Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy - Fredric Busch, MD (Recorded self-study)

Problem Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is a modified psychoanalytic treatment approach that addresses patient’s specific problems, including  symptoms, personality issues, relationship struggles, and behavioral difficulties. The primary facets of this treatment approach are described, including identification of problems and their associated triggers and feelings, and developing a psychodynamic formulation to aid therapists in addressing specific areas of difficulty. Modifications of psychodynamic techniques to target problems, including use of the transference, are described. Values of this approach in managing termination and helping the patient to develop psychodynamic skills are also discussed.

Target Audience

______ Introductory                ____x__ Intermediate                ______ Advanced

Learning Objectives

  • Identify components of the psychodynamic formulation.
  • Describe techniques used in problem focused psychodynamic psychotherapy.
  • Describe differences in approaching termination of treatment in Problem Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Compared to usual psychodynamic treatments.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    ACCME - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.00 APA

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for 1.00 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

    Austen Riggs Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0115.

  • 1.00 ASWB-ACE

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this. Social workers completing this Enduring will receive 1.00 continuing education credit(s).

    Austen Riggs Center, Inc is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0843.

  • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
    A certificate of attendance for all Learners.
Course opens: 
05/23/2025
Course expires: 
05/23/2028
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Fredric Busch, MD, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. His writing and research have focused on the links between psychoanalysis and psychiatry, including psychodynamic approaches to specific disorders, psychoanalytic research, and psychoanalysis and medication. He has co-authored five books on the psychoanalytic approaches to specific disorders, including Manual of Panic Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic Treatment of Depression (second edition), Psychodynamic Approaches to the Adolescent with Panic Disorder, Panic Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, eXtended Range, and Trauma Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. He is the sole author of Psychodynamic Approaches to Behavioral Change and Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Additionally, he co-authored the book Psychotherapy and Medication: The Challenge of Integration. He has written on integrating biological and psychological/emotional models for panic disorder and trauma. He has been involved in research on panic focused psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychodynamic treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. His efforts have included the development of treatments, training of therapists and treatment of patients in several studies. These studies led to the first psychodynamic treatment of a DSM anxiety disorders to demonstrate efficacy, panic focused psychodynamic psychotherapy. He has received numerous awards for his teaching, clinical work, and research from the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Payne Whitney Clinic (Weill Cornell Medical College) and the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

 

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Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    ACCME - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.00 APA

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for 1.00 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

    Austen Riggs Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0115.

  • 1.00 ASWB-ACE

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this. Social workers completing this Enduring will receive 1.00 continuing education credit(s).

    Austen Riggs Center, Inc is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0843.

  • 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
    A certificate of attendance for all Learners.
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