The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter ACBS is proud to present
An Interpersonal Behavior Therapy Framework
For Contextual Behavioral Therapists:
Effecting Change with Relational Probelms In and Out of Session
with
Glenn Callaghan, PhD
A 2-Day In-Person Experiential Training
Friday April 10 and Saturday April 11, 2026
Location: San Mateo College
3401 CSM Drive Building 5 Room 290
San Mateo, CA 94402
12 CEs for Psychologists, LCSWs, LMFTs and LPCCs
(PENDING APPROVAL)
Course Description:
This workshop provides attendees with an introduction to using an Interpersonal Behavior Therapy (IBT) framework to conceptualize and treat clients who struggle connecting with and relating to others. IBT is a principle-based and functional contextual approach focusing on the dynamic interaction between the client, community members, and the therapist with the goal to help alleviate client distress and create more effective interpersonal repertoires. With their case conceptualization, therapists focus on helping create client change by developing their ability to relate to others and form deeper relationships.
In this workshop we will discuss the IBT model and the goal of interpersonal flexibility, moving from patterns of reactivity to intentionality. Our focus will include helping clients behave with intention using the basic skills of noticing with sensitivity and responding with variability. This emphasis on behaving with intention is central to creating a dynamic idiographic case conceptualization that identifies both less effective skill sets as well as interpersonal targets for improvements. An overview of the Functional Idiographic Assessment Template (FIAT-2) will be provided to help conceptualize challenges and strengths for the client, for specific members of their community, and for the therapist, a figure central to effecting clinical change.
Workshop attendees will learn the principles and strategies of conducting interventions within an IBT framework (consistent with and built upon those outlined in earlier forms of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy). Participants will learn how to notice and respond to in-session client behaviors as they relate to clinical problems outside of therapy in an effort to support and increase effective interpersonal repertoires and to help clients move from less effective, problematic interaction patterns. We will discuss the advantages of responding to clinical improvements during therapy and the need to explicitly extend clinical change out-of-session with others. Attendees will be introduced to responding to client problem behaviors in-session and the challenges of doing this effectively, given our own repertoires. The workshop will conclude with discussing the role of advanced training, consultation, and the importance of ethical development in IBT.
In this workshop, we will use video roleplays with clients struggling with interpersonal difficulties in their relationships, co-creating conceptualizations and identifying where, how, and why we might respond. Participants will engage in mini-role plays responding in the moment to different client problems or improvements based on assumed conceptualizations. Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss clients, roleplay clinical situations, and discuss the importance of their own case conceptualizations.
Target Audience:
This workshop is appropriate for:
- Mental health professionals including social workers, counselors, psychiatrists and psychologists
- Clinicians who are interested in the relationship in therapy
Course Objectives:
After attending this training you will be able to
1. Identify the context for an interpersonal focus in contextual behavioral science interventions
2. Specify the IBT model and importance of dynamic idiographic case conceptualization and interpersonal flexibility
3. Develop a basic understanding and value of assessing the function of clinical behaviors
4. Recognize the three relevant repertoires in interpersonally focused behavioral interventions
5. Identify the role of the heuristics of behaving with intention and notice & do
6. Recognize the difference and value of reactivity and intentionality in responding
7. Define and assess for sensitivity to context and variability in responding
8. Recognize the three levels of intention as they relate to the purpose and impact of responding
9. Become familiar with the template for assessment and conceptualization [FIAT-2]
10. Identify the unit of analysis in IBT as an interaction of two people engaging in two roles
11. Recognize the role intended function vs. actual impact (function) with client and therapist behavior
12. Become aware of the principles and processes of IBT and FAP mechanisms of change
13. Be able to create a basic dynamic idiographic case conceptualization to guide treatment
14. Notice and develop responses to in-session improvements with representative and natural reinforcers
15. Recognize the challenge of responding to problems in-session and the goal of shaping approximations to improvements
16. Identify strategies and obstacles to extending client responding out of session into their community
17. Become aware of the therapist’s repertoire and identify strengths and areas of growth or improvement
18. Clarify the importance of training, supervision, and ethical development
Presenter:
Glenn Callaghan, Ph.D.
Dr. Glenn Callaghan earned his PhD from University of Nevada in 1998. Since that time he has been a professor of psychology at San Jose State University where he conducts research, teaches, and directed the Masters Clinical Psychology program. He has published extensively in the areas of interpersonal psychotherapy and functional assessment. His research also focuses on interpersonal relationship factors in psychotherapy and idiographic assessment and classification systems. As a therapist, he treated clients and conducts supervision and consultation from a functional contextual and cognitive behavioral perspective focusing on both intra- and interpersonal repertoires, utilizing mindfulness based strategies consistent with ACT.
His goal is to help psychotherapists learn to conceptualize cases using clinical behavior analysis to allow them to select interventions that best suit the individual contextual variables of the client using the mechanisms of change offered by the therapy.
Personally, Glenn plays a lot of guitar, learning about Buddhism, and loves hanging out with family and friends.
Fees:
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Professional Member early - By March 1
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$370
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Professional Member regular
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$420
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Professional Nonmember early – By March 1
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$405
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Professional Nonmember regular
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$455
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Student/Intern Member or Non Member
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$180
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| CE Fee |
$30 |
Join the Chapter and get the member discount
for this training and for future trainings in the next year
https://sfba-acbs.wildapricot.org/Join-The-Chapter
Included in the fees: 12 hours of instruction, handouts, coffee/tea and snacks. CEs are awarded contingent on timely post-event paperwork submission by event organizers
Training Schedule
Detailed Schedule to Come!
Disclosures:
The costs of this workshop are completely supported by participant fees
Refund Policy
If you cancel your registration:
21 or more days before the date of the event, we’ll refund all of your registration fee or give you credit to a future event;
20 to 7 days before the event, we’ll refund 75% of your fee;
Fewer than 7 days before an event, we’ll refund 50% of your fee.
If you don’t cancel before the event begins, we can’t refund your fees, but we’ll give you a credit toward a future event in the amount of 50% of your registration fee. If we cancel an event for any reason, of course, we’ll refund all of your registration fees. Continuing-education certification fees can be refunded until the day before the event. They become non-refundable on the first day of the event. Continuing-education certification purchased at an event is non-refundable.
If you have any questions about the event please contact Ellen Ross at drellenross@gmail.com