Healing Relational Trauma 2:
Therapist Metaskills to Guide Treatment with each Attachment Style

An AEDP Institute Sponsored, AEDP New England Live Seminar
with AEDP Senior Faculty Member Karen Pando-Mars, MFT

Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors, MFTs, MD’s, Nurses, Creative Arts Therapists, in mental health and the healing arts and sciences. This course is for Beginning/Intermediate levels.

Part 1 & part 2 of this seminar series are each designed to stand alone; they complement each other without duplicating material. This workshop, part 2, will focus on how therapists can better attune and resonate with patients, helping them to be seen and heard, aiming to set the conditions to establish a secure base in which our patient’s self-at-best can arise. Sometimes the patient’s attachment strategy can challenge the therapist’s capacity to be present, responsive, attuned and empathic. Clinicians often ask “Who is better suited to work with whom in terms of matching attachment styles?” I want to propose that it is not actually the patient’s attachment style itself that challenges therapists to feel inadequate or unable to empathize or triggers our self-at-worst attachment strategy. Rather, my reaction to the specific behavior that is manifesting in the moment is what drives me outside of my capacity to respond with the help that is needed. This workshop is about expanding the clinician’s capacity to respond moment-to-moment by deepening understanding about what is going on with whom and how to tailor the therapist’s stance with respect to patient’s distinctive attachment strategies.

This workshop will identify classic blind spots that get elicited by specific aspects of each attachment strategy. We will break down the configuration of each attachment style into its affect regulation strategies and defenses, caregiver hallmarks and the subsequent relational attitudes and patterning, and the seeds of resilience. Video of psychotherapy sessions will also be shown to illustrate the interplay of how these strategies can be further depicted on AEDP’s representational schemas and how we can intervene experientially to engage positive neuroplasticity. I will also describe the way therapists can use specific metaskills to address the impact of relational trauma that drive self-at-worst insecure attachment strategies. Metaskills is a term used by Amy Mindell (1995, 2002) to describe the background feeling attitudes and qualities therapists display that can be used in service of the patient’s therapy. AEDP’s interventions about making the implicit explicit and making the explicit relational can be helpful to apply with specificity to each attachment style. The aim of this workshop is to move towards establishing a base of connection through which our patient’s self-at-best can be engaged to gain traction and momentum for treatment.

By attending this workshop, participants will learn to:.

• How psychotherapists can draw upon attachment theory and intersubjective connection to set the conditions for building a secure base to bring patient’s self-at-best to the fore.
• The configuration of each attachment style and how the original caregiver relationship sets up self-at-best (secure) and self-at-worst (insecure) attachment strategies and what this implies for the therapist activities.
• AEDP’s representational schemas to organize therapist activities and interventions with each attachment style.
• Identify patient’s affect regulation strategies and how to intervene with patients who are over-regulated and patients who are under-regulated.
• Use distinct therapist metaskills to address the implicit patterning of different attachment strategies.
• How therapist self-disclosure and affirmation can be tailored according to each attachment style to help patients know that they matter in the specific way that they need to matter.
• Using AEDP’s experiential focus and interventions to stimulate neural circuitry and engage the potential of positive neuroplasticity to rewire the patient’s internal working model.

Agenda:

9:00–9:15        Introduction and Orientation to the day
9:15–10:30      Overview and theoretical underpinnings. The configuration of each   attachment style; therapist metaskills and blind spots with each style.
10:30–10:45    Break
10:45–12:30    Videotape and specific practices with audience participation
12:30–1:30      Lunch
1:30–3:00        Videotape and specific practices with audience participation
3:00–3:15        Break
3:15–4:30        Videotape with specific practices with audience participation
4:30–5:00        Small and large group discussion and wrap-up

Meet the Presenters

[content] [/loop]

Date, Time and Location

Date: Friday, March 6, 2020

Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm

Location:
The Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library
33 Marrett Rd
Lexington, MA 02421

Fees, Registration:

CE credits included in the seminar fee: 6.5

Fees:

• $140 Member Price (must be logged in to register)
• $145 Non-Member Early Bird (by February 6, 2020)
• $155 Non-Member Regular Price (starts February 7, 2020)

Special pricing:    

• Graduate Students in their last year of training as well as soon-to-be-licensed Interns & Trainees: A limited number of $50 Scholarship Seats are available. Candidates are encouraged to apply if they have financial needs such that they could not attend without the discount. For verification, please email copy of a current student ID or proof of Internship/Trainee Program to admin@aedpinstitute.org to begin the application process. If you do not meet the criteria you may qualify for a Diversity Scholarships (below).
• Diversity Scholarships: a limited number of $50 Diversity Scholarships are available
  • please email:  Matt Fried and Yuko Hanakawa, Co-Chairs, The Diversity Committee at aedp.dscholarship@gmail.com with the name of this seminar, applicant name and license type, license number, and name of agency/hospital if applicable.
  • Please note that the focus of the AEDP Diversity Initiative is to enable training for therapists coming from marginalized communities, who work with patients from those communities and intend to continue to do so, and who also evidence clear financial hardship.

SEMINAR QUESTIONS & REGISTRATION CONTACT

Contact Karen Newell at R. Cassidy Seminars: AEDP’s CE and Registration Partner:

karen@rcassidy.com
866-992-9399  X105
Office Hours:  Monday – Friday 8:00 am – 2:00 pm PST

ADA ACCOMODATIONS:

Please contact our office 866-992-9399 if you have questions about disability access or accommodations.

Continuing Education (CE)

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program

Disability Access – If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days Or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often And while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions Or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.

To see our Refund Policy or to file a Grievance, see link below:

https://www.aedpinstitute.org/about-aedp/aedp-institute-online-privacy-and-refund-policy/