Empathic Confrontation by Friederike Vogel & Neele Reiss

EMPATHIC CONFRONTATION

by Friederike Vogel & Neele Reiss

Maladaptive coping modes such as Detached Protector or Self-Aggrandizer Mode are the cause of major difficulties in treating patients with various personality disorders. Rigid behavior patterns associated with these modes significantly influence other people’s, even therapist’s, reactions, often triggering them to behave in ways that reinforce the patient’s maladaptive schemas.

Being specifically tailored towards changing maladaptive coping modes, empathic confrontation is a therapeutic intervention in Schema Therapy that is part of limited reparenting and at the same time a mode change strategy in its own right. Empathic confrontation can be defined as the therapist’s approach to addressing maladaptive coping modes and associated behaviors, with empathy for how they developed biographically, balanced by confronting these modes and behaviors as needing to change for the patient to have a healthy life. It is a critical and difficult intervention for accomplishing the overall goal of Schema Therapy- to help patients get their adult needs met in a healthy manner – as it points out the negative effects of their currently used unhealthy mode driven behaviors and assists them in learning and using more adaptive behaviors.

Empathic confrontation is based on the principle of limited reparenting: the strong connection between therapist and patient, in which the therapist repeatedly shows the patient that he or she has the patient’s best interest at heart and has good intentions when confronting maladaptive coping mode behaviors.

After this workshop participants can:

Date

10. - 11. February 2017

Venue

NFKT - Pilestredet 75 c, 4. etg., Oslo

Registration & fees

Registration fee: 4. 000 NOK

Registration includes participation in all sessions, workshop handouts, and coffee/fruit break each day. For registration and further information about the seminar, please see www.psykologbehandling.no or contact Erlend Aschehoug at erlend@psykologbehandling.no

Registration deadline is 15. January 2017

Agenda Friday 10. February 2017

09.30 - 10.00: Registratrion

10.00 - 10.30: Introduction to Empathic Confrontation in Schema Therapy

10.30 - 11.00: Empathic Confrontation for Detached Protector Mode

11.00 - 11.30: Demonstration of Empathic Confrontation for Detached Protector Mode

11.30 - 12.30: Lunch

12.30 - 14.00: Supervised dyadic exercises of Empathic Confrontation for Detached Protector Mode

14.00 - 14.30: The issue of suicidal ideations: Demonstration of Empathic Confrontation for Detached Protector Mode with Suicidal Ideation

14.30 - 14.50: Pause

14.50 - 16.30: Supervised dyadic exercises of Empathic Confrontation for Detached Protector Mode with Suicidal Ideation

16.30 - 17.00: Final Questions & Reflections

Agenda Saturday 11. February 2017

08.30 - 09.00: Registratrion

09.00 - 09.30: Empathic Confrontation for Compliant Surrender Mode

09.30 - 10.00: Demonstration of Empathic Confrontation for Compliant Surrender Mode

10.00 - 11.30: Supervised dyadic exercises of Empathic Confrontation for Compliant Surrender Mode

11.30 - 12.30: Lunch

12.30 - 13.00: Empathic Confrontation for Overcompensating Modes (example of Self-Aggrandizer Mode) and Limit Setting

13.00 - 13.30: Demonstration of Empathic Confrontation and Limit Setting for Self-Aggrandizer Mode

13.30 - 13.50: Pause

13.50 - 15.30: Supervised dyadic exercises of Empathic Confrontation and Limit Setting for Overcompensating Modes

15.30 - 16.00: Final Questions & Reflections

About the Presenters: 

Neele Reiss, PhD - She is a senior clinical psychologist and psychotherapist at the department of psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany and in private practice. She is the scientific director of the Institute of Psychotherapy in Mainz (ipsti-mz). Neele Reiss’ clinical and research focus is the implementation and evaluation of intensive Schema Therapy programs for patients with Personality Disorders, in which individual and group schema therapies are combined. Another research focus is on specific techniques used in Schema Therapy such as imagery rescripting, chair techniques and empathic confrontation.

Friederike Vogel, MD - She is a senior psychiatrist and psychotherapist at the Vitos Clinic Rheingau, Germany and in private practice. She is the director of training and supervision of the Institute of Psychotherapy in Mainz (ipsti-mz). Friederike Vogel’s clinical focus is currently the implementation an intensive Schema Therapy program for patients with Cluster B Personality Disorder and addiction, in which individual and group schema therapies are combined.