I want to congratulate Sibel Halfon on her wonderful webinar this morning titled, "Operationalizing Children's Affect Regulation Strategies in Play in Psychodynamic Play Therapy."
In case you missed it, you will also find a podcast of her webinar at the following link:
https://vimeo.com/psychotherapyresearch
Thanks to all who supported this, our first CAFTR-sponsored webinar!
Geoff
CAFTR Chair
Geoff Goodman, Ph.D., ABPP, FIPA, CST, CSAT-S, CMAT-S, RPT-S
Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program
Long Island University
720 Northern Blvd.
Brookville, NY 11548
(516) 299-4277
http://www.drgeoffgoodman.com
http://www.rurallibrariesresearchnetwork.net
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From: Geoffrey Goodman
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2019 11:05 PM
To: caftr@psychotherapyresearch.org
Subject: First CAFTR webinar
Greetings!
This is a friendly reminder that CAFTR will be hosting its first SPR webinar on Wednesday, February 6, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. EST (New York time). I am delighted to introduce Sibel Halfon, Ph.D., from Istanbul Bilgi University as the webinar presenter. Sibel is a member of the CAFTR Steering Committee and has published a series of important research articles on play, affect regulation, and the impact of play therapy on child psychotherapy outcomes. I hope that as many of you as possible can attend on the SPR website (www.psychotherapyresearch.org). Details about the webinar are below. You will also find a podcast of her webinar at the following link:
https://vimeo.com/psychotherapyresearch
Students are especially invited to tune in and ask questions. Here is a question: under what circumstances might we consider affect regulation a process variable, to be measured repeatedly over the course of a treatment, and under what circumstances might we consider it an outcome variable, to be measured at the conclusion of a treatment? Any other questions for Sibel?
Title: "Operationalizing Children's Affect Regulation Strategies in Play in Psychodynamic Play Therapy"
Outline:
1) Introducing my research program at the clinic
2) Talking about how we went about codifying children's play behaviors in therapy using videos and transcripts
3) Introducing the affect dimensions of Chilren's Play Therapy Instrument (CPTI) (as a follow up to illustrate how to reliably codify play behaviors)
4) Talking about how we measure affect regulation in play using the CPTI
5) Perhaps showing a video and doing a practice coding
Abstract:
Children with clinical diagnoses often have problems with symbolic play organization, specifically with regulation of negative affect and its representation. One of the aims of psychodynamic therapy is enhancing children’s affect regulatory capacities in play. However, detailed and standardized play protocols that can empirically assess children’s play characteristics in psychodynamic therapy are not widely available. The aim of this webinar is to introduce the affective profile of the Children’s Play Therapy Instrument (CPTI; Kernberg, Chazan & Normandin, 1998) through which it is possible to empirically assess children’s affect regulation strategies in play, as well as track their development over the course of treatment. In order to maximize the understanding of the utility of this coding, the affective items of the CPTI will be introduced and the specific steps to generate an affect regulation score will be explained. These will be followed by an example showing how to code the affective characteristics of a child in psychodynamic play therapy from Istanbul Bilgi University Psychotherapy Research Center. Finally, the different ways in which the affect regulation index can be used in psychodynamic child psychotherapy research, with particular reference to mentalization processes, will be discussed.
Thanks for your interest!
Geoff
Geoff Goodman, Ph.D., ABPP, FIPA, CST, CSAT-S, CMAT-S, RPT-S
Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program
Long Island University
720 Northern Blvd.
Brookville, NY 11548
(516) 299-4277
http://www.drgeoffgoodman.com
http://www.rurallibrariesresearchnetwork.net
