New Zealand psychologists, gain valuable insights from Dr. Schmidt Neven's CPD on Time-Limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. This talk offers a fresh perspective, challenging the perceived monopoly of CBT in brief therapy and introducing a relational, contextual psychodynamic model. Learn to decode behaviours as communication and apply brief interventions to foster resilience and lasting internal change in your New Zealand clients.
In this engaging and thought-provoking presentation, Dr. Schmidt Neven challenges prevailing assumptions about time-limited treatment models, particularly the dominance of CBT as the only evidence-based short-term modality. Drawing on decades of clinical and teaching experience, Dr. Schmidt Neven introduces a dynamic, time-limited psychodynamic model that is both relational and contextual—applicable to work with adults, children, adolescents, and parents.
Rather than viewing behaviours as merely symptoms of dysfunction, this approach considers behaviour as meaningful communication. Presenting problems are reframed as expressions of lived experience: adults ‘speak’ their life stories, while children ‘speak’ the emotional landscape of their families. Dr. Schmidt Neven highlights how brief psychodynamic interventions, grounded in reflective capacity and meaning-making, can provide lasting internal change and emotional resilience.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this talk, participants will be able to:
Describe the principles and structure of time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy
Contrast this approach with commonly held assumptions about both CBT and long-term psychodynamic treatment
Recognise behavioural symptoms as meaningful expressions of emotional and relational experience
Apply a reflective, psychodynamically informed stance to brief clinical work with both adults and children
Understand how short-term psychodynamic interventions can foster enduring internal change and resilience