Although the Conversational Model began as an approach to seeing difficult patients, often on the wards as well as outpatients and of varying length, it became more associated in Australia with intensive long term therapy for complex trauma. This talk will instead outline some of the various shorter term applications of the CM including: 1) ultra- brief work in the ED, clinic, wards or general practice; 2) Formal Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (PIT) of 4-8 sessions and its evidence base; 3) the CM as a model of trauma-informed care for individual clinicians and team, including acute care teams and their supervision.
A later talk will focus on the STDIP. This talk will outline the common framework of fostering the bond with the patient, developing a shared understanding of the problem (the formulation) to inform an agreement on treatment and the way real experience and feeling language are used to help the healing process.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this lecture the student will be able to:
1) Describe several shorter term applications of the Conversational Model
2) Outline the evidence base for Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (PIT)
3) Take a framework of the process common to shorter term work in the CM to
their clinical encounters: fostering the bond; developing a share
understanding (formulation) and using feeling and feeling language in the
session.