COURSES ▶ SEMINAR
How patients test their therapists and how therapists can pass these tests: Identifying and passing patients' tests in real time.
Patients are constantly testing the beliefs that keep them stuck. Learn how to help them move on.
Saturday July 18th
9am-12pm PST
Live Online Seminar through Zoom
Instructor:
Francesco Gazzillo, PhD
Patients are constantly working in therapy, testing the beliefs that keep them stuck, often without realizing it. How the clinician responds to these moments can determine whether treatment moves forward or quietly stalls.
Control-Mastery Theory (CMT) holds that these tests, both conscious and unconscious, are central to how change happens. When clinicians pass them, they provide the corrective emotional experiences patients need to revise pathogenic beliefs and move on.
This seminar gives practicing therapists and graduate students a working framework for recognizing and responding to tests in real time.
What it means to pass or fail one
This course will cover:
The main categories of testing
The criteria for identifying a test as it happens
The clinical moves that turn a test into a corrective experience
The empirical research supporting these claims
Meet the Speaker
Francesco Gazzillo, PhD, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Associate Professor of Dynamic Psychology, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology & Health Studies, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome.
President of the Control-Mastery Theory Italian Group.
After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:
Track this dimension of the work in their own cases and adjust their interventions accordingly.
Course Level: Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced
CME Credits: SFPRG designates this for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
SFPRG is accredited by the California Medical Association (CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
All planners and all presenters for this educational activity have no financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
CE Credits: 3 APA-approved CE hours. If you would like CEUs, you should indicate so during registration. COAs will be sent within 30 days of the class. You must arrive on time for the course and stay for the entirety of the program to receive CE credit.
Cost: $150 for General Public
$100 for SFPRG Members
$30 for Students (No CEU's or CMEs)
The Personalized Psychotherapy Institute (PPI) is the education wing of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group (SFPRG)
registrations
Course Schedule: If you would like know more about the schedule for this event please contact our front office at cmt@sfprg.org or 415-561-6771
Cancellation Policy: No refunds are provided for this event. If you have questions about your registration, please contact our office at cmt@sfprg.org 415-561-6771
Co-sponsorship: There is no co-sponsor of this event.
Commercial Support: There is no known commercial support for this program.
Please note that registrations for all PPI classes are handled by the website of our parent member organization SFPRG. You will be redirected to that website to complete your registration. You need not be a member to register, however, if you are a member or have registered for one of our classes before, you will be prompted to enter your information.