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Dmitrii Kovpak is Associate Professor of the Department of General and Medical Psychology and Pedagogy of North-Western State Medical University n. a. I. I. Mechnikov (Saint-Petersburg). He is the author of more than hundred scientific articles and twelve scientific monographs and popular science books about psychotherapy, and a founder and the organizer of 3 countrywide conferences: «Clinical Pavlovian readings» (since 2000); «Actual aspects of psychosomatics in general medical practice» (since 2003); and round tables in the framework of the program «Modern practice in psychiatry» (since 2002).

KEYNOTE ABSTRACT

Difficult people. How to communicate with them?
Problems of efficiency of communication are closely connected with personal characteristics of both parties entering into communication, and a problem of formation of constructive contact and consideration of participants motivation. Interpsychic conflicts are derivatives of intrapsychic. And they can be diagnosed and addressed by means of the formation of the system of self-regulation skills, and effective communication. Cognitive behavioral therapy provides a wide arsenal of technologies of diagnosis and therapy for the correction of problems in communication. Cognitive distortions, dysfunctional thoughts and beliefs, metacognition and non-verbal behavior can be subjected to functional analysis and become therapeutic targets for further revision and readaptation. Changing belief systems with one hand and filling in deficits in social, communicative and self-regulation competencies on the other hand can help in building meaningful and productive relationships and communication with difficult people and clients.