Psychoanalytic Assessment Interest Group Presents- When A Psychodiagnostician Wishes Their Therapy Patient Had Testing: Hoops, Pitfalls, and End Results
Every psychodiagnostician should refer at least one of their own psychotherapy patients for testing. It helps to have a first-hand experience of what it feels like to wish for answers, to have to formulate questions, to experience self doubts and self consciousness. It helps as well to be the one encountering and working with the surprise, skepticism, and nervousness of your patient when you raise the issue of testing; to field their questions; and most importantly to learn what integrating test findings into the work actually looks like on the ground. We will explore the unexpected hoops and tangles arising in therapy when testing is raised, identify pitfalls and how to navigate them, and discuss details of how a sensitive therapist-tester collaboration can become transformative for a patient. This Webinar will be a breakdown of how testing can matter (significantly) to an ongoing psychotherapy process.
Presenter: Dr. Mary Jo Peebles
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this Webinar participants will be able to:
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Translate therapeutic snags into testing questions, and appreciate the range of feelings a referring therapist may experience
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Understand that referring for testing is a process rather than an inert recommendation; that it interfaces with and affects the therapist-patient relationship; and that it can bring to light hidden conflicts, defenses, transference, and countertransference
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Describe elements of a therapeutically optimal therapist-tester collaboration
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Explain 3 ways testing feedback can be tailored to the patient’s needs, and describe how feedback differs from integrating findings into the psychotherapy work
The Society for Personality Assessment (SPA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SPA maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Society for Personality Assessment 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-0218.
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Non-Member Student Registration
Presenter: Dr. Mary Jo Peebles |
FREE |
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Non-Member Early Career Registration
Presenter: Dr. Mary Jo Peebles |
$35.00 |
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Non-Member Registration
Presenter: Dr. Mary Jo Peebles |
$50.00 |
Dr. Mary Jo Peebles is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist. She trained under the Boulder scientist-practitioner model, with Irving Weiner as both her Department head and dissertation advisor. This graduate model locked in a bi-directional synergy for her between data and clinical perception, and Weiner locked in a rigorous approach to psychological reasoning. In her Pinal year, he urged her to augment her training with a Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Menninger Clinic, stating that their two-year, specialized training in psychoanalytically-informed psychological testing was her best path toward sharpening her psychotherapy skills. He was right. The legacies of David Rapaport, Herb Schlesinger, Marty Mayman, and others taught her how to recognize thought disorder, wobbling stability, healthy vs strained defenses, and capacity for relatedness, all from how a person spoke and what they perceived. At Menninger, she was able to follow the course and outcome of patients she had tested, and then retest them, seeing the particulars of how therapy had changed the organization of their minds. She learned treatments spanning a few sessions as an outpatient, to those of a several-year inpatient milieu; and she worked with issues spanning change of life adjustments all the way to schizophrenia. Dr. Peebles learned and taught at Menninger for nearly 20 years, and it was there she met Dr. Bram, who later approached her to collaborate with him on the book, Psychological Testing That Matters. Dr. Peebles has taught nationally and internationally on testing, therapy, and trauma, and she has authored two different editions of Beginnings: The Art and Science of Planning Psychotherapy, along with When Psychotherapy Feels Stuck. She currently resides in Beacon, NY, consulting, teaching, and at work on her next book.
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