Upcoming Courses

27th Annual Summer Seminars: The Widening Scope of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Importance for Clinical Practice

Robert M. Goisman, MD, Matcheri S. Keshavan, MD

August 1, 2016 – August 5, 2016 | North Falmouth, MA | Sea Crest Beach Hotel More Information

The influence of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is widening as the importance of cost-effective, empirically validated, shorter-term treatment increases. From its beginnings as a treatment for specific phobias, CBT is now indicated as primary or adjunctive treatment for a wide range of mood, anxiety, and psychotic disorders. Topics to be covered in this course will include a brief review of the development of behavioral and cognitive treatments; anxiety disorders, including panic, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder; mood disorders; social skills training and cognitive restructuring for psychotic disorders; the relationship of CBT to psychodynamic psychotherapy; and principles underlying the development of cognitive remediation for schizophrenia, mood disorders, ADHD, mild cognitive impairments, and autism. We will review efficacy data and therapeutic mechanisms for cognitive remediation approaches and discuss cognitive therapy approaches for bipolar disorder and for the treatment of delusions, hallucinations, and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. We will in part utilize a case presentation format, in which a case illustrating the subject matter of that morning will be presented and then discussed using the principles just developed. Live role-playing exercises will also be used in order to illustrate the application of social skills training principles and methods for induction of the relaxation response. Participants will be invited to present their own cases for consultation.

This course is designed so that participants will be able to:
  • Utilize specific techniques for anxiety reduction in patients
    with anxiety disorders;
  • Evaluate specific CBT interventions used in panic disorder,
    obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, and PTSD;
  • Apply cognitive and behavioral therapy methods in the treatment of patients with unipolar depression and with bipolar disorder;
  • Review social skills training and cognitive restructuring as they apply to the serious and persistently mentally ill;
  • Determine areas of convergence as well as divergence in the relationship between CBT and psychodynamic psychotherapy;
  • Review approaches to cognitive remediation as they apply to the serious and persistently mentally ill, and what we know about the efficacy of these interventions.

Additional Information

Monday, August 1, 2016
Robert M. Goisman, MD

8:30-9:00 AM

Registration

9:00-10:15 AM

Learning Theory and Anxiety Disorders I: brief overview of cognitive and behavioral theory; Q&A.

10:15-10:30 AM

Continental Coffee Break

10:30-12:15 PM

Case I; the relaxation response and mindfulness meditation; the principle of exposure; making anxiety hierarchies.

Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Robert M. Goisman, MD

9:00-10:15 AM

Anxiety Disorders II: Applications to phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder; cognitive-behavioral treatment of panic attacks; drug and non-drug treatments; safety behaviors. Q&A.

10:15-10:30 AM

Continental Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:15 PM

Anxiety Disorders III: Case II; approaches to post-traumatic stress disorder; exposure treatments in PTSD; stress inoculation.

Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Robert M. Goisman, MD

9:00-10:15 AM

Mood Disorders I: Case III; the cognitive triad; schemas and automatic thoughts; behavioral approaches and other homework tasks; Q&A.

10:15-10:30 AM

Continental Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:15 PM

Mood Disorders II: Daily Record of Dysfunctional Thoughts; collaborative empiricism and hypothesis-testing; other cognitive strategies; indications and limitations; applications to bipolar disorder.

Thursday, August 4, 2016
Robert M. Goisman, MD

9:00-10:15 AM

Cognitive Remediation I: Principles. Q&A

10:15-10:30 AM

Continental Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:15 PM

Cognitive Remediation II: Techniques and evidence for efficacy.

Friday, August 5, 2016
Matcheri S. Keshavan, MD

9:00-10:15 AM

Psychotic Disorders: social skills training and cognitive restructuring in psychotic disorders; new approaches to negative symptoms. Q&A.

10:15-10:30 AM

Continental Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:15 PM

CBT and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy; the “Common Factors” movement; convergence and divergence with psychodynamic psychotherapy; the “Y-Model”; comparative outcome studies.

12:15 PM

Adjourn

Beth Israel Deaconess Department of Psychiatry Foundation, Inc./Contact Hours: 15

Accreditation:

Physicians This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of pmiCME and The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. pmiCME is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CREDIT DESIGNATION:

Weeklong Seminar: pmiCME designates the live activity for a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada recognizes conferences and workshops held outside of Canada that are developed by a university, academy, hospital, specialty society or college as accredited group learning activities.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ claimed by physicians attending live events certified and organized in the United States for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ can be claimed through the agreement on mutual recognition of credits between UEMS and AMA, considered as being equal to the European Continuous Medical Education Credits(ECMEC©) granted by the UEMS. One AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ is equivalent to one (1) hour of European EACCME Credit (ECMEC©), therefore up to 15 ECMEC© Credits are available. Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Psychologists The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Counselors The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5689. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Social Workers For information on the status of the application to the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, please call 617-754-1265 or email: sjruiz@bidmc.harvard.edu.

This program meet the specifications for the Board of Registration in Nursing (244 CMR)

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Robert M. Goisman, MD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the former Director of Medical Student Education at Massachusetts Mental Health Center. His research interests have included behavioral therapy, anxiety disorders, and psychosocial rehabilitation in chronic mental illness. Dr. Goisman is a past recipient of the Elvin V. Semrad Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. He is a past recipient of the “Outstanding Psychiatrist Award” from the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society for Public Sector Service. He is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. In 2011 he received the Special Faculty Prize for Sustained Excellence in Teaching from Harvard Medical School.

Matcheri S. Keshavan, MD, is Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Vice Chair, Public Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.