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BRIEF STRATEGIC THERAPY

MODULES OF STUDY

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MODULE 1
PRIMARY PATIENT CONTACT
  • Strategic case history
    • Assuming rapport, therapists permission of symptoms
    • The importance of patient’s reality (Modality of belief)
    • Symptom assessment (First stage BASIC ID)
    • Symptomatic pattern (BASIC ID Targeting - Second stage BASIC ID Tracking order)
    • Symptom development( Firing sequence)
    • Symptom core structures(Third stage BASIC ID)
    • Symptom maintenance(Attempted solutions)
    • Limitation of therapy
  • Deciding the best approach and what to target
  • Stages of treatment 1-3 sessions
  • A clear goal for therapy
    • The solution focused approach
  • Motivation for change/ Symptom utilisation
  • Priming the patient for change
MODULE 2
BIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLNESS AND TREATMENT
  • The autonomic nervous system
    • Higher centre
    • Hypothalamus
    • Limbic centre
    • Amygdala
    • Hippocampus
    • Hypothalamic /Pituitary axis
  • Neuro transmission
  • Information substances/ Information transduction
  • Parasynaptic transmission theory
  • Homeostasis/Arousal-Relaxation/ Ultradian cycle
  • The ‘mind body link’
  • Implicit and episodic memory
  • Basic/ advanced concepts of state dependent memory
MODULE 3
CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Generalised anxiety disorder
  • Insomnia
  • Panic disorders
  • Agoraphobia
  • Phobic anxiety
    • Simple
    • Social
  • Obsessive compulsive disorder
  • Neurotic depression
  • S tress reactions and associated phenomena
  • Post traumatic stress
  • Psychological aspects of symptoms
    • Fears
    • Irritability
    • Restless behaviour
    • Inability to concentrate
    • Worry
    • Sleep disturbances
    • Recursive anxiety
    • Learned helplessness
  • Physical aspects of symptoms
MODULE 4
STRATEGIC EYE MOVEMENT
REPROCESSING
  • Fovea focus deconstruction
  • Symptom pattern interruption
  • Splitting negative self talk
  • Theoretical aspects
  • Contraindications
  • Accelerated Information Processing (AIP)
  • Methods to facilitate AIP
    • Eye movements
    • Tactile processing
    • Auditory processing
  • Patient priming
    • Explanation of eye movement techniques to patients
    • Utilising the patient’s response
    • Working through/ Anxiety/ Resistance
  • Protocols: Accessing/ Resynthesis / Future incubation
    • Trauma
    • Phobic
    • Current anxiety
    • Habit extinction
    • Symptom assessment strategies
    • Patient debriefing
    • Self application

MODULE 5
PARADOXICAL APPROACH TO BST
  • Quantum psychology/ Chaos theory/ Strange Attractors
  • Non Linear Dynamics
  • Iteration of the symptom
  • Self Organisation
  • Advanced quantum strategies/ Bifurcation Strategies
  • Symptom expansion/ Re –association
  • Dealing with non compliance
  • Symptom signalling
  • First order change
  • Second order change/ Meta changes
  • Cognitive aspects of symptoms
  • Specific paradoxical manoeuvres
  • Utilising the patient’s response
  • De labelling of symptoms
  • Re-framing and positive connotation
  • Psychoeducation
  • Symptom exploration/ modification/ exposure
MODULE 6
STATE DEPENDENT MEMORY
  • Theory
  • Recognition factors
  • Fear conditioning/ Amygdala
  • Therapeutic approaches
  • Sequential accessing and re-synthesis
  • Polarity four stage approach
  • Deconstruction of symptom core structures
  • Strategic element modification
    • Selective image symbolisation
    • Opposition strategies
  • Symptom signalling and scaling
  • Past/Present/Future synthetic techniques
  • Strategic solution focused approaches/ Amplification
  • Incubation of future orientated behaviour
  • Strategic movement reprocessing
  • Miscellaneous Resynthesis
  • Expansion strategies/ sensory overload