This document summarizes a continuing education conference on Control Mastery Theory held from March 2-6, 2015. It provides up to 30 hours of CE credit for LCSWs, MFTs, and psychologists. Participants attend morning seminars on Control Mastery theory and practice and have the opportunity to take afternoon courses on specific clinical applications and theoretical topics. Course topics that year included using measure-based feedback to enhance treatment, interruptions in the authority of the self, and using Control Mastery Theory with survivors of childhood abuse. An introduction to Control Mastery Theory was also offered on February 28, 2015.

1. Continuing Education credit is approved for all of the listed live classes. More information including Educational Objectives on www.sfprg.org
L.C.S.W.s/M.F.C.C.s: SFPRG is a provider approved by the Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider Number PCE104, for CE credit on an hour-for-
hour basis.
PSYCHOLOGISTS: SFPRG is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SFPRG
maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
March 2 - 6, 2015. Monday - Friday, 10 am - 5:15 pm. Up to 30 CE hours
At the San Francisco Psychotherapy Reasearch Group, Clinic and Training Center
Conference participants attend a 2-hour seminar each morning, Monday-Friday (10
hours). They are assigned to one of two groups on the basis of their level of knowledge
(new vs. returning participants) about Control-Mastery theory and practice. Each
participant has the opportunity to attend two 2-hour courses each afternoon. The
afternoon sessions offer participants the opportunity to pursue their individual interests.
Theoretical courses take up questions about how therapy works, about techniques,
about the concept unique to Control Mastery theory stating that patients work
according to a conscious or unconscious plan, the nature of the therapeutic process,
plan formulations, assessment of therapeutic change, and comparison of Control -
Mastery Theory to other past and contemporary theories.
Clinical applications will be studied in small classes concerning the treatment of
children, couples; of difficult adult cases, and other select topics. Participants in these
courses are sometimes encouraged to present their own cases. Participants may also
elect to have one individual consultation with an experienced Control Mastery teacher
for an opportunity to see how this theory may be applied to a case of their own.
This year, classes from which to choose will include: Using measure-based
feedback to enhance treatment; Interruptions in the authority of the Self; DBT
informed CMT; Using CMT with survivors of childhood physical and sexual
abuse; Safety within the treatment of complex PTSD & other anxiety disorders; Erotic
countertransference; and more. Our basic core classes on pathogenic beliefs, plan
formulation, and testing will be offered as well.
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Introduction to Control Mastery Theory
Steven A. Foreman, M.D., & Susan Landes, Psy.D., MFT
Saturday, February 28, 2015, 9 am - 4:15 pm. 6 hours CE $50, JCCSF
This day-long course will present an overview of Control Mastery therapy -- how
psychopathology develops and how psychotherapy works -- developed by Joseph Weiss and
empirically tested by the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group. Case examples will be
illustrated with audio-taped clinical material of patients with emotion regulation and impulse
control problems in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. In the afternoon, audience participants will
have opportunities to present cases and watch clinical enactments to illustrate the theory and
generate useful case formulations.
More information including educational objectives and registration on www.sfprg.org
The San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group presents:
28th Annual International Conference
on Control Mastery Theory