Learning Objectives:
Essential Skills Module 1
- Participants will be able to describe how transformance, a central construct in AEDP psychotherapy, drives positive change
- Participants will be able to describe the AEDP 4-State Transformational Model and cite each of the 4 states.
- Participants will be able to describe the concept of ‘undoing aloneness’ and how it gets put into practice in the relational co-creation of safety.
- Participants will be able to state the vitality affects of transformative change which occurs during therapy.
- Participants will be able to role-play “meta-therapeutic” processing from a client’s perspective.
- Participants will be able to demonstrate moment-to-moment tracking.
Essential Skills Module 2
- Participants will be able to describe how attachment history informs emotional experience and sense of self.
- Participants will be able to apply the Self-Other-Emotion Triangle, as a framework for guiding relational interventions.
- Participants will be able to target their relational interventions to correspond to where the client is on the Self-Other-Emotion Triangle.
- Participants will role-play how to embody the AEDP stance of explicit care and compassion for the client.
- Participants will be able to name and identify receptive affective experiences and the blocks, i.e., defenses against them.
- Participants will be able to tailor interventions to attachment styles.
Essential Skills Module 3
- Participants will be able to describe the AEDP Triangle of Experience.
- Participants will be able to describe and name different types of defenses.
- Participants will be able to describe Cost/benefit analysis of defenses and their consequences.
- Participants will be able to apply interventions to soften and bypass defenses.
- Participants will be able to describe AEDP Self-at-Best versions of the triangle.
- Participants will be able to name multiple AEDP interventions to reduce anxiety.
- Participants will be able to role-play intervention strategies for reducing defenses and anxiety.
Essential Skills Module 4
- Participants will be able to name the different kinds of core affective experiences and different kind of experiential processing that can be used to work with them.
- Participants will be able to utilize moment-to-moment tracking, a foundational AEDP skill, to assess the client’s experience State 2 therapeutic interventions, and their effectiveness.
- Participants will be able to describe and process a core affective experience to completion, or to a corrective emotional experience.
- Participants will be able to define the technique of “portrayal” and describe its clinical uses in facilitating the processing of affective experiences to completion.
- Participants will be able to name 3 different types of portrayals used to process core affective experience.
Essential Skills Module 5
- Participants will be able to apply the 4 state map of AEDP as a framework for processing the full range of affects
- Participants will be able to track the process of affective experience across the 4 State map of AEDP.
- Participants will be able to target their interventions to correspond to where the client is on the 4 State map of AEDP.
- Participants will be able to list 6 transformational affects in AEDP that lead to transformative change to maximize patient’s healing.
- Participants will be able to utilize Metaprocessing, ie. the process of reflecting on positive therapeutic experiences, as a primary focus of facilitating and integrating emergent, adaptive therapeutic changes.
- Participants will be able to demonstrate how to help a client develop a new working model of secure attachment and relational capacity.
- Participants will be able to demonstrate how a therapist’s mindful, authentic open-hearted embrace of a patient’s gratitude facilitates transformance.
- Participants will be able to describe how to facilitate state transformations.
- Participants will be able to describe how transformance is the overarching motivational force driving positive change.
- Participants will be able to utilized moment-to-moment tracking to assess the client’s experience of the effectiveness of AEDP therapeutic interventions.
- Participants will role-play how to promote client’s safety, how to use tracking, how to regulate anxiety, how to metaprocess, and how to apply state specific interventions.
- Participants will role-play how to assess markers of transformation in the client, how to express affirmation, how to bypass defenses, and how to embody the AEDP stance of explicit care and compassion for the client.