Trainings
English Core Training in Affect Phobia Therapy January, 2012
Recognized by International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association
333 East 30th Street, #15 H/J New York, NY 10016
(2012 is full, accepting applications for 2013)
To register, please contact edt-uk.com
- The English Core Training in Affect Phobia Therapy is a theoretical and
clinical course, teaching the Affect Phobia model of Short-Term
Experiential Dynamic Therapy, applied to patients with varying degrees
of resistance and fragility. The proposed training program next year
will take place in central Oxford. Each block of training includes
theoretical and clinical instruction, including role-play, discussion,
and observing video taped therapy sessions, as well as supervision
within a small learning group of 8-10 participants. Kristin Osborn (who
has collaborated closely with Leigh McCullough, author of Treating
Affect Phobia and Changing Character, is currently the leading
international trainer in Affect Phobia Therapy) is the principal
teacher/supervisor. She will lead four of the weekend workshops.
Ferruccio Osimo (founding president of IEDTA, and author of Experiential
Short-Term Dynamic Therapy: a Manual) will lead one of the weekend
workshops. In addition there will be one optional weekend supervision
workshop led by UK clinicians who are graduates of the EDT-UK Core
Training. The course will comply with the IEDTA requirements for
advanced training, and emphasizes experiential, hands-on learning. Each
block of training normally includes theoretical and clinical instruction
that includes role-playing, discussion, and observing video taped
therapy session, as well as, supervision by Kristin Osborn. The training
will emphasize the value of research in EDT and trainees will be
required to learn how to code the Achievement of Therapy Objectives
Scale (ATOS) and the ATOS Therapist scale in their own work and that of
master therapists. Useful sources of further information about Affect
Phobia Therapy and Experiential Dynamic Therapy, its evidence base and
Core Training, are the Affect Phobia website www.affectphobia.org, the
IEDTA website www.iedta.net and the EDT-UK website www.edt-uk.com. - COURSE FORMAT AND PROGRAM
The course is taught over four two day weekends and two three day weekends (i.e. including the Friday as well
as the Saturday) between January and November. Dates for the course
starting in January 2012 have yet to be confirmed. Completion of the
core training, in order to register with IEDTA and to receive an Affect
Phobia Therapy training certificate, takes three years, although it is
not necessary to commit to the full three years of the training. - FEES and PAYMENT
Core training is expected to be approximately £2000 payable in four
installments across the year. - OBJECTIVES OF THE TRAINING PROGRAM
Students will learn how to identify Affect Pobias (i.e. psycho dynamic conflicts), how to use
Malan’s triangle of conflict and triangle of person, how to
differentiate between adaptive and maladaptive feelings, how to create a
core conflict formulation in collaboration with the patient, and how to
regulate anxiety and confront defenses. As these objectives are mastered
more advanced elements of the model will be introduced (Further details
of the learning objectives are provided in the ‘therapist developmental
guidelines’ at the end of this document). Research is an integral part
of this program and students are trained to use the Achievement of
Therapeutic Objectives Scale (ATOS) in order to code their own therapy
sessions and master therapist sessions. Students are required to
videotape and present their own work for supervision. - ENTRY REQUIREMENTS and APPLICATION
Motivation for working with an Experiential-Dynamic approach and video recording psychotherapy sessions
are the basic requirements: to apply please enclose a CV and statement
of interest to contact@edt-uk.com - Kristin Osborn is an Experiential Dynamic Therapist who specializes in
Leigh McCullough’s Affect Phobia Therapy. For over 15 years, she has
used affect focused therapy in her work with adults, adolescents,
families and groups. In addition to seeing patients in her private
practice in Cambridge MA, Kristin Osborn conducts training and
supervision groups for mental health professionals in the North America
and Europe. She has a faculty appointment at Harvard Medical School at
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where she teaches 4th year
psychiatry residents Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy and is a member of
the Psychotherapy Research Program, directed by Dr. Leigh McCullough,
Ph.D. She is also a member of the continuing education faculty at
Rino-Nord Holland in Amsterdam and at Massachusetts School of
Professional Psychology in Roxbury, MA and has presented at the APA and
IEDTA International Conferences. Recently she was elected to the Board
of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association
(IEDTA) and is the IEDTA Executive Coordinator of Continuing Education.
She wrote a chapter for Clinical Strategies to Become a Master
Psychotherapist (2005) and an article being published in the
Psychotherapy Journal this summer, Learning how to rate video-recorded
therapy sessions: “A Practical Guide for Trainees and Advanced
Clinicians and is currently co-authoring two books. In 2011, she’ll be
offering trainings in Ireland, England, Spain, and Holland. You can
learn more about Kristin Osborn at www.kristinosborn.com and
www.affectphobia.org. - Ferruccio Osimo, is a leading clinician in the field of Brief
Psychotherapy and EDT. In his model the focus is the patient’s whole
person, not his/her pathology. The therapeutic relationship is valued as
a real human interchange and a matrix enhancing the healing power of
technical interventions. Dr.Osimo is a former President of IEDTA, and
teaches at Milan University. He founded the Italian Core Training and
the English Core Training (2006). He was trained in psychotherapy at the
Tavistock Clinic, where his main source of teaching and inspiration has
been D.H. Malan. With him Dr. Osimo co-authored Psycho dynamics,
Training, and Outcome in Brief Psychotherapy (Butterworth-Heinemann,
1992, then Arnold). Subsequently Dr. Osimo took part in a 3-year Core
Training with H. Davanloo, and in the Short-Term Psychotherapy Research
Program run by L. McCullough at Harvard Medical School. He has published
several research and clinical works, including Brief Psycho dynamic
Therapy, a chapter from the Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy (Vol
I, Wiley, 2002), and Experiential Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, a
Manual (Authorhouse, 2003). Dr. Osimo’s work has been presented in
Europe, North American and South America as well as in Italy.
NASW MA SymposiumMarch 29-30 2012
to sign up, go to www.naswma.org
Two Day Workshop at SAPU in Stockholm, Sweden
May 10-12, 2012
Please contact Birgitta Elmquist at SAPU for more information.
NASW MA Symposium 2012
Sheraton Framingham Hotel and Executive Conference Center
Framingham, MA.
to sign up, go to www.naswma.org
