, nurses, marriage and family therapists, and other qualified health care providers interested in providing effective and responsible hypnosis treatment for the dissociative patient.

Workshop Location:
Solis-Cohen Auditorium, Alumni Hall,
Thomas Jefferson University
1020 Locust Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(www.jeffersonhospital.org for directions)

Temperatures can vary and be out of our control.
We suggest that you dress in comfortable business-casual attire and in layers.

Psychology Continuing Education: Margolis Berman Byrne Health Psychology, P.C. (MBB) participated in the planning and implementation of this workshop. MBB is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. MBB maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This program is offered for 6 CE hours for psychologists. No credit is awarded for partial attendance.

Clinical Social Worker Continuing Education: Workshop participants will have to apply Workshop participants will have to apply individually to the PA State Board of Social Workers for 6 CE credits.

Certificates of attendance will be mailed following completion of the workshop.

Americans with Disabilities Act / Special Needs:

The Greater Philadelphia Society of Clinical Hypnosis, the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Education and Research Foundation, and Margolis Berman Byrne Health Psychology, P.C. are committed to equality of educational opportunity and do not discriminate against applicants, students, or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veterans status, or sexual orientation. If you require reasonable accommodations for a disability in order to participate fully in this continuing education activity, you must call GPSCH: 610-527-3710 or ASCH-ERF: 630-980-4740 or attach a note to your registration form no later than October 19, 2007.
Registration
Refund Policy:

Registration fees may be refunded, less a $50 administrative fee, for participant cancellations received by October 26, 2007. No participant refunds will be issued for cancellations received after October 26, 2007.

For additional information, contact:
Subha Robinson
GPSCH Administrative Director
1130 Robin Road
Gladwyne, PA 19035
Telephone: 610-527-3710
E-Mail: gpschsubharobinson@comcast.net
ASCH-ERF Telephone: 630-980-4740

Registration form, payment information, mailing instructions plus full brochure available here Word Document