9/22/16 UPDATE: Limited tickets for this program are still available and you may register at the event. Please arrive as close to 8:30AM as possible to allow time to register. You will need to bring your own lunch if you did not already pre-order a lunch.
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The case:
“I've always felt that a crisis was necessary to shake off a dead, wasteful, debilitating relationship with my parents,” Kurt said. And he was having a crisis. Thirty-one years old, the ruins of so many failed relationships strewn about him, his life and ambitions adrift, Kurt was drowning in an existential morass. Kurt had no idea what ailed him, nor how to rescue himself.
The Therapy:
Kurt’s treatment will be presented through audio excerpts from recorded sessions, used with permission. During the course of this treatment a frozen father-son relationship transformed in the unexpected and dramatic recognition of the father’s trauma and its effects upon his son.
The Workshop:
It has been well-established that a sense of personal agency is essential to the maintenance of self-esteem, to a feeling of vitality, and to maintaining meaningful relationships and work. It is also well known that a sense of agency can be disrupted in disturbed familial relationships and in trauma and abuse, including the intergenerational transmission of trauma. In this workshop we will examine how agency is developed in moment to moment interactions; the impact of trauma and abuse in stifling agency; and the way frozen pathways to agency may be unlocked in psychotherapy. The workshop will include discussion of what must occur in therapy to heal these devastating blows and the challenge to therapists in negotiating their own and their patients’ agency in treatment. The workshop will include in vivo demonstrations and case material from recorded sessions.
Learning Objectives:
1. List ways that clinicians can identify difficulties with personal agency in their patients’ presenting symptoms.
2. Describe the ways in which the capacity for a sense of agency may be undermined by developmentally based relational difficulties and in trauma and abuse.
3. List signs that indicate that unacknowledged trauma may be deeply affecting the lives, work, and relational functioning of patients.
4. Describe ways in which disruptions and impasses in treatment may be opportunities for the rebuilding of a sense of agency.
5. Identify the specific mechanisms by which trauma is constructed and transmitted intergenerationally and how these may be addressed in treatment.
6. Identify the ways in which issues of agency manifest themselves in the treatment process and in clinical supervision.
About our Presenters:
Jonathan H. Slavin, Ph.D., ABPP, is Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Clinical Professor, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, New York University; Founding Director, Tufts University Counseling Center (1970–2006); Former President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association; and Founding President, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Slavin's published work has focused on fundamental experiential elements in the therapy relationship including love, sexuality, desire, truthfulness, and personal agency, and their role in the repair of the mind.
Miki Rahmani, M.A., is Chief Psychologist, South Jerusalem Mental Health Center, and Faculty Emerita, School of Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. In more than 35 years of clinical teaching and consulting she has taught annual courses, seminars, and workshops on the supervisory relationship, the supervisory process in clinical work and in education, and on the treatment process.
Jonathan Slavin and Miki Rahmani have taught seminars and workshops on Relational Perspectives in Psychotherapy, Sexuality in Development and Treatment, and on Clinical Supervision in the United States, Israel, Russia, Romania, Armenia, Turkey, China, and Italy.
SCHEDULE:
8:30-9:00 AM Registration and Discussion of Interest in Forming a Local Association
9:00-9:30 AM Introduction of workshop leaders, participants, and the aims of the workshop
9:30-12:30 PM
a. Videos and discussion.
b. The concept of agency; Agency in human experience - examples from treatment and everyday life.
c. Case presentation with recorded material and discussion - The Resurrection of Agency from the Ashes of War.
12:30-1:30 PM Lunch with presenters (Lunch options to be determined.)
1:30-4:30 PM
a. Live Supervision-In vivo supervision and discussion with group – Demonstration of an actual, unrehearsed supervision session and discussion.
b. Agency as a critical concept in pathology and treatment.
CE Hours: 6.0 CE Credits*
IMPORTANT NOTE: In order to receive the CE credits offered for this program, all attendees must be present in the workshop no later than 9:15 am and must not leave prior to 4:15 pm.
This intermediate level program is intended for psychologists, counselors, social workers, graduate students and other mental health professionals. For more information, contact Dr. Edward Lundeen: Phone 610-820-8499 | Email [email protected]
*The Lehigh Valley Psychological and Counseling Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Lehigh Valley Psychological and Counseling Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
