Instructors: Angelo Ciliberti, LPC, LAC, CPG & Jordan Price, LCSW, CGP

This workshop will explore the developmental arc of early psychological life as understood by affect regulation theory and several complementary psychoanalytic theories. Emphasis will be placed on keeping an open clinical body and mind while using physiological, emotional, sensory, and cognitive information to assess the development state and maturational needs of the client in both individual & group therapy settings. Methods & techniques for intervention at the stations of emotional developmental will be discussed and modeled with a demonstration group.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify primary psycho-developmental stations of early life as understood by affect regulation theory and varying complementary psychoanalytic theories.
2. Learn the maturational needs of these developmental periods and how psychotherapist & group leaders can use themselves and the group to address them.
3. Examine how a psychotherapist & group leaders can use their full range of experiences, including physiological, emotional, sensory, and cognitive to understand where a group and its members may be functioning developmentally at a given moment.
4. Identify and develop techniques for individual & group interventions at different developmental stations of early life.