COURSES ▶ MARCH WORKSHOP

The 37th Annual March Workshop:
What Does Your Patient (Really) Need? How to be the Best Therapist for Each Patient

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Being the best therapist means moving beyond one-size-fits-all approaches and tailoring treatment to each individual patient.

Live Online Conference on Zoom

Thursday March 6, 2025

9:00 am-12:50 pm PST - on Zoom

Friday March 7, 2024

9:00 am-12:50 pm PST - on Zoom

Saturday March 8, 2024

9:00 am-4:30 pm PST - on Zoom

OR in-person in San Francisco

Instructors:
Nancy McWilliams, PhD; George Silberschatz, PhD; Trevor Ahrendt, PsyD; Francesco Gazzillo, PhD; Kevin McCarthy, PhD; David Kealy, PhD; James McCollum, PhD; John Curtis, PhD; Pamela Lyss-Lerman, MD; Paige Pires de Almeida, MFT

The most important guide for doing this is the patient themselves. Patients often try to help their therapists help them more effectively. This conference focuses on approaches from several perspectives on how to understand patient problems and needs to personalize treatment.

Featuring Nancy McWilliams

Nancy McWilliams, PhD, APBB, is a Visiting Professor Emerita at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and has a private practice in Lambertville, NJ. Dr. McWilliams is a widely acclaimed author, teacher and supervisor and gives clinical workshops all over the world!

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to provide participants with perspectives on personalizing psychotherapy. This workshop focuses on what therapists can do to optimize therapeutic effectiveness as well as to recognize and respond to a patient's unique problems and needs. We have invited experts from different theoretical approaches to describe their theories and approaches, including from SFPRG’s own fifty year history of empirical research and clinical practice.

This course will cover:

Why the patient’s perspective is critical to achieving the best outcomes in psychotherapy

How to Identify clinical strategies to personalize therapy to a particular patient

How case formulation can be used to understand the patient’s problems, needs, and optimize treatment to those needs

Schedule

Course Level: Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced

CE Credits: 15 APA approved CE hours. If you would like CEU's you should indicate so during registration. COA's will be sent within 30 days of the class. You must arrive on time to the course and stay for the entirety of the program to receive CE credit.

Registration Costs: $300 for General Public
$225 for SFPRG Members $225 for Early Career (Licensed 5 years of less)
$75 for Students (No CEU's or CME)

The Personalized Psychotherapy Institute (PPI) is the education wing of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group (SFPRG)

CME Credits: SFPRG designates this for a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

SFPRG is accredited by the California Medical Association (CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

All planners and all presenters for this educational activity have no financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

registrations

Registration Opens: Monday January 6, 2025

Registration Closes: Thursday March 5, at 6pm

Course Schedule: If you would like know more about the schedule for this event please contact our front office at cmt@sfprg.org or 415-561-6771

Cancellation Policy: No refunds are provided for this event. If you have questions about your registration, please contact our office at cmt@sfprg.org 415-561-6771

Co-sponsorship: There is no co-sponsor of this event.

Commercial Support: There is no known commercial support for this program.