AEDP and Cultural Competence in Developmental Trauma Treatment

Skean, Karen Riggs

doi:10.14713/pcsp.v14i1.2034

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“…I (Skean, 2018) recently commented on a short-term therapy conducted by Vigoda Gonzalez (2018), which integrated Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) with a multicultural framework, using a shared language to enhance connection and increase access to affect, and wanted to touch upon some similarities to and differences from the current work. Vigoda Gonzalez' paper was a detailed account of her work with a relationally traumatized person and was an excellent showcasing of some key AEDP interventions as they were used to build the alliance, deepen affect and achieve a significantly positive outcome.…”

Section: Some Cross-case Comparisons: Helping the Therapist To Be More Presentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Client-Chosen Music in Relational Trauma Treatment: Pathways to the Heart

Skean¹

2019

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This commentary discusses the therapy of a hybridized client (Blimling, 2019) with a difficult relational trauma history in which client-chosen music was combined with a short-term treatment utilizing Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). This combination bypassed rigid defenses and allowed access to a level of affect not ordinarily available to the client, allowing significant symptomatic and relational shifts to occur. Primary goals of helping the client deal with a major loss, reduce his level of depression, and improve his interpersonal functioning were met. Implications for the use of integrative methods with short-term models and the importance of therapist flexibility are discussed.

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Section: Some Cross-case Comparisons: Helping the Therapist To Be More Presentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Client-Chosen Music in Relational Trauma Treatment: Pathways to the Heart

Skean¹

2019

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Moment-to-Moment Guidance of Clinical Interventions by AEDP’s Healing-Oriented Transformational Phenomenology: Commentary on Vigoda Gonzalez’s (2018) Case of "Rosa"

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2018

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This paper, using the methodology of moment-to-moment microanalysis of videotape-based clinical transcripts, explores how Nicole Vigoda Gonzalez’s (2018) case study manifests AEDP’s fundamental transformational phenomenology in clinical action. Vigoda Gonzalez’s highly effective AEDP therapy of Rosa is informed by AEDP’s first "avatar" or iteration (prior to 2008), at the time, a three-state phenomenology. Yet, a close reading of the case reveals the very transformational phenomena, systematically and abundantly reflected in the author’s clinical data, that necessitated the theoretical and clinical developments of AEDP’s second avatar (post-2008) and the current four-state model of transformational change. It is a validation both of the soundness of this student therapist's clinical work and of the accuracy and power of AEDP’s healing-oriented transformational theory that constructs not in the author’s repertoire are nevertheless reflected and illustrated in the unfolding of Rosa’s treatment. This most interesting and unusual experience further illustrates how a descriptive phenomenology, guided by AEDP’s North Star, i.e., its orientation toward the wired-in healing within, can constitute an empirically sound alternative to the manualization of psychotherapeutic treatments. Also uncannily, this parallels the emphasis in Owen's (2013) multicultural orientation (MCO) framework on the need for "values" or "virtues," such as cultural humility, to "inform therapeutic activities as an alternative to the focus on multicultural competencies."

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AEDP and Cultural Competence in Developmental Trauma Treatment

Cited by 2 publications

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Integrating Client-Chosen Music in Relational Trauma Treatment: Pathways to the Heart

Integrating Client-Chosen Music in Relational Trauma Treatment: Pathways to the Heart

Moment-to-Moment Guidance of Clinical Interventions by AEDP’s Healing-Oriented Transformational Phenomenology: Commentary on Vigoda Gonzalez’s (2018) Case of "Rosa"

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