Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy and
Structural Analysis of Social Behavior
are two, related methods for helping a wide range clients in psychotherapy, especially those with longstanding interpersonal problems, complex trauma, and personality disorder
What are IRT and SASB?
Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy (IRT), created by Dr. Lorna Smith Benjamin, is a compassionate and attachment-oriented way of intervening that is tailored based on an individualized understanding of the deep, tricky, unyielding ways we subconsciously hold on to our self-destructive patterns.
Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) is a tailorable tool that IRT clinicians (and clinical researchers) use to measure, understand, and make it possible to work with even very complex relationship patterns spanning across an individual’s life history
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Workshops & Webinars
Monday, December 15th 11am - 2pm EST
Using SASB and IRT to develop a Clinical Case Formulation
This beginner-friendly workshop gives an overview for use of Lorna Smith Benjamin’s Structural Analysis of Social Behavior model (SASB: Benjamin, 1974; 1996) to develop clinical case formulations rooted in copy process theory. SASB is a descriptive measure of interpersonal behavior used to track patterns described within and across relationships. It is organized around the three distinctions of Focus, Affiliation, and Interdependence, and can be very helpful to refine and focus work with clients who experience interpersonal problems (including their relationship to themselves) as well as the variety of affective, cognitive, and behavioral disturbances that flow from and contribute to those problems. The workshop will introduce the model and case formulation framework. Real-life examples will be used to illustrate application of the approach. Time will be provided for scaffolded application of the method to attendees’ current clients, as well as Q&A.
Presenters: Dr. Ken Critchfield and Dr. Eliza Stucker-Rozovsky
The workshop is online and will be recorded (no CEs available for post-workshop viewing)
Workshop fee for professionals: $180
Psychology graduate student rate: $75
Length of Workshop: 3hrs
CE Credits: 3
LO’s:
Participants will be able to:
(1) Describe the SASB model in terms of its three underlying dimensions of Focus, Affiliation, and Interdependence
(2) Use SASB to describe patient patterns in the present
(3) Use SASB to identify copy process patterns
(4) Interpret interpersonal case formulation patterns at a level that can enhance and inform psychotherapy interventions
November 7, 9:00am -12pm EST (3-6pm central European time)
The SASB model with a Focus on Case Formulation
A webinar sponsored by the Society for Psychotherapy Research – Italy Chapter
Registration is in Italian, Presentation is in English
IRT Peer Consult Group with Dr. Ken Critchfield
For advanced IRT practitioners for ongoing maintenance of skills and support for work with difficult cases. CE’s available.
For acceptance into the sequence email Dr. Critchfield
Coming Soon!
IRT Certification training sequence. Anticipated to be 12-15 sessions, for experienced/established mental health practitioners, with CEs available.
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Dr. Lorna Smith Benjamin and Dr. Ken Critchfield
Dr. Lorna Smith Benjamin is the founder and creator of Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy and Structural Analysis of Social Behavior. She is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Utah and Founder of the Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy Clinic at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute (UNI). Dr. Benjamin is now in retirement and is not formally or directly affiliated with the IRT Institute
Dr. Ken Critchfield is a therapist, supervisor, and Program Director of the Clinical Psychology Program of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University. He is the co-author of the SASB Guide for Clinical Use, and continues to help share the invaluable insights Lorna brought into the world. He has spent is life dedicated to understanding and helping those who have needed a higher level of care and compassion as they work towards healing.
Drs Benjamin and Critchfield have worked closely together for almost 2 decades and the ongoing development of her life's work in SASB and IRT is central to the institute's mission. Their wisdom and compassion continue to help those who have needed more than standard treatment to heal.