What: Virtual learning opportunity with BCPA, presented over Zoom
When: Friday 10/03/2025 at 1pm - 4pm CDT
Number of CE Credits: 3 CE Hours
CE Credits Available to: Licensed Psychologists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
Register here: October Workshop Registration
A Framework for Integrating Neuroscience into Clinical Practice
Presented by Dr. Rowland Folensbee, PhD
About This Virtual Workshop:
This three-hour presentation provides a framework within which psychologists’ personal stores of knowledge regarding neuroscience can be integrated and then applied to understanding and implementing psychotherapy and assessment processes. The framework is comprised of six primary elements:
1. The neuropsychological model for understanding input-process-out of cognitive and emotional experience;
2. Neural networks;
3. Implicit and explicit memory;
4.Affect;
5. Anxiety;
6. Human development.
Core, overarching brain processes within each element are explained and the clinical relevance of each process for understanding clients’ behavioral and psychological manifestations is delineated. Findings from basic research, clinical outcome studies, and observations of individual therapy cases are incorporated into the presentation. Participants are helped to identify how their clients’ behaviors and verbalizations can facilitate assessment of underlying neuropsychological processes. At the same time, understanding their clients’ underlying neuropsychological processes in an integrated way can be used to support assessments and interventions undertaken within any psychotherapeutic model. Throughout the presentation, discussion breaks will be provided to guide participants in applying each element of the framework to their interventions with their clients. The initial presentation of the framework is kept simple enough that psychology students early in training can grasp and apply the concepts. However, based on the complexity of the overall framework, advanced clinicians can benefit from understanding they can glean from integrating neuroscience into already well-developed conceptions of treatment.
Learning Objectives:
Based on the content of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Identify six elements of a neuroscience framework for integrating neuroscience into
psychotherapy and clinical assessment.Identify five sets of cognitive processes comprising a neuropsychological framework
for considering information processing during clinical work.Identify at least four characteristics of neural networks that influence integration and
differentiation of clinical information.Describe how implicit and explicit memories differ in amount of repetition needed for
clinical change.Describe the role of the thalamus in triggering anxiety without conscious awareness.
About Speaker
Rowland Folensbee, Ph.D., is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice in San Antonio working with children, adolescents, and adults. He is also a Licensed Specialist in School Psychology with twenty-five years of experience consulting in schools. His professional background has included private practice in Houston and San Antonio, Director of Clinical Psychology Services in a private psychiatric hospital, and past membership on adjunct clinical faculties of Baylor College of Medicine and University of Texas Health Sciences Center-San Antonio. He is the author of The Neuroscience of Psychological Therapies, published by Cambridge University Press. He has published articles and presented lectures related to neuroscience in psychotherapy, cross-cultural psychotherapy, and worry. He served as an examiner for the oral boards of the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists. Current areas of focus include exploring the implications of neuroscience for psychotherapy process and training, completing in-depth psychological assessments, and conducting psychotherapy with children, adolescents and adults.
Cost for this workshop (early registration discount!):
Student Members $30
Members $60
Non-Members $80
Early registration discount will end on September 12, 2025, and after that $15 will be added to each price.
Register here: October Workshop Registration
With questions, please email bexarpsych@gmail.com.