One-Day Workshop, 10 January 2014, London, UK

Overall Learning Objectives:

At the end of this course participants will understand how to incorporate attachment theory, anxiety regulation and positive emotions (including play, care and love) when working with patients who have a fragile sense of self and relational difficulties. Participants will participate in interactive exercises and learn how to integrate neurological and affect research into their clinical practice.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to assess ‘Receptive Capacity’
• Learn when and how to do Defense Restructuring
• Learn when and how to do Anxiety Regulation
• Learn how to assess and intervene with positive emotions
• Learn when to ‘Expose and Desensitize’ for ‘Closeness’

Learning Methods:

• Power-point Presentation
• Video-Segments of Psychotherapy
• Case Presentation with Video Segment
• Role-Playing
• APT Publications

Literature:

• Treating Affect Phobia:  A Manual for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy by Leigh McCullough, Nat Kuhn, Stuart Andrews, Jonathon Wolf, Amelia Kaplan, and Cara Lanza Hurley

• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories by a Child Psychiatrist, by Bruce Perry

• The Archeology of the Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions by Jaak  Panksepp and Lucy Biven (2012)

• Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown and Christopher Vaugn (2010)

• Course hand-outs and power-point presentation

Film:

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Friday, January 10, 2014

10-11:30 am                         Introduction

Self-Restructuring

Attachment Style

Video Segment: My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Therapist ‘Use of Self’

11:30 am-11:45 am             Break

11:45 am-1:00 pm                Defense Restructuring

Anxiety Regulation

Exposure and Desensitization to ‘Closeness’

Video Segment: ‘The Fatherless Son’

1:00pm-2:00pm                    LUNCH

2:00 pm- 3:30 pm                 Assessment and Intervention with ‘Positive Emotions’

Receptive Capacity

Self/Other Restructuring

Video Segment: ‘Amazing Grace’

3:30 pm-3:45 pm                  Break

3:45 pm- 6:00 pm                 Interactive Exercises

Case Presentation

Location : 58 South Molton Street, London W1K 5SL

Course cost : £120.00 (free for students of UK APT Core Training)

For more information or to register, please contact Ronete Cohen or phone 077 4766 8444.