Description: 
This presentation will examine the profound emotional and psychological impact of sexual betrayal from both the betrayed and the betrayer's perspectives. This presentation uncovers the heavy burden carried by each partner—the deep pain, guilt, and shattered trust that can overwhelm relationships. We will explore how betrayal affects the individual identities of both partners, their relationship dynamics, and the often divergent paths to healing. By understanding these complex emotional landscapes, we aim to provide compassionate insights and practical strategies for navigating the challenging journey toward mutual understanding and recovery.

Category of Education: D1.1 Assessment/ Evaluation, Intervention

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious
• Medical professionals, M.D., P.A., Nurses

Content Learning Level: Beginner, Introductory

Learning Objectives:

1. Assess betrayed partners for PTSD symptoms
2. Evaluate the level of acting out in the betraying partner
3. Discuss the impact of sexual betrayal to couples and offer solutions for healing

Schedule:

• 10 min. —Introduction to the topic
• 20 min. — Discussion on the research on betrayal and the PTSD symptoms
• 20 min. — Discussion on the burden of shame the betrayer carriers and how it influences their relationship dynamics
• 20 min. — Influence of betrayal on the relationship
• 20 min. — Discuss solutions

The Catholic Psychotherapy Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Catholic Psychotherapy Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Description: 
The theological premises of a Catholic-Christian anthropology, that humans are created, fallen, and redeemed (Vitz et al., 2020) and the key elements of trauma-informed care (SAMHSA, 2014) both highlight the ubiquity of suffering, woundedness, and the call to flourishing in humans across all roles: patient, therapist, trainee, and supervisor. This presentation provides a review of the principles of trauma-informed care and supervision and discusses the implications of these principles on client welfare, trainee learning, and trainee wellbeing. Case examples will be used to discuss the application of trauma-informed supervision principles and interventions across the client-trainee-supervisor triad.

Category of Education: D1.1 Assessment/ Evaluation, Intervention

Intended Audience: 

• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Medical professionals, M.D., P.A., Nurses

Content Learning Level: Intermediate

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify 6 principles of trauma-informed care
2. Identify 3 strategies to decrease negative effects of stress-responses on trainee learning and performance
3. Apply principles of trauma-informed care and trauma-informed learning strategies to supervision case examples

Schedule:

• First 30 minutes: Lecture on Trauma Informed Supervision Concepts and Strategies
• Next 20 minutes: Case Example 1
• Next 20 minutes: Case Example 2
• Last 20 minutes: Q & A and discussion

The Catholic Psychotherapy Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Catholic Psychotherapy Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Description: 
The workshop will follow the content of the Integratus article on the same topic that I have submitted, except with live demonstration experience for the audience. In the first portion, the workshop will describe the contemporary theories of emotion and current research on the somatic aspects of emotions including whole body PET scans. The emotions will be mapped to Thomistic psychology and the phenomenon observed in clinical study will be described. A brief presentation on Thomistic psychology will be included. The conflict between current research and linguistic lack of precision will be highlighted arguing for the need to improve anthropological understanding of emotion prior to phenomenological. 

Next, the utility of emotional awareness from SET will be described with multiple case examples in which addiction and trauma clients with formal diagnoses of PTSD and substance use will be shown. These cases will be provided in greater detail than the Integratus article providing reports of symptom experience for the clients.

Finally, and likely throughout the presentation, live demonstration of therapeutic techniques of SET will be provided in which the audience will participate in pendulation and somatic emotion identification. SET is designed as a single or two session model and the manual is provided in the Integratus article. By the end of the session it is the goal that audience members will feel confident attempting this exercise with their own clients

Category of Education: D1.3 Practice/Education/Research

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious

Content Learning Level: Intermediate 

Learning Objectives:

1. Define the 11 emotions of Thomistic psychology and the 4 levels of the human soul.
2. Summarize the current research findings on somatic sensations of emotional experience.
3. Apply the Somatic Emotions Training exercise to their own clients.

Schedule:

• 15 minute lecture - background and summary of somatic work in trauma
• 15 minute - live demonstration
• 30 minute lecture - current research on emotional sensations, overlay of Thomistic Psychology
• 30 minute lecture - Case study applications of current somatic research on overcoming trauma, linguistic and cultural barriers in session

The Catholic Psychotherapy Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Catholic Psychotherapy Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Description: This presentation will elucidate how substances, high-risk behavior, and mental health problems affect healthy neurodevelopment, change brain structure and describe the role of genetics, the effect of environmental trauma, and implications for prevention and treatment. Assessment, treatment, prevention, family-of-origin, and group tools will be included. Content is relevant for clinical use and application of executive functioning skills assessment and building, the use of genetic testing in treatment planning, use of natural supplements to support neurotransmitter deficits, helping clients discover the origins of their use, and devising brain-based treatment plans that align with neurodevelopmental healing and dendrite growth facilitation.

Category of Education: D1.1 Assessment/ Evaluation, Intervention

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious
• Medical professionals, M.D., P.A., Nurses

Content Learning Level: Intermediate 

Learning Objectives: 

Schedule: 

Description: 
There has been growing recent interest in issues of spirituality and faith in trauma treatment. This presentation will provide a brief and practical introduction to such work by reviewing the integrative approach of leading trauma theorists and clinicians, Christine Courtois & Stephanie Van Deusen, to the treatment of complex trauma.

 A panel of clinicians and a theologian will then discuss ways in which such an approach, may be helpful working with a Catholic population, but also consider what such an approach might look like in light of the Catholic Christian Meta Model of the Person.

Category of Education: D1.3 Practice/Education/Research

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious
• Medical professionals, M.D., P.A., Nurses

Content Learning Level: Intermediate 

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe three key features of the Courtois/Van Deusen approach to the integration of spiritual and religious themes in the treatment of complex trauma
2. Identify two ways in which the Catholic Christian Meta-model of the Person, might alter one’s understanding of complex trauma and its treatment

Schedule:

• Slide Presentation: 45 minutes (Dr Bond & Adrienne Peterson MPsy)
• Panel Discussion: 30 minutes (Dr Titus, Dr Orellana, Dr Bond)
• Audience Discussion: 15 minutes (open for questions/participant contributions)

The Catholic Psychotherapy Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Catholic Psychotherapy Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Description: 
Most mental health practitioners would say that they know how to help people who have experienced trauma; however, fewer develop and maintain proficiencies specific to treating trauma-related diagnoses. This can result in provision of psychotherapy that does not meet the standard of care and delays recovery. Ethical principles within the codes issued by the American Psychological Association and Catholic Psychotherapy Association call for better than this, as do other components of the standard of care.

Participants will be invited to assess their own levels of competency, proficiency, and proximity to specialization in the treatment of trauma-related symptoms and diagnoses.

Category of Education: D1.2 Legal/Ethics/Regulatory

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious
• Medical professionals, M.D., P.A., Nurses

Content Learning Level: Intermediate 

Learning Objectives:

1. Define and describe the terms fidelity, competency, and proficiency as they relate to the treatment of trauma-related symptoms and diagnoses.
2. Explain the difference between a proficiency and a practice specialty
3. Name the essential standards of care informing the treatment of PTSD, complex PTSD, complex trauma and dissociative disorders

Schedule:

• Introduction (5 mins)
• Self-assessment (5 mins)
• Foundational concepts and elements of the standard of care (25 mins)
• Building competency & proficiency toward specialized practice (25 mins)
• Case vignettes (20 mins)
• Q&A (10 mins)

The Catholic Psychotherapy Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Catholic Psychotherapy Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Description: 
A significant portion of the population is dealing with pornography addiction. Pornography use in an intimate relationship, especially when deception occurs, can seem insurmountable for both parties when the use comes to light. When the central foundation of trust is ruptured in this way, it is difficult for the couple to communicate openly and attempt to rebuild intimacy and trust. This presentation will address and review specifics of how the model of Relationship Enhancement®  (RE) Therapy enables therapists to facilitate dialogues and teach skills which will address individual and relational issues and begin healing which leads to self-gift and forgiveness. 

Category of Education: D1.1 Assessment/ Evaluation, Intervention

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors

Content Learning Level: Intermediate 

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify common relational and individual experiences when pornography is present in a romantic relationship.
2. Communicate the benefits of Relationship Enhancement® skills, namely becoming and “I mode” empathy, to facilitate greater trust. (integrate 3 here as one of the skills…?)
3. Identify how best to facilitate the process of forgiveness through skilled dialogues.

Schedule:

• 20 minutes- relational and intrapersonal impact of pornography use
• 40 minutes- Relationship Enhancement approach and skills used to facilitate healing from pornography usage
• 20 minutes- process of forgiveness in RE
• 10 minutes- Q&A

Description: 
A Substance Use Disorder (SUD) negatively impacts the life of the person using. It also emotionally, psychologically, financially and socially impacts the lives of the people who love them. However, not much attention is given to the difficulties Addiction-Affected Families (AAF) face nor to the treatment interventions that can help them recover. This workshop will offer practical information and the domains to focus on when the family member or loved one of a person with a SUD or in early recovery, presents in therapy. 

Category of Education: D1.1 Assessment/ Evaluation, Intervention

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious
• Medical professionals, M.D., P.A., Nurses

Content Learning Level: Beginner, Introductory

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the 5 main themes present in Addiction-Affected Families.
2. Explain the 5-step method in family interventions to address the 5 main themes present in Addiction-Affected Families.

Schedule:

• Intro: 5 mins
• Content presentation and case example 70 mins
• Q&A: 15 mins

Description: 

In the advent of pornography and the smartphone, Millennial and Gen Z seminarians and priests are exposed to sexualized content early, frequently and intensely. This poses a therapeutic question, “What are the emotional needs of these men, which are being projected onto the women they view and sexually ‘interact’ with through pornography and masturbation?” The aforementioned question requires a thorough evaluation of the mother son relationship and the experience of the man in being received by the mother and being given the “identity of son,” throughout the lifespan, at key developmental stages, as informed by the attachment literature. 

The proposed presentation will outline unhealthy patterns in the mother, son relationship, common to Catholic seminarians and priests. These in turn, will be mapped to common pornographic themes, sexual boundary violations and sexual anorexia. Additionally, due to a changing cultural landscape of current vocations, as addressed in the Program for Priestly Formation, 6th Edition (2022), culturally specific maternal themes will be presented for consideration, including but not limited to Latino, Filipino, Vietnamese, Gen Z and Traditional Latin Mass populations. 

Category of Education: D1.1 Assessment/ Evaluation, Intervention

Intended Audience: 

• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious

Content Learning Level: Intermediate 

Learning Objectives:

1. Assess maternal attachment needs of Catholic seminarians and priests
2. List sexual patterns related to unmet maternal attachment needs of Catholic seminarians and priests
3. Apply assessment of maternal attachment needs, unhealthy sexual patterns and concepts from sexual addiction treatment to a case example

Schedule:

• First 60 minutes: Lecture on Concept
• 30 minutes: Case presentation and treatment application

Description: 
This workshop will review literature on the emotional, physical, and social experiences of detransitioners, focusing on recent research on detransitioner experiences in healthcare and social communities. It will explore the findings of recent studies and their implications for licensed mental health counselors' practice and advocacy, highlighting unique ethical and cultural considerations for working with this population.

Category of Education: D1.3 Practice/Education/Research

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious
• Medical professionals, M.D., P.A., Nurses

Content Learning Level: Beginner, Introductory

Learning Objectives:

1. Define the term detransitioner and describe the unique experiences of detransitioners in medical and mental health settings.
2. Discuss the treatment needs of detransitioners and other gender-diverse clients.
3. Identify ways to improve both clinical treatment and advocacy for gender diverse clients.

Schedule:

• First 60 min -introduce the population and the research design, discuss the process of data collection and needs identified in the initial phase of research, and discuss the identified themes detransitioners experienced in medical and mental health settings
• Last 30 min -discuss the implications for practitioners, Q&A

The Catholic Psychotherapy Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Catholic Psychotherapy Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Description: 
This session will unpack and explain AA's conception of alcoholism and contrast it with a Thomistic view of the problem. Significant focus will be given to understanding AA's 12 steps and its proposed model and principles of recovery. Attention will be given to the influence of Catholicism on the development of AA and its principles. With a clear appreciation of the program as intended by its founders and understood by its members, a summary of the empirical literature on the efficacy of AA will be provided. The session will end with a robust discussion of self-gift and the role the 12 steps play in cultivating this capacity as well as the importance of self-gift in helping members of AA stay sober.   

Category of Education: D1.1 Assessment/ Evaluation, Intervention

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious

Content Learning Level: Beginner, Introductory

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain the 12-steps and underlying principles of AA and how they relate to self-gift
2. Summarize the empirical literature on the efficacy of AA
3. Explore how the 12-steps cultivate the "gift of self" as a treatment for alcoholism

Schedule:

• First 30 minutes: Lecture on the history of AA and its concepts/principles
• Middle 30 minute: Lecture on the empirical evidence and efficacy of AA
• Last 30 minutes: Lecture on the treatment and relevance of AA to the concept of "gift of self". 

The Catholic Psychotherapy Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Catholic Psychotherapy Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Description: Faith is an inner resource that trauma survivors have difficulty accessing due to survival-based nervous system adaptations. Removing obstacles to restoring a felt-sense of safety and connection is vital to lasting recovery and resilience in the face of future stressors. An understanding of the nature of the trauma response (including neurological, developmental, and cognitive-emotional factors) aids case conceptualization, therapeutic alliance, and treatment decision-making. Preparation for trauma processing involves establishing safety in the therapeutic relationship and developing skills in emotional self-regulation. The pros and cons of cognitive processing, in-vivo exposure and EMDR will be outlined to facilitate clinical decision-making. 

Category of Education: D1.1 Assessment/ Evaluation, Intervention

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious
• Medical professionals, M.D., P.A., Nurses

Content Learning Level: Intermediate

Learning Objectives: 

• Participants will be able to explain neuroscience discoveries in meaningful ways to their trauma clients. 
• Participants will be able to effectively assess and prepare trauma clients for trauma processing. 
• Participants will be able to better utilize and integrate Catholic spirituality when processing trauma.

Schedule: First 40 minutes: Understanding the nature of trauma from a neuroscience perspective and being able to relate that to our clients Second 40 minutes: Integrating Catholic spirituality to trauma processing for optimal outcomes. 10-minute: Q & A

Description: 
Professional boundary concerns are consequential for all helping professions, but can be especially difficult to navigate for clergy, where maintaining their professional role across settings and navigating dual relationships with parishioners and staff is often required. If boundary concerns do arise, it can be difficult to determine what interventions may be most helpful to ensure that all boundary concerns are addressed, while providing individualized care to the clergy member. This presentation will provide an overview of professional boundary concerns, including differentiating between boundary crossings and violations, unique factors regarding treatment of professionals, and relevant treatment and return to work considerations.

Category of Education: D1.1 Assessment/ Evaluation, Intervention

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious
• Medical professionals, M.D., P.A., Nurses

Content Learning Level: Beginner, Introductory

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify assessment and treatment implications for professionals with boundary issues.
2. Outline specific types of professional boundary crossings and violations.
3. Discuss potential treatment and aftercare recommendations for professionals with boundary issues.

Schedule:

• First 30: an overview of potential boundary issues for professionals, including specific information regarding the evaluation/treatment of professionals.
• The second 30: provide information regarding specific problematic boundaries for professionals, including both boundary crossings and violations.
• Last 30: review appropriate treatment and aftercare options.

The Catholic Psychotherapy Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Catholic Psychotherapy Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Description: 
The primary aim of this session is to provide insight regarding the role of the virtues in the trauma recovery process. First, this presentation will establish an operational definition of trauma, and demonstrate how that definition has morphed over time. Next, the extant literature on the role of virtue in the healing process will be explored. The presenter will also explore the theology of virtue--and specifically in the context of healing--drawing from Scripture and Tradition. Lastly, these concepts will be applied  to a clinical case study and provide time for the audience to engage in a case conceptualization. 

Category of Education: D1.3 Practice/Education/Research

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious

Content Learning Level: Intermediate

Learning Objectives:

1. Define trauma and post-traumatic growth
2. Summarize the extant literature on the role of the virtues in the trauma recovery process
3. Apply virtue training in their own clinical case conceptualization and practice

Schedule:

• 3 minutes: "turn and talk" prompt
• 7 minutes: whole group discussion
• 60 minutes: lecture on concept
• 20 minutes: group case conceptualization; Q & A 

The Catholic Psychotherapy Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Catholic Psychotherapy Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Description: 
Understanding basic principles related to 12-step recovery is essential for any Catholic pastoral leader, psychotherapist, clinician, and others walking alongside individuals and families navigating addiction. Whether related to alcoholism, drug addiction, compulsive eating behaviors, pornography/lust, gambling, or the compulsive pursuit of other substances and behaviors, integrating Catholic faith into one's 12-step recovery can further enhance the freedom and faith of those we serve. While sharing professional and personal experience, Scott Weeman offers key spiritual and clinical insights rooted in the sacraments, Scripture, and recovery wisdom including the Catholic influence on the development of Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step groups. 

Category of Education: D1.3 Practice/Education/Research

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious
• Medical professionals, M.D., P.A., Nurses

Content Learning Level: Beginner, Introductory

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the parallels between addiction recovery and the sacraments/traditions of the Catholic Church.
2. Apply an understanding of 12-step recovery principles to help individuals and families navigate the challenges posed by addiction.
3. Evaluate the clinical and pastoral needs of their clients and parishioners to recommend Catholic devotions and practices to supplement one's recovery from addiction.

Schedule:

• 40 minutes concept review --Addiction recovery background and Catholic influence --Basic principles of 12-step addiction recovery --Process of change in addiction recovery and clinician's role --Uncovering myths with truths --Integrating the Twelve Steps and the Sacraments
• 20 minutes case examples
• 15 minutes case review and conceptualization
• 15 minutes Q&A

Description: 
The apostles and early Church fathers warned about porneia (i.e., masturbation, fornication, adultery, and prostitution). Today, Internet pornography is widespread. Young men (YM) are particularly vulnerable. Consistent, novelty-driven consumption can lead to addiction, impaired cognition, poor relationships, low self-esteem, and sexual aggression. Among YM with faith orientations, pornography use can cause painful emotional states due to moral incongruence with deeply-held beliefs. This workshop will elucidate the concept of sexual addiction, explore its sequaleae, and present psychological treatments and the ancient techniques of the desert fathers.

Category of Education: D1.1 Assessment/Evaluation, Intervention

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious
• Medical professionals, M.D., P.A., Nurses

Content Learning Level: Intermediate

Learning Objectives:

1. Define and discuss sexual addiction and its correlates and differentiate sexual addiction from non-addictive sexual behaviors.
2. Discuss secular/mainstream techniques to treat sexual addiction, including cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), coping skills training, internal family systems (IFS), and 12-step fellowships.
3. Discuss the techniques that the Desert Fathers used to deal with temptations to engage in pornea, including Identification of Logismoi; resistance against Logismoi; fasting (description); and the use of sacraments.

Schedule:

• 40 minutes: Lecture on Sexual Addictions
• 40 minutes: Clinical applications, integrated treatments, and review of outcome benchmarks.
• 10 minutes: Q & A

The Catholic Psychotherapy Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Catholic Psychotherapy Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Description: 
This presentation focuses on the adverse mental health issues that can occur as the result of an abortion, and the stages of healing that bring new life to an individual who is grieving this loss. The area of emphasis is on post-traumatic stress and prolonged/complicated grief. The four areas of healing – with God, others, the child, and with self are explored in an integrated manner. The focus is on how women suffer, brief mention is given to men, and special notes on teens and healing. The emphasis is on God’s mercy, and compassion, centered in forgiveness.

Category of Education: D1.1 Assessment/ Evaluation, Intervention

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious

Content Learning Level: Beginner, Introductory

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain how PTSD can occur after an abortion.
2. Summarize three concrete aspects of complicated grief that specifically relate to the abortion experience.
3. Apply the 4 steps of the healing process

Schedule:

• 15 min Complicated Grief resulting after abortion 
• 15 min Spiritual complications after abortion 
• 15 min. Integration for spiritual healing 
• 15 min 4 stages of healing 
• 5 min Additional mental health concerns 
• 10 min Men/teenagers
• 15 min Q & A 

Description: The seven values espoused by soldiers in the United States Army of loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage are in perfect continuity with premises highlighted in the Catholic understanding of the human person. Because of the nature of their work, active-duty soldiers and combat veterans are vulnerable to developing symptoms of and meeting diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder. While the application of evidence-based treatment approaches such as prolonged exposure therapy, cognitive processing therapy, written exposure therapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing are considered best practices in the treatment of trauma by the APA, this presentation seeks to highlight the growing body of evidence suggesting that addressing religious and spiritual dimensions of trauma and intertwining spiritually integrated interventions can benefit the healing process and enhance personal growth.

Category of Education: D1.1 Assessment/ Evaluation, Intervention

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious
• Medical professionals, M.D., P.A., Nurses

Content Learning Level: Intermediate 

Learning Objectives: 

• 1. Identify three potentially traumatic events (PTE) to which many active-duty Soldiers are susceptible (Being harmed while deployed, having a friend harmed while deployed, harming another while deployed).
• 2. Describe how evidence-based approaches to therapy effectively treat symptoms of PTSD.
• 3. Discuss how an approach to treatment that integrates Catholic anthropology can provide a broader framework that enhances thorough healing and growth.

Schedule: 

• Military culture and Army values with Catholic anthropology (25 min).
• Case study: MAJ K. (10 min)
• Etiology, symptoms, and approaches to treatment of PTSD (20 min).
• Integrating Catholic anthropological interventions in treatment and its efficacy (25 min).
• Case study: LTC S. (10 min)

Description: 
Discover the transformative potential of Image Transformation Therapy (ImTT), a powerful approach initially developed by Dr. Robert Miller for EMDR therapy and impulse control disorders. Over time, ImTT has evolved into a comprehensive method for treating trauma, addiction, and other mental health challenges. This workshop aims to introduce you to ImTT and The Survival Model of Psychodynamics and provide a clear understanding of their applications in treating trauma and addiction. Additionally, it will explore how these methods can be integrated with a Catholic approach to help individuals overcome barriers and fully express their self-gift.

Category of Education: D1.1 Assessment/ Evaluation, Intervention

Intended Audience: 

• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors

Content Learning Level: Intermediate

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the key elements of Image Transformation Therapy, The Survival Model of Psychodynamics, and the Feeling-State Addiction Protocol.
2. Apply the PTR/P (Pain/Terror Release Protocol), FSAP (Feeling-State Addiction Protocol), and IDP (Image Deconstruction Protocol), IFP (Image Feeling Protocol) protocols in clinical practice.
3. Explain how to integrate the material presented within a Catholic framework of freedom of self-gift.

Schedule:

• Hour 1: Lecture on the core concepts of Image Transformation Therapy (ImTT) and the Survival Model of Psychodynamics. Topics include: Feeling-States PTR/P (Pain/Terror Release Protocol) IDP/IFP (Image Deconstruction Protocol/Image Feeling Protocol) FSAP (Feeling-State Addiction Protocol) Catholic integration
• Last 30 Minutes: Live demonstration with a volunteer.

Description: 
This presentation will argue for the critical importance of St. John Paul II’s personalist anthropology as the unifying theoretical foundation for all Catholic therapy. Rooted in a profound understanding of the human person as a unique and unrepeatable individual made in the image of God, this approach offers a comprehensive philosophical framework that integrates faith and psychology. Participants will explore how this perspective can guide therapeutic practice, ensuring that Catholic therapy is both deeply rooted in tradition and responsive to the diverse needs of individuals today.

Category of Education: D1.3 Practice/Education/Research

Intended Audience: 

• Students
• Psychologists
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
• Clergy/Religious

Content Learning Level: Intermediate

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the core principles of St. John Paul II’s personalist anthropology and their relevance to Catholic therapeutic practices.
2. Analyze the necessity of a unified philosophical foundation in Catholic therapy and evaluate how John Paul II’s approach fulfills this need.
3. Apply the principles of John Paul II’s personalist philosophy in practical therapeutic scenarios to enhance holistic care.

Schedule:

• Introduction (10 min): Overview and importance of philosophical foundations.
• Unified Theory (20 min): Discuss need for a unified orientation in Catholic therapy.
• JP II’s Anthropology (30 min): Explore personalist philosophy and its relevance to therapy.
• Practical Applications (20 min): Integration in therapeutic practice.
• Q&A (10 min): Address participant questions.

The Catholic Psychotherapy Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Catholic Psychotherapy Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.