- Identify the specific clinical markers of each of the 4 states in the AEDP Model of Emotion Processing
- Utilize the skill of moment-to-moment tracking to facilitate processing core affects to completion
- Demonstrate two techniques for deepening a client's access to adaptive core affects
- Distinguish adaptive from maladaptive core affects
- Define "portrayal" and identify different types of portrayals
- Demonstrate understanding of how to utilize portrayals in clinical work to process core affect
- The central place of pathogenic affects (e.g. feelings of worthlessness, shame, unbearable aloneness, etc.) in trauma.
- What therapeutic presence really means—being inside the patient’s world and our patients knowing it, feeling it, and viscerally registering it—and the integral part it plays in transforming pathogenic affects.
- What we really mean by "undoing aloneness", how to regulate fear and shame, champion the patient’s self-at-best, and experiential work with relational experience—all key ingredients in transforming trauma and the self.
- How to be more affectively engaged, relationally courageous (i.e. “fierce love”) and make more purposeful use of their own emotional experience in their work with clients.
- Identify three phobias associated with trauma work based on the Structural model of dissociation.
- Describe two AEDP-based therapeutic interventions that aid in the patient’s development of emotion regulation.
- Name two affective change processes in AEDP that can help stabilize patients in early trauma treatment.
- Define “Intra-relational AEDP” and identify two goals associated with its use.
- Explain how to reliably track patients’ position on the triangles and determine when the patient is functioning in the realm of feeling, defense or anxiety.
- Designate the different levels or subcategories of feeling, defense and anxiety.
- Demonstrate how to use knowledge about the patients position to guide therapeutic interventions.
- Explain concrete steps to restructure defenses and reduce barriers to connection in the therapy relationship.
- Establish ways to track and regulate anxiety so that it is in an optimal range.
- Demonstrate skills for accessing internal affective resources and unconscious material so they are available for therapeutic exploration.
- Differentiate between empathy and affirmation
- Explain the the importance of metatherapeutic processing
- Integrate affirmation into their technical repertoire of interventions