Programs & Continuing Education
Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey
Co-Sponsor: New Jersey Society of Clinical Social Workers
Dan Hill, PhD:
The Integration of Attachment Theory and
Neurobiology: Clinical Applications
Sunday, February 26, 2012,
9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Affect regulation is an emerging paradigm based in integrations of psychoanalysis, evolutionary biology, affective neurobiology, infant studies, and attachment studies. The primary integrationists are Allan Schore, Daniel Siegel and Peter Fonagy. The workshop will consist of two parts: In the first Dr. Hill will be presenting the basic components of the clinical model of affect regulation: the broad strokes of the model's theory of bodymind, theory of development, theory of pathogenesis, and theory of therapeutic action. He will pay special attention to clinical aspects of the model including the emphasis on dissociation, and giving relational trauma center stage in the understanding of developmental psychopathology. Finally, he will discuss how the integration of attachment theory and neurobiology has led to a deepening of attachment theory and the understanding of the capacity to regulate affect. In the second part Dr. Hill will focus on clinical vignettes that illustrate many of the theoretical concepts discussed in the first half of the workshop. Attendees will learn interpersonal neurobiology’s developmental theory of bodymind, how attachment theory and affective neurobiology are integrated into a modern attachment theory, a relational trauma-based understanding of disorders of affect regulation, and therapeutic actions and techniques for treating disorders of affect regulation.
 | Dan Hill, PhD is a psychoanalyst, educator, and a leading proponent of the paradigm shift to affect regulation. His publications and presentations range from the clinical use of multiple models through religious fundamentalism understood through the lens of affect regulation. For the past six years he has conducted yearly conferences and on-going study groups focused on an in-depth understanding of the regulation of affect as understood in Allan Schore's Regulation Theory and Peter Fonagy's theory of mentalization. He is on the faculties of the National Institute of the Psychotherapies and the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. |
Location: The Institute for Women’s Leadership, Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
162 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8555
Cost: Faculty, Associates, and Others: $65 at the door/$50 pre-registration by February 10;
Candidates: $45/$35 pre-registration by February 10;
Students with ID: $15
Send check payable to: CPPNJ, 235 Main Street, #184, Madison, NJ, 07940
3 CEUs for Social Workers are offered
For further information, please call 973-912-4432
This program is co-sponsored by the New Jersey Society for Clinical Social Work, which provides leadership and support to clinical social workers in all practice settings. The New Jersey Society for Clinical Social Work has given voice to clinical social workers dealing with the health care industry. The organization provides outstanding continuing education programs and opportunities for collegial contact. www.njscsw.org
Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey
Co-Sponsor: New Jersey Society of Clinical Social Workers
Susan Johnson, PhD:
Attachment and Sexuality:
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy in Action
Sunday, June 24, 2012,
9:00 a.m.- 9:30 a.m. Registration/Continental breakfast
9:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Program
We are born to bond and sexuality is intertwined in our bonding relationships. This workshop will outline EFT, an empirically validated model of couple intervention that focuses on the creation of a secure attachment bond. The evidence is that secure attachment enhances the other two key aspects of love relationships, caregiving and sexuality. This workshop will outline EFT as an attachment intervention. It will then consider how sexuality fits into this perspective and how sexual issues are dealt with in EFT sessions. The day will consist of didactic presentation, discussion, exercises and the viewing of EFT training tapes. Attendees will learn:
1) To understand close relationships from an attachment perspective; 2) To understand EFT as a model of intervention; 3)To link sexuality and attachment, bonding and eroticism; and 4) To describe the way sexual issues are addressed in an experiential attachment oriented therapy.
 | Sue Johnson is Director of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy and Distinguished Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California as well as Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She has received numerous honors for her work, including the Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Couple and Family Therapy Award from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the Research in Family Therapy Award from the American Family Therapy Academy. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Dr Johnson’s best known professional books include, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (2004) and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors (2002). She trains counselors in EFT worldwide and consults to Veterans Affairs, the US and Canadian military and New York City Fire Department. |
Location: Lenfell Hall, The Mansion, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
Cost: Faculty, Associates, and Others: $165 at the door/$150 pre-registration by June 10;
Candidates: $65/$55 pre-registration by June 10;
Students with ID: $40
Send check payable to: CPPNJ, 235 Main Street, #184, Madison, NJ, 07940
6 CEUs for Social Workers are offered
For further information, please call 973-912-4432
This program is co-sponsored by the New Jersey Society for Clinical Social Work, which provides leadership and support to clinical social workers in all practice settings. The New Jersey Society for Clinical Social Work has given voice to clinical social workers dealing with the health care industry. The organization provides outstanding continuing education programs and opportunities for collegial contact. www.njscsw.org
