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.
Workshop: How to integrate attachment, anxiety regulation and play when working with the difficult patient