SUPERVISION ESSENTIALS FOR accelerated experiential dynamic Pyschotherapy
Utilizing insights from attachment theory and research in neuroplasticity, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) clinicians help clients unearth, explore and process core feelings in order to transform anxiety and defensiveness into long-lasting, positive change. In this book, AEDP founders and leaders Natasha C.N. Prenn and Diana Fosha offer a model of clinical supervision that is based on the AEDP approach. Using close observation of videotaped sessions, AEDP supervisors model a strong focus on here-and-now interactions, with a full awareness of affective resonance, empathy, and dyadic affect regulation phenomena. The goal is to offer trainees a visceral, transformative experience that complements their growing intellectual understanding of how change occurs in AEDP.
by Natasha Prenn and Diana Fosha
I SECOND THAT EMOTION! ON SELF-DISCLOSURE AND ITS METAPROCESSING
"Not responding does not feel good to patients or to therapists. Silence? How could that possibly be right? How could that help?"
The Psychotherapist Revealed (Routledge 2009).
MIND THE GAP: AEDP INTERVENTIONS TRANSLATING ATTACHMENT THEORY INTO CLINICAL PRACTICE
This article explores three aspects of clinical practice that foster secure attachment bonds, and addresses what kind of therapist an attachment therapist is. It outlines the importance of nonverbal communication; and it starts to catalogue, what Prenn calls, experiential language: specific words and interventions that are evocative of experience and emotion. Finally it asserts that self-disclosure is an essential attachment-creating intervention, and explains the importance of metaprocessing and Metatherapeutic processing to titrate therapeutic interactions moment-to-moment in session and to promote metacognitional thinking as well.