Here's some of the FAP options at ABCT this coming week/weekend:

Thursday, 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Institute 7:
Psychotherapy Supervision: An Experiential Model Based on Functional
Analytic Psychotherapy for Enhancing the CBT Supervisory Process
Mavis Tsai, Private Practice, Seattle, and University of Washington,
and Robert J. Kohlenberg, Reo Newring, Christeine Terry, Mary
Plummer, Ursula Whiteside, Cory Sechrist, and Sarah Bowen, University
of Washington

Challenge yourself and your supervisees by creating a supervisory
process that requires participants to be open, vulnerable, honest,
and present. In this Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) model of
supervision, therapy is not only taught didactically, but
experientially. FAP is a system of therapy that uses behavioral
principles to account for the central role that intimacy plays in the
therapist-client relationship in producing change. In FAP
supervision, the emotional closeness that underlies a strong
therapeutic alliance is first experienced by the therapist in his or
her supervisory relationship. Supervisees learn to develop ethically
responsible therapeutic skills to increase therapist-client intimacy
leading to more effective CBT. Based on the "in-vivo learning is
best" principle, the FAP supervisory process focuses on how the
supervisor-therapist relationship provides special opportunities for
improving the therapist-client relationship. Through videotapes,
demonstrations, clinical worksheets and handouts, and a brief
explanation of FAP theory, the presenters (both supervisors and
supervisees) will outline how supervision can be enhanced when the
parallel process is addressed between supervisor/therapist and
therapist/client.

Friday, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Master Clinician Seminar 3
Low familiarity with FAP; moderate familiarity with CBT; and moderate
experience in treating disorders such as depression, anxiety, OCD and
problems of the self.

Supercharging CBT With Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Maximizing
Therapeutic Impact by Using the Client-Therapist Relationship
Robert J. Kohlenberg, University of Washington, and Mavis Tsai,
Independent Practice, Seattle

Learn how to increase the emotional intensity and interpersonal focus
of your CBT. The presenters will use videotaped illustrations and
experiential exercises to provide a conceptual and practical
framework that will help you supercharge your next therapy session.
Their research and clinical work are informed by sound behavioral
principles described in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP;
Kohlenberg & Tsai, 1991). FAP is user-friendly and employs functional
analysis to help therapists recognize special opportunities for using
the client-therapist relationship. Topics to be covered include: (a)
how to make your clients' learning experiences more powerful by
recognizing the subtle ways their daily life problems are brought
into the therapeutic relationship, (b) how and why a simple
modification to the commonly used dysfunctional thought record sets
the scene for increasing the intensity of the therapy session, (c)
how to make your clients' hidden cognitions and behaviors more
visible, (d) how to use experiential exercises to help your clients
contact deeper feelings and improve interpersonal skills, and (e) a
brief explanation of the theory that underlies all of the above. The
techniques you will learn are applicable to almost any disorder,
including depression, anxiety, OCD, intimacy issues, and problems of
the self.