Session 1 of 8:
12:00 – 12:30
I: Course Overview
12:30 – 1:00.
II: 16-session AEDP
a. Introduction
b. Key Stages
c. Key Therapist Tasks; Key Interventions
d. Change Processes
e. Time Factor as an Agent of Change
f. Importance of Metatherapeutic Processing as an intervention at all stages of 16-session AEDP
1:00 – 1:30.
III: Video Demonstration: Excerpts from Sessions of an entire time limited AEDP therapy
1:30 – 1:45
IV: Break
1:45 – 2:15
V: Video Demonstration Continued
2:15 – 2:45
VI: Small group discussions in breakout rooms – discussing the video case presentation of a time limited therapy
2:45 – 3:00
VII: Large group discussion: Q & A, Reflections and closing the day
Session 2 of 8:
12:00 – 12:15
I. Review Session 1 and Overview of Session 2
12:15- 12:45
II. Overview of stages and therapist tasks in a 16-session protocol of AEDP
a. Beginning therapy
b. Sessions 2- 7
c. Sessions 8 & 9
d. Sessions 13-15
e. Final Session
12:45 – 1:30
III. The Roots of AEDP in the Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapies
a. The history of the Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapies
b. AEDP roots in the work of David Malan; and Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
1:30 – 1:45
Break
1:45 – 3:00
IV: Research on the effectiveness of 16-session AEDP
a. summary of research findings
b. selection and exclusion criteria for participating patients
in the AEDP research study
c. Current developments in the ongoing program of re search into the practice and change mechanisms of AEDP.
Session 3 of 8:
12:00 – 12:15 I: Review Session 2 and Overview of Session 3
12:15 – 1:15 II: 16 Session AEDP: The initial session
a. How to introduce the time limit at the outset
to enhance the effectiveness of the treatment
b. Goal Setting
c. Assessment
d. Key therapist tasks and processes in the first session
1:15 – 1:30 III: Break
1:30 – 2:15 IV: Video Demonstration: First Sessions of 16-session AEDP
2:15 – 2:40 V: Small group discussions in breakout rooms – discussing
the video case presentation.
2:40 – 3:00 VI: Large group discussion
Session 4 of 8:
12:00 – 12:15
I: Review Session 3 and Overview of Session 4
12:15 – 1:15
II: Didactic: Attachment work in 16-session AEDP
a. Defining receptive affective experiences and their
importance in attachment-based therapeutic work
b. Interventions to work with defenses against receptive affective experiences.
c. Common blocks and interventions to address those blocks
e. Leveraging the time limit to enhance attachment
work.
1:15 – 1:30
III: Break
1:30 – 2:15
IV: Video Demonstration: Working with defenses against receptive affective experience in 16-session AEDP
2:15 – 2:40
V: Small group discussions in breakout rooms – discussing the video case presentation
2:40 – 3:00
VI: Large group discussion: Reflections and closing the day
Session 5 of 8
12:00 – 12:15
I: Review Session 5 and Overview of Session 6
12:15 – 12:45
II: Working with Trauma and Complex Trauma in
16-session AEDP.
a. Potential challenges for when working with trauma and complex trauma
b. Interventions
12: 45 – 1:30
III: Video demonstration
1:30 – 1:45
IV: Break
1:45 – 2:45
V: Discussion and clinical illustrations showing short clips
of work with trauma and complex trauma in 16-session
AEDP.
Session 6 of 8
12:00 – 12:30
I: Review Session 6 and Overview of Session 7
12:30 – 1:15
II: Working on Termination
a. Clinical phenomena typical of sessions 13-15
b. Key Therapist tasks and interventions in sessions 13-15
c. Holding steady and maintaining the time frame
d. Termination
1:15 – 1:30
III: Break
1:30 – 2:30
IV: Clinical illustrations and Discussion
a. Resurgence of presenting symptoms as (attachment) protest
b. Strategies and Interventions
2:30 – 3:00
V: Large Group Discussion
Session 7 of 8
12:00 – 12:30 I: Review Session 6 and Overview of Session 7
12:30 – 1:15 II: Working on Termination
a. Clinical phenomena typical of sessions 13-15
b. Key Therapist tasks and interventions in
sessions 13-15
c. Holding steady and maintaining the time frame
d. Termination
1:15 – 1:30
III: Break
1:30 – 2:30
IV: Clinical illustrations and Discussion
a. Resurgence of presenting symptoms as
(attachment) protest
b. Strategies and Interventions
2:30 – 3:00 V: Large Group Discussion
Session 8 of 8
12:00 – 12:30
I: Review Session 7 and Overview of Session 8
12:30 – 1:30
II: Termination in 16-session AEDP
a. Key Therapist tasks and interventions in the final sessions
b. Together We Say Goodbye: Navigating therapy termination in a way that is congruent with AEDP
attachment-focused, emotion-focused, and transformational orientation
c. Undoing the patient’s aloneness with respect to the ending of treatment
d. Post-Therapy growth and the use of this concept in the final sessions of the therapy ending of the sessions
1:30:– 1:45
III: Break
1:45– 2:15
IV: Video Demonstration of Termination in 16-session AEDP
2:15 – 3:00
V: Large group discussion: Feelings about saying goodbye,
Discussion on the course.