The American Psychotherapy Association the American Association of Integrative Medicine & the American College of Wellness Present the Evolution of Health Care: Unifying Mind, Body & Spirit
Journal article; Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association, Vol. 6, 2003
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The American Psychotherapy Association the American Association of Integrative Medicine & the American College of Wellness Present the Evolution of Health Care: Unifying Mind, Body & Spirit. 2003 NATIONAL CONFERENCE SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, AUG. 22-24, 2003 FRIDAY GENERAL SESSIONS American Psychotherapy Association "Guided Imagery as a Healing, Therapeutic Tool" |
Presenters: Charles D. Leviton,
Ed.D., DAPA,
Licensed Marriage and
Family Therapist, Licensed
Psychotherapist
Synergy Seminars
Patti Leviton, M.A., Cht
Certified Hypnotherapist
Synergy Seminars
Date: Friday, Aug. 22, 2003
Time: 8 a.m. to noon
(with 15-minute break)
Room: Executive Salon 3
Level: All levels
Fee: No additional fee
CE Credit: 3.75 hours
CE Approval: APA, NBCC,
ASWB, CABS, RN
Target Audience: Open
| Guided Imagery stands at the cutting edge of today's psychotherapy as people become more and more attuned to the "mind-body" connection. Imagery has become the treatment of choice for stress reduction, pain control, symptom removal, prior trauma removal and personal growth. Participants will benefit from the experience of imagery plus understand how to utilize this process themselves with clients as an additional tool for diagnosis, stress reduction, healing and therapeutic growth. At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to: 1. Listen to one's body and relax into the physical or emotional pain, as opposed to judging the experience or fighting and denying it. 2. Utilize the healing properties of the body; "the healing solution", the body's own placebo. 3. Talk to the pain in symbolic imagery; ask the symptom to take symbolic form and carry on dialogue as to its function and purpose. 4. Begin to bring the mind-body connection into focus and give the body permission to heal. "Healing the Therapeutic Community: Hope for Re-Integrating the Work of Medicine, Psychotherapy and Pastoral Care" |
Presenter: Barbara D. Henderson,
D.Min., BCC, LPC, DAPA,
Chaplain/Pastoral Counselor
Los Alamos Medical Center,
Los Alamos, N.M.
Elliot J. Rapoport, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Robert J. Thomsen, M.D.
Dermatologist, Private
Practice, Los Alamos
Medical Center, Los
Alamos, N.M.
Date: Friday, Aug. 22, 2003
Time: 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Room: Executive Salon 1
Level: Introductory
Fee: No additional fee
CE Credit: 2 hours
CE Approval: APA, NBCC, ASWB,
CABS, RN
Target Audience: Physicians,
Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Clergy
and Pastoral Counselors, Social
Workers, Nurses
| In the past two decades, there has been significant research associating religious and spiritual values with client healing. It is now understood that the clinician who discounts or ignores the spirituality of clients serves the client poorly and undermines the healing process. Less well understood and appreciated is the role the clinician's own spirituality plays in the client-provider relationship. Since the foundation for healing lies in the transforming nature of the relationship between client and provider, requiring trust and accountability on both parts, it is incumbent upon the clinician to become clear about his or her own spiritual values and practices and to develop them to the fullest. It is also wise for the clinician to become informed about the religion/spiritual practices of his or her clients. Physical, psychological and spiritual care have not always been separate in theory or in practice. The recent tendency toward evidence-based scientific medicine has accentuated the gap that has been created between the therapeutic disciplines, and the rise of specialization works against the best possible outcome for the client. It is the thesis of this presentation that closer integration of spiritual values and pastoral care into the practice of both medicine and psychotherapy will promote greater health for client and provider alike and may lead to lessening the split between medicine, psychotherapy and pastoral care. This interactive presentation will invite the participant to consider the further development of his or her own spirituality, consider the ways in which spirituality is integrated into his or her life and practice and explore ways to foster the re-integration of medicine, psychotherapy and pastoral care within his or her own practice setting. At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to: 1. Understand the roots of the historic split between medicine, psychotherapy and pastoral care. 2. Understand and describe how religious/spiritual values and practices promote healing. 3. Explore options for deepening one's own spirituality. 4. Describe the current efforts toward re-integration of the therapeutic disciplines. 5. Explore options for more closely aligning each of the therapeutic disciplines within their own practice. FRIDAY FEATURED WORKSHOP American Psychotherapy Association "Counseling with Choice Theory: The New Reality Therapy" |
Featured Presenter: William Glasser, M.D
Date: Friday, Aug. 22, 2003
Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
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