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27th Annual Summer Seminars: Treating Attachment Pathology in Adult Patients

Daniel Brown, PhD, ABPH

July 25, 2016 – July 29, 2016 | North Falmouth, MA | Sea Crest Beach Hotel More Information

Whereas sophisticated assessment tools are available to identify attachment pathology in adults, less attention has been paid to the development of effective ways to treat insecure attachment pathology, primarily in personality and dissociative disorder patients. This seminar will review an approach to attachment-based treatment that utilizes three main interventions: 1. Positive re-mapping of internal working models (IWMs) of attachment using the ideal parent figure method; 2. Fostering a range of meta-cognitive skills designed to increase overall coherence of mind in patients with severe attachment pathology; and 3. Enhancing behavioral, nonverbal and verbal collaborative behavior within and outside of treatment. Additionally, this seminar will review very specific treatment methods for each of the three main prototypes of insecure attachment– dismissing attachment, anxious preoccupied attachment, and disorganized attachment. Teaching format includes lecture, live demonstration of treatment methods, and illustration of main treatment methods through audio and video recordings of actual treatment sessions.

This course is designed so that participants will be able to:
  • Discuss standardized assessment instruments for measuring attachment in children and adults;
  • Describe the research findings on how attachment status is associated with relational disturbances and psychopathology in children and adults;
  • Develop a critical overview of the main approaches
    to attachment treatment;
  • Explain the rational for attachment-based treatment using
    the three pillars approach;
  • Discuss the range of interventions associated with the
    Ideal Parent Figure Protocol;
  • Foster collaborative and nonverbal behavior;
  • Foster a range of metacognitive skills that lead to coherence of mind;
  • Apply techniques specific to each attachment prototype:
    dismissing attachment; anxious preoccupied attachment; and disorganized attachment;
  • Define the main ways to mark treatment outcome in
    attachment-based treatment.

Additional Information

Monday, July 25, 2016

8:30-9:00 AM

Registration

9:00-10:15 AM

Types of relational disturbance; research using the Strange Situation Paradigm; primary attachment prototypes and their stability overtime; adult attachment inventory classification and clinical manifestations.

10:15-10:30 AM

Continental Coffee Break

10:30-12:15 PM

Assessment of attachment in adolescents and adults; clinical features of dismissing, preoccupied, and disorganized attachment; attachment and psychopathology.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

9:00-10:15 AM

Summary of main treatment approaches; video case illustration of the Baker separate but together protocol; live demonstration of ideal parent figure protocol (IPF); clinical advantage of IPF protocol over secure base treatments; overview of the three pillars of treatment.

10:15-10:30 AM

Continental Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:15 PM

Five Primary functions of attachment introduced through the IPF protocol; goals of IPF treatment.

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

9:00-10:15 AM

Interventions for fostering nonverbal and verbal collaboration; Overview of four generations of metacognitive-based treatment; clinical illustration of developing main metacognitive skills; interdependence of three pillars of treatment.

10:15-10:30 AM

Continental Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:15 PM

Treating dismissing attachment: etiology; therapeutic stance; IPF imagery with dismissing attachment; fostering collaboration in dismissing attachment; fostering metacognition in dismissing attachment.

Thursday, July 28, 2016

9:00-10:15 AM

Audiotape case illustration of interventions for dismissing attachment in adults; Treating preoccupied attachment; etiology; therapeutic stance; IPF imagery with preoccupied attachment.

10:15-10:30 AM

Continental Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:15 PM

Fostering collaboration in preoccupied attachment; fostering metacognition in preoccupied attachment; audiotape case illustration of interventions for preoccupied attachment.

Friday, July 29, 2016

9:00-10:15 AM

Treating disorganized attachment; etiology; therapeutic stance; IPF imagery with disorganized attachment.

10:15-10:30 AM

Continental Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:15 PM

Fostering collaboration in disorganized attachment; fostering meta cognition in disorganized attachment; audiotape case illustration of interventions for disorganized attachment; cumulative effects of treatment; main indicators of treatment effectiveness.

12:15 PM

Adjourn

Beth Israel Deaconess Department of Psychiatry Foundation, Inc./Contact Hours: 15

Accreditation:

Physicians This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of pmiCME and The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. pmiCME is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CREDIT DESIGNATION:

Weeklong Seminar: pmiCME designates the live activity for a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Weekend Seminar: pmiCME designates the live activity for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada recognizes conferences and workshops held outside of Canada that are developed by a university, academy, hospital, specialty society or college as accredited group learning activities.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ claimed by physicians attending live events certified and organized in the United States for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ can be claimed through the agreement on mutual recognition of credits between UEMS and AMA, considered as being equal to the European Continuous Medical Education Credits(ECMEC©) granted by the UEMS. One AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ is equivalent to one (1) hour of European EACCME Credit (ECMEC©), therefore up to 15 ECMEC© Credits are available. Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Psychologists The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Counselors The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5689. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Social Workers For information on the status of the application to the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, please call 617-754-1265 or email: sjruiz@bidmc.harvard.edu.

This program meet the specifications for the Board of Registration in Nursing (244 CMR)

Daniel Brown, PhD, ABPH is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of 15 books including two on developmental psychopathology, Human Feeling and Transformation of Consciousness. He is currently working on a new book on treating patients with attachment pathology.