A three year course in ISTDP based on the work and original writings of H. Davanloo and the
handbook Mastering Intensive Short Term Dynamic psychotherapy, a Roadmap to the
unconscious, Josette Ten Have-de Labije and Robert J. Neborsky,
Karnack 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1-85575-821-6. The core straining consists of 5 three day
weekends per year during three years, it is based on the idea to learn the trainee core
competences in theory and practice of ISTDP, Each weekend consists of one day of theory
and presentations, discussion of literature and an exam. The other two days are designed to
execute individual supervision in the learning group. Each workshop has been given a
working title, for example; Emotion regulation, physiological and neurobiological aspects, the
relevant literature on the subject, a day schedule. Each workshop is evaluated while using
APA forms.
The core training is accredited with all Dutch associations that deliver accreditation points in
order to be able to reregister for the governmental licenses involved
Program Information
Program Name: Core training in ISTDP in the Netherlands, Netherlands Foundation for ISTDP (only available in the Dutch language)
Location(s):Amsterdam
CE Credits: the training is designed to meet the requirements of the Dutch governmental and societal requirements to register and reregister as a legal practitioner of psychotherapy in the Netherlands and is accredited by the Dutch associations for psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy, the CE points for the Netherlands are -Dutch Association for Psychiatry; 108 CE credits -Federation for Health care Psychologists and Psychotherapists; 76 CE credits -Dutch Association for Psychotherapy; 234 CE credits
Contact Information for Registration
Kees Cornelissen; cornelis.cornelissen@gmail.com
t; 0031654795533
Email: info@istdp-nederland.nl
Web site: http://www.istdp-nederland.nl
Responsible for Training
Lead trainer: Kees Cornelissen works in a private practice in Belgium. He founded a day-center for ISTDP in the Netherlands which offers day treatment and individual psychotherapy. Formerly he worked in a residential centre for psychotherapy where he developed residential and day treatment ISTDP, working with the technique in a group-setting. He wrote a book about residential ISTDP, has published several articles in the Ad Hoc Bulletin of ISTDP: practice and theory. Co-author in several other publications. He runs the Dutch ISTDP core training in ISTDP, international ISTDP, core trainings, individual supervision, , presents in conferences, summer schools, masterclasses, in- and outside the Netherlands, chairman of the Dutch Foundation For ISTDP. He is associated and working together with Josette ten Have-de Labije, founder of the ISTDP in the Netherlands
Other trainers:José Verpoort and Joy Oonk
Who Should Attend
Psychiatrists, Clinical psychologists, Psychotherapists and Psychologists
Type of Training
Core Training
Other training offered: -individual supervision; On request individual Supervision is offered to clinicians as a part of the training weekends each participant is required to bring videotaped material of his work with patients and receives then individual supervision in the group of fellow participants duration approx.. 90 minutes per person. -core training; this program is designed as a classical core training in a group, each participant is obliged to participate in 6 workshops of three consecutive days per year, one day is a workshop highlighting an important subject of the ISTDP ( see the list of subjects), the next two days are used for individual supervision, roleplays and theoretical elaboration on the subjects that emanate from the supervision. All participants are obliged to read the literature that goes with each theoretical workshop, the first day of their training weekend and they are given an examination by means of three or four questions about the literature they had to read. -theoretical and clinical seminars and courses; summer schools, advanced training, workshops, conferences. Re the core-training each workshop, training block opens with a day on a theoretical subject, the trainer or the co trainer prepares a PowerPoint presentation on the subject and roleplay to practice the material on the spot. -workshops and immersion courses; Workshops in and outside the Netherlands Re the coretraining; participants are encouraged to participate in events re ISTDP, the IEDTA conferences, workshops organized on ISTDP subjects by other organizations in and out the Netherlands. -informal exposure to clinical research methodology; Participants will learn to work with their patients as in a N=1 study and to fullfill the requirements of such a N=1 study -other type of training. Pre-core ISTDP training groups, intervision with colleagues Intervision; each participant is obliged to participate in intervision meetings, monthly. They keep a log re the subjects, their discussions and presence.
IEDTA Certified: yes
Format of Training
• 15 blocks of three days, 45 days, in three years,
• Theoretical education of totally ; 120 hrs.
• Supervision hours; 240
• Intervision hours; approx. 72 hrs.
• Format; first day theory and practice of a given subject, roleplay
• Second and third day; individual supervision in group, roleplay, elaboration of the subjects
that emerged from the supervision and are relevant for the group
• Intervision once a month, obliged
• Theory exams each block
Commitment Required:
As mentioned before 5 weekends per year, during three days, 105 hours of education,
Intervision and self-study at home
Group size is minimal 6 and maximal 12 therapists for the group to be viable . Each trainee is
expected to make a commitment to the first year of training. After the first year the trainee
can commit to another 2 years of training
Those trainees who complete a full 3 years will receive their certification in ISTDP from the
IEDTA and the Foundation KDP. They can also apply for the ISTDP-register of the NVPP
(Dutch Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy).
If there is interest, the group can extend beyond 3 years to provide advanced training for
those with certification or the ability to obtain certification for those who joined the group after
its inception.
Learning Objectives
-Assessment and practice using 1) the technique of Dynamic Diagnostics, 2) how to use the Central Dynamic Sequence, 3) the clinical use of the triangles of Conflict and person
- Assessment of the nature and degree of the particular patient´s superego and character
pathology
- Assessment of the particular patient´s anxiety regulation
- Assessment of the nature and degree of the patient´s ego adaptive capacity
- Techniques of 1) confrontation, identification, clarification , 2) challenge, 3) pressure,
4)Hoc, to be aimed at which patient´s variable
- Techniques to separate ego from superego
- Assessment of quality and degree of the working alliance with the patient
- Techniques to establish the working alliance with the patient
- Restructuring the patient´s ego adaptive capacity
- Techniques to maintain and increase the quality of the working alliance with the patient
- Helping the patient to constructively deal with his emotions , impulse, anxiety
- Turning red traffic lights into green on the road to the patient´s unconscious, effective working
with defenses
- Unlocking of I/F and past traumata
- Working through, C-P-T links
- Saying farewell and preparation for Follow Up sessions
Fees
each training block costs € 850,-
Refund Policy:yes, cancellation three months before the training starts there is a refund of 100 %, three
months before the training starts 75%, one month 50%, at the start no refund possible.