Adult Attachment Interview (DMM-AAI): Introduction for low-risk and mild clinical conditions

Instructor: Rebecca Carr-Hopkins MSc

Dates: 18 days by Zoom: March 27-April 1; June 12-June 17; Sept 11-16, 2023. In addition, there are weekly practice assignments between the scheduled sessions.

Time

• Sydney: 12am*-5am* (*the next day)
• China: 9pm-2am* (*the next day)
• CET: 2pm-7pm
• UK: 1pm-6pm
• EST: 8am – 1pm
• PST: 5am-10am

Location: on-line by Zoom

Content: this course teaches discourse analysis and classification for the AAI, for non-risk and (mild) out-patient clinical applications of the AAI, using the DMM method.

There are (a) weekly coding work between the sessions and (b) a requirement to submit 3 AAIs carried out by the course participant; this work must be completed to receive a Certificate for Administering the AAI.

Prerequisites:

1. Bachelor’s Degree or its academic equivalent; Master’s and doctoral degrees are recommended.
2. Attachment & Psychopathology before completing the AAI course (i.e., ANP may be taken concurrently).

Language: English for the course, but practice and the reliability test can be partly in selected other languages if available.

Benefits to clinicians of taking the AAI course:

• Provide crucial history about danger & its impact on personal adaptation, particularly as it affects psychological treatment
• Change the way you hear language, especially in treatment
• Change the way you use language, especially in treatment
• Establish a shared knowledge base with your client/patient
• Create compassion where there was blame or doubt
• Create a way of working together in treatment
• Jumpstart the treatment or restart a stalled treatment
• Set the speaker’s mind in motion
• Enable the therapist to find the person’s ZPD
• Enable the therapist to avoid blind alleys
• Permit reliable coders to classify the strategies used by individuals;
• Note: coding reliability and earning a coding certificate usually require more effort than this 18-day course.

Cost: £2250 (+ VAT in the UK)

The registration fee covers the course, feedback on participant’s 3 AAIs, practice transcripts between sessions, and the reliability test. Enrolment is not guaranteed until payment is made. Payment must be complete before the course is begun.

All payments are non-refundable.

Registration: please contact Rebecca Carr-Hopkins regarding registration (rebecca@iswmatters.co.uk). There is a limited number of participants.

Cancellation: the course may be cancelled if fewer than six people register.