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level - i
introductory workshop
introductory workshop
Level I Workshop - Introduction & Fundamentals
In this Level I course, participants receive in-depth skill training through a combination of brief lectures, video demonstrations, live modeling, case discussion and supervised role-playing practice. More specifically participants learn the following:
Level I. Certificate of Attendance. All workshops participants receive a Level I certificate of attendance.
In this Level I course, participants receive in-depth skill training through a combination of brief lectures, video demonstrations, live modeling, case discussion and supervised role-playing practice. More specifically participants learn the following:
- Overview of theoretical basis for Alliance-focused intervention
- Identifying in-session markers of different alliance ruptures
- Learn overarching interventional principles
- Learn specific interventions strategies
- Principles of interpersonal complementarity
- Basic introduction to emotion theory and its relevance to alliance –focused intervention
- Therapists’ emotion as a source of information
- Introduction to therapeutic metacommunication
- Stage process models of rupture resolution
- Basic introduction to principles of relationally oriented mindfulness practice
Level I. Certificate of Attendance. All workshops participants receive a Level I certificate of attendance.
Level - II
Intermediate workshop
Intermediate workshop
Level II- Intermediate Level Alliance-Focused Training Workshop
*Completion of Level I workshop is a prerequisite for enrolling in Level II workshop
This Level II workshop helps trainees to deepen their understanding of the theory of alliance-focused intervention and the principles & intervention strategies learned in the Level I workshop. Learning takes place through a combination of didactic presentation, group discussion, video demonstrations, live modeling, case discussion and supervised role-playing practice.
Participants learn the following:
Level II. Certificate of Attendance. All workshops participants receive a Level II certificate of attendance.
*Completion of Level I workshop is a prerequisite for enrolling in Level II workshop
This Level II workshop helps trainees to deepen their understanding of the theory of alliance-focused intervention and the principles & intervention strategies learned in the Level I workshop. Learning takes place through a combination of didactic presentation, group discussion, video demonstrations, live modeling, case discussion and supervised role-playing practice.
Participants learn the following:
- Second level principles of alliance-focused intervention
- Further applications of relationally-oriented mindfulness work
- Tracking moment by moment change
- Reflection-in-action skills
- Further applications of emotion theory & research for alliance-focused intervention
- Principles of therapist self and interactive affect regulation
- Application of mindfulness training as a tool for therapist affect-regulation
- Helping patients to develop affect regulation skills through implicit relational processes
- Level II principles of cultivating therapists’ internal experience as an instrument of therapeutic change
Level II. Certificate of Attendance. All workshops participants receive a Level II certificate of attendance.
Level - III
Supervised Practice
Supervised Practice
Level III- Supervised Practice in the use of Alliance-Focused Training Principles & Interventions
*Completion of Level II workshop is a prerequisite for enrolling in Level III supervision
Level III consists of weekly group supervision meetings conducted via video-conferencing. Supervision groups of up to four trainees meet weekly for 8 months. Trainees videotape or audiotape sessions with their patients and upload them digitally so that supervision sessions can focus on moment-by-moment processes during ruptures and impasses. At the end of the training period, trainees can digitally upload samples of alliance rupture or impasse events from their work with their own patients, and these segments will be assessed for 1) adherence, and 2) therapist skillfulness and competency. Competency is rated independent of whether or not therapists are able to successfully work through the relevant impasses. Trainees who are evaluated as achieving adequate standards of adherence, skillfulness and competency receive formal certification in Alliance-Focused Training.
*Completion of Level II workshop is a prerequisite for enrolling in Level III supervision
Level III consists of weekly group supervision meetings conducted via video-conferencing. Supervision groups of up to four trainees meet weekly for 8 months. Trainees videotape or audiotape sessions with their patients and upload them digitally so that supervision sessions can focus on moment-by-moment processes during ruptures and impasses. At the end of the training period, trainees can digitally upload samples of alliance rupture or impasse events from their work with their own patients, and these segments will be assessed for 1) adherence, and 2) therapist skillfulness and competency. Competency is rated independent of whether or not therapists are able to successfully work through the relevant impasses. Trainees who are evaluated as achieving adequate standards of adherence, skillfulness and competency receive formal certification in Alliance-Focused Training.
Level - IV
Supervisor Training
Supervisor Training
Level IV- Alliance-Focused Supervisor Training Workshop
*Completion of Levels I, II & III are prerequisite for enrolling in Level IV Supervisor Training
This workshop introduces supervisors and trainers to the basic principles of Alliance-Focused Training. Participants receive didactic instruction in the basic principles of training therapists in the use of alliance- focused intervention, view and discuss videotapes of the training process, and practice training and supervision skills.
The emphasis is on the use of videotape based supervision, experientially based training techniques and the use of “awareness-oriented” role-plays. Supervisors learn how to train therapists in the skillful use of alliance-focused interventions, and participate in supervision role-playing exercises that focus on helping therapists learn the skills of attending to what is emerging on a moment-by-moment basis at three levels: 1) the patient’s experience, 2) their own emerging experience in the therapeutic relationship, and 3) the therapeutic relationship. Particular focus is be placed on training therapists to maintain a meta-perspective on new cycles of alliance ruptures and patient-therapist relational configurations that emerge in response to initial attempts to negotiate ruptures or therapeutic impasses. Supervisors also learn how to evaluate therapist skill level using alliance-focused adherence and competency measures.
*Completion of Levels I, II & III are prerequisite for enrolling in Level IV Supervisor Training
This workshop introduces supervisors and trainers to the basic principles of Alliance-Focused Training. Participants receive didactic instruction in the basic principles of training therapists in the use of alliance- focused intervention, view and discuss videotapes of the training process, and practice training and supervision skills.
The emphasis is on the use of videotape based supervision, experientially based training techniques and the use of “awareness-oriented” role-plays. Supervisors learn how to train therapists in the skillful use of alliance-focused interventions, and participate in supervision role-playing exercises that focus on helping therapists learn the skills of attending to what is emerging on a moment-by-moment basis at three levels: 1) the patient’s experience, 2) their own emerging experience in the therapeutic relationship, and 3) the therapeutic relationship. Particular focus is be placed on training therapists to maintain a meta-perspective on new cycles of alliance ruptures and patient-therapist relational configurations that emerge in response to initial attempts to negotiate ruptures or therapeutic impasses. Supervisors also learn how to evaluate therapist skill level using alliance-focused adherence and competency measures.
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