Psychotherapy: Theory, Practice and Research (PST 453) Sylabus 2017 Guarantee: PhDr. Roman Hytych, Ph.D.; e-mail: romhyt@gmail.com Lectures: Mgr. Michal Čevelíček, MUDr. David Holub, Ph.D., PhDr. Roman Hytych, Ph.D., Mgr. Mária Kahancová, Mgr. Tomáš Řiháček, Ph.D., MUDr. David Skorunka, Ph.D., Mgr. Monika Skutková, Mgr. Lucia Ukropová, prof. PhDr. Zbyněk Vybíral, Ph.D., ECTS: 4 credits The course is offered for foreign students of BA and MA programs. It consists of lectures listed below. The final exam will take form of an essay (8 - 10 pages) on a chosen theme. 80% attendance on lectures is compulsory. Lectures are conducted on Tuesdays from 9:45 till 11:15 in the room M117 (attention – there will be one lecture on Friday 24/11 from 11:30 till 13:00 in the room U41). Courses start on October 3th. Dates of lectures: 10/10, 17/10, 24/10, 31/10, 7/11, 14/11, 24/11, 28/11, 5/12, 12/12. Note: There might be slight changes of the dates of lectures. In that case the students will be informed by e-mail in advance. Course lectures: Zbyněk Vybíral: Introduction to Theory, Practice and Research in Psychotherapy (10/10) The lecture offers basic overview covering themes such psychotherapy as a profession, scientific view in psychotherapy and variety of research designs. The focus on psychotherapy as both, the science and “gift” includes several issues for questioning and discussion. Some biases are mentioned as well. Stiles, W. B., Shapiro, D. A., Elliot, R. (1986). „Are All Psychotherapies Equivalent“? American Psychologist 41 (2), s.165-180; O’Donohue, W., Cummings, N. A., Cummings, J. L. (2006). Clinical Strategies for Becoming a Master Psychotherapist. Burlington, San Diego, London: Academic Press. Michal Čevelíček: Case formulation as a process and product of therapists' thinking about their clients (17/10) Broadly defined, psychotherapy case formulation captures the ways in which therapists think about their clients (cases). Specifically, it is a process and a product of capturing and structuring complex information, developing hypotheses about the nature of issues at hand, and forming plans to resolve these issues. First, we will focus on specifics of “therapeutic thinking”. Is thinking of therapists any different from “common” thinking? What do therapists learn to think as therapists? Second, we will take a look at some specific methods of case formulation (both integrative and orientation-specific), which therapists' may use to shape their thinking. Eells, T.D. (Ed.). (2007) Handbook of Psychotherapy Case Formulation. New York, London: The Guilford Press. Ingram, B. L. (2010). Clinical case formulations: Matching the integrative treatment plan to the client. New Jersey, NY: John Wiley & Sons. David Skorunka: Narrative and psychotherapy; from psychological to post psychological perspective (24/10) In this lecture, a metaphor of story and narrative is discussed with regard to both major psychotherapeutic approaches and practice. A particular emphasis is given to narrative therapy inspired by theory of social construction. Angus, L., McLeod, J. The Handbook of Narrative and Psychotherapy, Sage, 2004 Payne, M. Narrative Therapy; An Introduction for Counsellors, Sage, 2006 Tomáš Řiháček: Psychotherapy integration from the perspective of training and professional development (31/10) After a brief introduction to psychotherapy integration, the lecture will focus on various ways how therapists develop to integrative perspective, analyzing their potential advantages and drawbacks. Norcross, J. C., Halgin, R. P. (2005). Training in psychotherapy integration. In Norcross, J. C., Goldfried, M. R. (Eds.). Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration (2. vyd.). New York: Oxford University Press, s. 439–458. David Skorunka: Contemporary family therapy and systemic practice (7/11) The lecture introduces main assumptions and variety of practice in contemporary family therapy including integrative approaches in this field. Major research findings regarding both outcome and process of family therapy will be presented. Dallos, R., Draper, R. Introduction to Family Therapy, Open University Press, 2010, 3^rd Edition Carr, A. Family Therapy; Concepts, Process and Practice, Wiley and sons, 2009, 2^nd Edition Roman Hytych: Mindfulness in contemporary psychotherapy: Clinical practice and research findings (14/11) Mindfulness is a core skill for life coping developed within Buddhist tradition. Recent years of its psychotherapy application and scientific research have showed a huge range of its benefits for psychotherapy clients as well as psychotherapists themselves. Brown, K. W., Ryan, R. M., Creswell, J. D. (2007). Mindfulness: Theoretical Foundation and Evidence for its Salutary Effects. Psychological Inquiry. 4, 211-237. David Holub: Introduction into operationalized clinical interviewing and its video-recorded analysis: Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostic System (OPD-2) (24/11, 11:30-13, U41) This course is designed to introduce the theory, research and practice of conducting initial assessment diagnostic interview that is recorded. These video-recordings are in second step analysed and rated. Through lecture, brief video-recorded vignettes and discussion participants will be familiarised with the guiding theoretical principles and practice of conducting OPD interview, clinical observation/rating and finally research use of OPD-2 assessment. Cierpka M., Grande T., Rudolf G., von der Tann M., Stasch M. (2007). The operationalized psychodynamic diagnostics system: clinical relevance, reliability and validity. Psychopathology 40, 209–220 10.1159/000101363 (Free online: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3829565/) Kessler H, Taubner S, Buchheim A, Münte TF, Stasch M, et al. (2011) Individualized and Clinically Derived Stimuli Activate Limbic Structures in Depression: An fMRI Study. PLoS ONE 6(1): e15712. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015712 Monika Skutková: Helpful and hindering events in psychotherapy (28/11) The lecture will focus on research of helpful and hindering events in psychotherapy – its history, way of analysis of significant events, overview of the most important results and connection of events to therapy outcome. Understanding of helpful and hindering events can be useful particularly for therapists in practice. Timulák, L. (2010). Significant events in psychotherapy: An update of research findings. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practise, 83, s. 421-447. Timulák, L. (2007). Identifying core categories of client-identified impact of helpful events in psychotherapy: A qualitative meta-analysis. Psychotherapy Research, 17(3), 310-320. Mária Kahancová Mastery in therapy (5/12) What does the mastery in therapy mean? What are the "best of the best" like? This lecture introduces the research on expertise in counselling and therapy. Results of recent qualitative research will be presented. Discussion will focus on characteristics and qualities of master therapists. Řiháček, T., Kahancová, M., Jennings, L., Roubal, J, & Vybíral, Z. (2016). Czech master therapists. In L. Jennings & T. M. Skovholt (Eds.), Expertise in counseling and therapy: International perspectives on master therapists ( 19-51). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Skovholt, T. M. (2013). Becoming a therapist: On the path to mastery. New York,NY: Wiley. Zbyněk Vybíral: How many psychotherapies we have (List of recognized treatments) (12/12) We decided to create and henceforth manage a comprehensive list of widely (i.e. scientifically) recognized contemporary psychotherapies (particularly in North America and Europe) that is aimed to be as complete and valid as possible. The lecture is based on some papers from conferences. Castonguay, L. G. (2006). Personal pathways in psychotherapy integration. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 16 (1), s. 36–58. Themes for final essay (choose one of them): 1. Short outline of situation of psychotherapy in your country; 2. Main psychotherapy approaches, personalities and training institutes in your country; 3. Psychotherapy politics in your country (legal framework); 4. What are the researchers focused on in the field of psychotherapy in your country? Final essay submission deadline: 17th December, 2017 Essay evalutation criteria: l personal elaboration of the subject – predominance of own considerations, insights, opinions and interpretations (work with literature, but do not just describe or cite it.) l sophistication, structuring, dictint line of thought or concept l content density and depth (of course depth is inversely proportional to the breadth of the topic – also an essay with a broad topic and less sophisticated sub-themes may be excellent; anyway we rather recommend to elaborate a chosen sub-theme, in detail and in context.) l ability of a clear presentation of the main ideas of the essay and ability to participate in critical discussion l keeping to the topic and length l formally correct working with terminology and literature, apparent distinguishing of own ideas from those of others, citing according to APA standard l see also Bad and Good example of final essay in Information system