66th Annual Conference

Thursday, February 19

Morning Workshops

10:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.

Workshop 9

Redecision Therapy

Chair:                

Vann S. Joines, Ph.D., Director, Southeast Institute for Group and Family Therapy, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Redecision therapy is a brief, in-depth, psychodynamic approach that helps participants quickly identify the origins of current difficulties in the early decisions they made to take care of themselves in childhood, appreciate the survival value of those decisions, and to change them so that they no longer limit themselves in the present. This approach integrates individual work with group process.

didactic-experiential-demonstration-sharing of work experiences

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Formulate an appropriate treatment contract.

2. Identify a client's existential position.

3. Utilize that existential position to move back to the source of the problem.

4. Select appropriate interventions to facilitate redecisions.

Course References:

1. Goulding, R.L.& Goulding, M.M. (1979). Introduction to redecision therapy. In Changing Lives Through Redecision Therapy, by Robert and Mary Goulding, pp. 3-10. New York: Brunner/Mazel.

2. Baird, J.L. (1997). Contracting for change, in Redecision Therapy, ed. C. Lennox, pp. 17-41. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson.

3. Joines, V. (2002). Redecision family therapy. In R. Massey and S. Massey (Eds.), Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, Vol.3 (pp. 435-462). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.