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Forward to the Past: Healing and Therapies in the 21st Century
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- Appraise the basic principles and overlap of traditional plant medicines and modern psychedelics as used for physical and mental health conditions, such as autoimmune disease and addictions.
- Utilize the most effective preparation and guidance principles for use prior, during, and after psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies.
- Construct a model for post session integration of clinical gains for follow-up psychotherapy sessions.
- Evaluate the psychedelics most effective for PTSD, depression, addiction, and end-of-life existential issues.
- Assess for contraindications to psychedelic use in psychotherapy and in unstructured settings.
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10/03/2022
Learning from Non-Ordinary States: Mindfulness, Compassion, & Psychedelics
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- Apply perspective into the history of non-traditional therapies for mental health disorders.
- Formulate a clinical definition of non-ordinary states of consciousness.
- Catalogue the types of experiences, clinical developments, and outcomes derived from non-ordinary states of consciousness.
- Theorize three therapeutic mechanisms of action associated with non-ordinary states.
- Apply at least 3 practices related to non-ordinary states to meaningfulness and compassion in psychotherapy.
- Evaluate the role of Psilocybin Assisted Psychotherapy (PAP).
- Measure therapeutic progress with mindfulness techniques.
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10/03/2022
Trauma & Altered States of Consciousness: Results of Psychedelic Studies
The renowned Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk describes the evolving professional understanding of PTSD and developmental trauma and presents recent research findings on the efficacy of psychedelic assisted therapy for use with this population. Clinicians who work with clients presenting with histories of trauma will gain new insights regarding how trauma impacts various components of functioning including affect regulation, social relationships, and self-compassion. Surprising findings regarding the effects of psychedelic assisted therapy with trauma patients and its’ possible beneficial use with other populations are presented.
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- Differentiate various presentations of trauma and how client functioning is impacted.
- Evaluate the relationship between an insecure attachment style and the developmental trajectory of trauma.
- Analyze the potential efficacy of psychedelic assisted treatment with PTSD patients based on findings presented in this program.
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11/03/2022
Expanding the Nature and Breadth of Consciousness: A Holistic Psychedelic Approach
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- Distinguish the differences between psychedelic-assisted therapy and other types of therapy to improve treatment outcomes.
- Determine the preparations and precautions of using ketamine in session.
- Theorize what a client may experience during a ketamine-assisted psychotherapy session for the reduction of symptoms.
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11/03/2022
Integration Strategies for Psychedelic Psychotherapy: Focus on Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
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- Justify the clinical rationale for ketamine assisted psychotherapy (KAP).
- Analyze the key reactions and internal experiences specific to KAP.
- Identify sources of inner healing to assist patients with integration before, during, and after KAP.
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11/03/2022
Internal Family Systems (IFS): A Simple and Effective Map to the Psychedelics Territory
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- Evaluate the development and history of Internal Family Systems therapeutic approach.
- Theorize a proposed way IFS can be used with psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to enhance treatment outcomes.
- Analyze the key facilitation skills needed to anticipate, and not overreact to, IFS work and parts work reactions.
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12/03/2022
Training Medical and Mental Health Professionals to Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapies
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- Determine the key features of the “transformational process”.
- Distinguish the best practices, ethical and therapeutic, for psychedelic assisted psychotherapy.
- Theorize various uses and functions of expanded states of consciousness.
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12/03/2022
Transformative Psychotherapy: Process and Methodology
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- Catalogue medical disorders that are shown to be effectively treated with ketamine assisted psychotherapy.
- Evaluate contraindications for ketamine assisted psychotherapy.
- Differentiate therapist competencies for psychedelic-assisted interventions vs talk therapies.
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12/03/2022
What Does the Future Hold for Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy?
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10/03/2022
Covering the Pros & Cons of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
Join the leading experts in the fields of PAP and trauma as they weigh in on the legal risks of practising psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, including their answers to the question, "How do you help clients interested in PAP when legality is still an issue?"
Plus, discover how they believe experiences with psychedelics transform our relationship to dying and the fear we typically associate with it.
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- Devise plan for how to assist patient in psychedelic integration work.
- Argue how psychedelic treatment may lead to increases in compassion.
- Evaluate use of psychedelics in shifting relationship with death.
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11/03/2022
Exploring the Psychedelic Power of Meditation
The panel of experts discuss the idea that 'meditation is also psychedelic' and ways in which PAP can enhance one's meditative experience by forcing them to stay in the moment.
They touch on the idea of acceptance and explain what it's like to “come back to reality” after a transformative meditation.
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- Differentiate IFS interventions, psychedelic experience and Buddhist conceptualizations as related to clinical practice.
- Integrate psychedelic use with IFS trauma treatment.
- Employ two specific approaches to sustaining therapeutic gains.
- Identify physical markers of underlying psychic process and emotional status.
- Apply best practice principles to trauma treatment.
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12/03/2022