Learning Objectives: Immersion

  • Explain AEDP’s healing oriented transformational theory of transforming emotional suffering into flourishing and distinguish it from traditional models of therapy. (Fosha, 2021a, 2021 c)
  • Discuss how AEDP metapsychology draws from research on neuroplasticity, and studies of positive emotion. (Fredrickson & Joiner, 2018; Hanson, 2017; Notsu et al., 2022; Shiota et al. 2017)
  • Define the AEDP term, “transformance,” and contrast it with the concept of psychological “resistance”. (Fosha, 2021a; Russell, 2021)
  • Describe what distinguishes the first session in AEDP and identify three elements of “healing from the get-go”. (DiCorcia et al, 2022; Iwakabe, Edlin & Thoma, 2022); Kranz, 2021)
  • Describe how the descriptive phenomenology of the four-state transformational process informs the moment-to-moment tracking that guides therapist interventions in AEDP. (Fosha, 2018)
  • Name the main features of the four states of AEDP’s 4-state transformational process. (Fosha, 2017)
  • Define moment-to-moment tracking as it applies to AEDP relational and experiential work (Hanakawa, 2021)
  • List 3 aspects of AEDP’s therapeutic stance aimed at building safety and trust between patient and therapist. (Lipton, 2021)
  • List 3 aspects of AEDP’s therapeutic stance aimed at building safety and trust between patient and therapist where there are differences of power, race, culture, gender, and/or privilege between patient and therapist. (Davis et al. 2018; Medley, 2018; Simpson, 2016)
  • Identify 3 aspects of AEDP’s therapeutic stance aimed at developing the therapist’s cultural competence. (Vigoda Gonzales, 2018a, 2018b)
  • Summarize key aspects of AEDP theory and the four-state map that guides AEDP’s transformational process. (DiCorcia et al., 2022; Fosha, 2017a)
  • List two AEDP interventions used to assist patients in tracking affective experience in their body. (Hanakawa, 2021)
  • Name the three main categories of experience represented by the Triangle of Experience. (Pando-Mars, 2021)
  • Contrast the concepts of “core affect”, “inhibitory affect and “defensive affect”. (Pando-Mars, 2021; Welling & Ofer, 2022) 
  • Describe how to map out aspects of experience linked to racialized trauma (emotions, internalized inferiority/superiority, perception of other groups) using the Triangle of Social Experience.  (Medley, 2021, in preparation)
  • List 3 ways to restructure defenses. (Frederick, 2021; Pando-Mars, 2021)
  • List three AEDP interventions relevant to addressing defensive responses to feeling & connecting. (Frederick, 2021; Pando-Mars, 2021)
  • Define the term “receptive affective experience” in AEDP relational work. (Fosha, 2017b; Frederick, 2021)
  • Give 3 examples of “receptive affective experiences in AEDP relational work. (Fosha, 2017b)
  • Name three AEDP interventions used to regulate anxiety and overwhelming affect. (Lamagna, 2021)
  • Discuss therapeutic tasks and interventions to help patients tolerate, experience, and express emotional experience. (Ulvenes et al., 2014)
  • Name three interventions that promote experiential processing of State 2 core affective experiences to the point of completion. (Lamagna, 2021; Medley, 2021)
  • Define the experiential technique of portrayal and discuss how to guide patient to a direct encounter w/imagined other in language & action, setting the scene and deepening their contact with salient emotional experience. (Medley, 2021; Welling & Ofer, 2022)
  • Describe the AEDP intervention of meta-therapeutic processing. (Fosha & Thoma, 2020) 
  • Explain the difference between AEDP State 2. (Processing of Emotional Experience) and AEDP State 3 (Meta-processing of Transformational Experience) (Fosha, 2021b; Pascual Leone & Kramer, 2019)
  • Utilize meta-therapeutic processing in clinical work to expand and consolidate in-session moments of therapeutic change.
  • Name three transformational affects. (Fosha & Thoma, 2020; Yeung, 2021)
  • Provide 3 examples of meta-processing questions inviting reflection on positive changes in thinking, feeling, somatic experience, or relational connection. 
  • Define the AEDP concept of an “Upward spiral” of vitality and energy and name the states most associated with this intervention. (Fredrickson & Joiner, 2018; Yeung 2021)
  • List six, phenomenologically distinct positive affective states (i.e., transformational affects) of AEDP State 3. (Fosha, 2021a)
  • Describe 3 characteristics of the integration that we witness in State 4. i.e., core state. (Yeung, 2021)