Presentations
Presentations
Character Disorder and the Divorce Process Presentation: February 4, 2010 Los Angeles County Psychological Association Divorce and Mediation
Title: Affect Regulation and Clinical Practice Presentation: November 14, 2009 Newport Psychoanalytic Institute Continuing Education and Clinical Training Presentation Description of presentation: The adaptive regulation of ones emotions is an essential aspect of mental health. Conversely, deficits in affect regulation can grossly impair the quality of life and underlies a great deal of psychopathology. This workshop will examine contemporary affect regulation theories and describe how to utilize affect regulation models in clinical practice. The focus of the workshop will be on how to develop clinical interventions that facilitate change in individuals having deficits in affect regulation. Via the utilization of affect regulation models, therapists can gain an understanding of how the patient utilizes acting-out, interpersonal conflict, and dissociation to regulate intolerable emotions. Treatment is based on the development of appropriate exchanges of affect within the therapeutic relationship that lead to an increased tolerance and regulation of affect in the patient. To obtain complete audio of the presentation email: info@sietzevanderheide.com PDFs are available upon request
Title: Affect Regulation and the Process of Change in Therapy Article Abstract: Affect regulation plays an essential role in both human development and the clinical change process. Clinical exchanges involve verbal and nonverbal events in the course of a mutual exchange of affect. The therapist's attuned micro-analytic mirroring of patient affect helps the patient develop an expanded range of affect regulation. Via the exchange of affect within the intersubjective matrix the patient is able to access states of mind that are analogous to the infant state of alert inactivity and therapeutic hypnotic trance states. These states of mind have been compared to the subjective experience of curiosity. As such they indicate an emergence of the exploratory motivational system within which the patient can access innate biological self-righting mechanisms. The goal of this article is to add to the expanding knowledge base in the area of mutual affect regulation as it applies to clinical practice. Following an elucidation of pertinent theoretical considerations three clinical cases are presented. Two cases illustrate the use of verbal and nonverbal exchanges to evoke affect state changes. The third clinical example illustrates the use of nonverbal emotional exchange in working through a therapeutic impasse.
Title: The Transformative Power of Emotions Weekend Retreat Workshop At the Esalen Institute Big Sur Description: Emotions often shape how we experience our life. As we undergo shifts in our emotions there occur changes in our views of self and the world around us. These fluctuating emotional states of mind can be utilized to deepen our appreciation of ourselves and everything around us. This workshop will focus on using emotions as doorways to creativity, growth and well-being. It is becoming increasingly recognized that emotions play a powerful role in our growth and development. Recent findings indicate that there exists a vital emotional brain that transforms our experience of life. The transformative and developmental capacity of the emotional brain will be the focus of the workshop. The workshop is based on recent developments in neuropsychology and human development. Each individual's unique emotional rhythm will be explored and developed. Participants will acquire skills for shifting states of mind through shifts in emotions. The focus will be on learning how to utilize emotions for personal enrichment and to develop one's spiritual and psychological well-being. The workshop will explore each individual's relationship with their emotional world. This will be an exploration aimed at widening each person's range of emotions and altering emotional patterns.
Title: The Ericksonian Hypnotherapeutic Relationship and Affect Regulation Presentation: December 2001 Milton Erickson Institute Phoenix Arizona Abstract: The exchange of emotions in the clinical relationship is an essential aspect of the therapeutic process. Since affect is exchanged between the client and therapist at the conscious and unconscious level, Ericksonian techniques are well suited to facilitating the affective change process. This workshop will integrate contemporary models of affect regulation with Ericksonian hypnotherapy. The emphasis will be on applied techniques aimed at increasing the client's tolerance and capacity for utilization of affect. PDF of presentation available upon request
Title: Affect Regulation in the Treatment of Personality Disorders Training presentation for psychotherapists Abstract: The adaptive regulation of ones emotions may be an essential aspect of mental health. Conversely, the dysregulation of emotions is a significant component of psychopathology. Deficits in adaptive emotional regulation can grossly impair the quality of life. The global, enduring and maladaptive behavior which typifies the personality disordered individual are life- long manifestations of gross developmental failures in the development of adaptive affect regulatory mechanisms. The poly symptomatic clinical presentation of the personality disordered individual can be viewed as emerging from a chronic pattern of maladaptive affect regulation. This workshop will describe how to utilize contemporary affect regulation theories in the development of clinical interventions that facilitate change in individuals having self- disorders along the narcissistic and borderline continuum. Via the utilization of affect regulation models therapists can gain an understanding of how the patient utilizes acting-out, interpersonal conflict and dissociation in order to regulate intolerable emotions. Treatment is based on the development of appropriate exchanges of affect within the therapeutic relationship that lead to an increased tolerance and regulation of affect in the patient.
Title: Clinical Implications of Affect Theory Training presentation for psychotherapists Abstract: Contemporary research in human development and neuropsychology has lead to an increased understanding of the role affect plays in all aspects of human growth and change. Emotional exchanges between infant and caregiver shape neurological development and subsequent affect regulation, cognition and interpersonal relationships. The exchange of affect in psychotherapy has similarly wide ranging effects. This workshop will present an overview of contemporary theories of affect as applied to clinical treatment. PDF of presentation available upon request
Title: Affect Theory and Clinical Practice Article Presented May 2000 Annual Conference of the California Association of Marriage Family Therapists
Title: What the Therapist Feels Makes a Difference Article published May 2000 Therapist Magazine Introduction: Understanding emotions and the role they play in growth and change have been a focus of intensive research and clinical investigation throughout this century. Affect Theory is a name generally applied to contemporary models of emotion and includes research in clinical and developmental psychology as well as the cognitive and neurosciences. An understanding of this contemporary research can have a significant influence on how therapists view the role of emotional exchanges within the therapeutic relationship.
