APA Psychotherapy Caucus

DRAFT APA PSYCHOTHERAPY WEBPAGE CONTENT

MAIN SECTIONS FOR FIRST ITERATION

• What is Psychotherapy?
•            Overview
•            Psychotherapy Skills in Diverse Settings
• Education and Training

• CME, workshops, online training, post-graduate training

• Techniques of Psychotherapy

• For Trainees and Early Career Psychiatrists

• Neuroscience of Psychotherapy

• APA Psychotherapy Caucus

TOPICS TO ADD LATER

• Psychotherapy Research

• Psychotherapy by Psychiatrists

 

SOME DETAILS FOR CONTENT

• What is Psychotherapy?  

•                    Overview (Jeffery’s infographic?)

1. 1. • Psychotherapy Skills in Diverse Settings
        1.  Psychopharmacology visits (David Mintz?)
        2. Inpatient psychiatry (Stuart Beck?)
        3. Partial hospital/Day programs (John Chardavoyne?)
        4. Consultation-Liaison (Julia Frank, also Hindi Mermelstein?)
        5. Addiction (John Chardavoyne?)
        6. Collaborative (Primary) Care (need someone)
        7. Maternal health (Julia Frank)

• Education and Training

1. 1. • Psychotherapy-oriented CME, workshops, and trainings (Richard Kim, Laura Black)
   2.  
      • Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic training
      • (link to Austen Riggs, analytic institutes)
      • Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) with certification
      • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with certification
      • Group (link)
      • Family and Couples (Ellen Berman)
      • Child and Adolescent (Alyse Eytan, Zev Zingher)
      • Techniques of Psychotherapy (Jeffery Smith?)
        1. Listening and interviewing skills
        2. Common factors
        3. Supportive psychotherapy
        4. Integrative therapy
      • Psychotherapy journals (link to David Mintz’s list)
      • Professional organizations for psychiatrist-psychotherapists (link to David Mintz’s list)
      • Psychotherapy fellowship in the United Kingdom (David Mintz provide link?)

• For Trainees and Early Career Psychiatrists (Eric Debbold? Jonathan Nahmias?)

1. 1. • Psychiatry Student Interest Group Network (PsychSIGN)
      • Basic readings for beginners in psychotherapy (link to list we already have)
      • Learning more about psychotherapy—for medical students (Michael Tom, MD)
      • Finding a psychotherapy-supportive residency
      • Psychotherapy-related organizations with free or reduced-rate membership for Trainees
      • Keeping the interest in psychotherapy alive through training
      • Building Psychotherapy into your early practice

• Neuroscience of Psychotherapy

1. 1. • Drs Smith, Geltman, and Ramamurthy (Need 1-2 intro paragraphs, links to more detailed exposition)

• APA Psychotherapy Caucus

1. • Mission statement
   • Steering Committee members, contact info
   • JOIN the Caucus (link)
   • Setting up a Psychotherapy Committee at your local state society or district branch 
   • Wit v UBH: Judge Spero’s ruling, with relevance to psychotherapy (Eric Plakun provide link?)
   • Clinical necessity guidelines for psychotherapy
   • Resource Document on Psychotherapy as an Essential Skill of Psychiatrists

 

TO DEVELOP LATER:

Psychotherapy by Psychiatrists

• Psychotherapy by psychiatrists – Practicing at the top of the psychiatric license
• Combining medications and psychotherapy (David Mintz)
• Patient preferences (Ruby C. Castilla-Puentes?)
• Psychotherapy and the biopsychosocial model

    Psychotherapy Research

• Paper selection criteria 
  •    Meta-analyses
  •    6-10 key papers for each discipline – selected by some experts
  •    Avoid papers that are divisive
  •    Vetting by/with Council on Research
• Crowdsource: ask people to write a brief (1-2 paragraph summary) of the relevant research for each major approach, so that people looking at research can get the big picture without having to read the studies