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The Baltimore Psychotherapy Institute

Certificate Program in Psychotherapy

Now accepting deposits for classes beginning Fall 2006.

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            The Baltimore Psychotherapy Institute is committed to psychotherapy as a safe, effective, first-line treatment for most emotional and behavioral difficulties that provides lasting solutions to difficult problems.  Our approach to treatment is patient-centered and stresses clinician accountability and flexibility.  In an era where clinical practice is increasingly fragmented by proprietary systems and claims, the Baltimore Psychotherapy Institute is dedicated to teaching and practicing the essential components that make all psychotherapy effective and useful.

BPI offers post-graduate education tailored to today’s complex clinical environment, where  psychotherapy is challenged by managed care, budget cuts, and diverse and complicated patient populations.  Agency and individual practice have become more demanding as support and training for psychotherapy has eroded, and the Certificate Program in Psychotherapy from the Baltimore Psychotherapy Institute is designed to offer clinicians advanced training focused on positive patient outcomes.

Our post-graduate Certificate Program allows therapists to operate securely in today’s accountable practice environment by keeping a keen eye on patient outcomes and therapist effectiveness.  Training sessions include consideration of essential issues like addictions, trauma and recovery, suicidality and dangerousness, difficult patients and personality disorders, family and couples therapy, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and narrative therapy strategies, as well as general practice management and ethical and professional conduct.

This course will focus on treating patients presenting with a variety of common clinical issues.  We will draw upon several theoretical perspectives in order to understand patients and in order to be better able to treat them.  All modules of the course will concentrate on patient-centered models of treatment which stress treatment efficacy and are outcome oriented.

The Certificate Program will meet twice each month, September, 2005 through May, 2006.  Meetings will occur on Wednesday evenings from 7-8:30pm.  The first meeting of each month will be used to explore theoretical issues and questions, while the second meeting will be devoted to a case conference in which participants’ clinical material will be examined and supervised.

Modules will include:

Mood & Anxiety Disorders,

Trauma,

Outcomes & Effectiveness,

Addictions,

Psychotropic Medications & Working with Psychiatrists,

Serious & Persistent Mental Illness,

Suicidality & Dangerousness,

Narrative & Psychodynamic Theoretical Approaches,

Character Disorders & Boundary Management.

CEUs:  30 Hours                Program Fee:  $599 (includes attendance at the BPI annual conference)