Overview

The APS hosts this on-demand activity with the APS College of Clinical Psychologists.

Although most clinicians exhibit strong evidence-based clinical skills, they experience difficulty in knowing what to do when these interventions are not achieving the desired results. Their difficulties lie more in the process rather than the content of therapy, that is what skill to apply at a particular moment in therapy and with which particular client, to achieve optimum results.

This webinar will focus on process-based interventions and moment-to-moment tracking of a client’s responses to assess receptivity and effectiveness to a given intervention. It will include excerpts of the presenter’s own work to reinforce learning, the principles and techniques taught during the webinar are transtheoretical (easily adapted or modified to suit any therapeutic modality) and can be applied immediately.

The webinar is based on AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy)'s (Fosha) 4-state model of change:

• State 1: Defence/anxiety/distress (defences and defensiveness; dysregulation; anxiety, shame; closed to learning state),
• State 2: Core affective experiences/core feelings, categorical emotions: joy, love, happiness, anger, sadness, fear, excitement, disgust, relational affects (feeling "in sync" with the other), receptive effective experiences (open to learning new experiences),
• State 3: Transformational experiences/experience of change mastery affects of "I did it" and "I can do it" (pride and joy) mourning the self; receptivity to feeling seen, recognized, helped, accomplished, realization affects; healing effects of gratitude, tenderness; tremulous affects associated with change for the better, and
• State 4: Core state: truth statements and a coherent narrative flow, vitality, ease, well-being, openness; closeness and intimacy; relaxation; self-empathy and empathy for others, wisdom, clarity of truth, generosity.

Level of Learning

Foundational. This activity is targeted to those new to the topic.

Duration of access

This webinar will be recorded. Access to the recording and presenter slides is for 12 months from the date of confirmed registration.

APS CPD-Approved

This activity has been assessed against the APS Standards for CPD activities and approved for its education quality. Learn more about the APS CPD Approval process.

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Activity details 

• On-demand webinar recording 

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this on-demand activity, participants should be able to:

• describe  AEDP's 4-state model of change (labeled "transformance") , and

• recognise the required interventions for each state of the AEDP 4-state model of change.

Presenter(s)

Jamie Barnier

About the presenter(s)

Dr Jamie Barnier is a clinical psychologist and supervisor with over 10 years of experience in public, private and NGO settings. He has held senior level positions in acute psychiatric in patient wards, psychiatric triage, early psychosis, acute medical wards, child and youth mental health (specifically, children in out of home care) and palliative care. Jamie has also been a board-certified supervisor since 2014 and has supervised a range of mental health professionals including provisional, registered and clinical psychologists, psychiatric registrars, social workers, occupational therapists and mental health nurses. For the past 8 years, Jamie’s practice has focused on Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) and related therapies. Jamie is passionate about effective clinical practice and routinely video records all of his sessions (where consent has been obtained) for self reflective practice and supervision