Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society
(a local chapter of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association)
presents a
Two-Part Online Spring Conference
with
Mark H. Waugh, PhD, ABPP
on
What Do We Know
When We Know a Person?
Madeline G. Twenty Years On
March 6 and 13, 2021
10am - 12:15pm
In this two-part conference, participants must attend the programs on March 6 and March 13, 2021 in full in order
to be eligible for continuing education credits.
Participants who attend only one program or attend
part of both programs will not be eligible
for continuing education credit.
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Program Description
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The culmination of Jerry Wiggin’s love affair with the many ways to understand a person (aka personality assessment) was Paradigms of Personality Assessment. Therein eminent assessors from personological, psychoanalytic, interpersonal, multivariate, and empirical traditions independently assessed a single person, Madeline G. Twenty years later, Madeline G. agreed to be evaluated by contemporary exemplar clinicians of these five assessment traditions, with the project framed as a “therapeutic assessment” (Finn, 2006/2020).
This program identifies different ways to knowing a person. Empirical, experiential, and intersubjective sources of information supporting the project are illustrated with assessment material from Madeline in 1999 and 2018, including short video clips of clinical interactions, test data, and commentary.
Presenter
Mark H. Waugh, PhD, ABPP, is a clinical psychologist in practice in Oak Ridge TN. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Florida at Gainesville, with post-doctoral training from Yale Psychiatric Institute, currently he is a staff psychologist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and adjunct clinical and teaching faculty at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has published extensively and generally in the areas of assessment methods and personality disorders. He is the co-editor (with Christopher Hopwood and Abby Mulay) of The DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders: Integrating Multiple Paradigms of Personality Assessment (Routledge, 2019). He considers it a great honor to have worked as co-editor with Christopher Hopwood in orchestrating the re-assessment of Madeline G., featuring exemplar clinicians updating this classic case, as presented in Personality Assessment Paradigms and Methods: A Collaborative Reassessment of Madeline G (Routledge, 2020).
Schedule
9:55am Welcome and Introduction
10:00am Presentation Part 1
11:00am Break
11:15am Presentation Part 2
12:00pm Discussion
12:15pm Adjourn.
Learning Objectives
After attending both parts (March 6 and 13, 2021) of this intermediate Conference in full, participants will be able to:
1. Describe similarities and differences of different paradigms of personality assessment.
2. State personality features that were stable and those that changed over time in this 20-year longitudinal case history.
3. Identify key aspects of the therapeutic assessment frame for appraising persons.
4. Recognize common expressions of the core idiographic “stamp” of a person evident from using different assessment instruments including intersubjective, experiential, and narrative modes of appraisals.
Participants
This program is open to all APS members. It is not limited to individuals practicing in a predominately psychoanalytic mode. The material will be appropriate for clinicians with intermediate levels of experience and knowledge.
Registration
Professional and Scholar Members:
Free. Please register online by March 4, 2021.
Early-Career Professional Members:
Free. Please register online by March 4, 2021.
Graduate Student Members:
Free. Please register online by March 4, 2021.
Non-members:
Please join APS in order to participate in 2020-2021 programming.
APS Membership
Eligible professionals can join APS or renew their membership for the 2020-2021 program year for $40. Scholars and Early-Career Professionals can also join/renew for $40. Graduate students may join or renew for $10.
American Psychological Association Approval Statement
Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Continuing Education
The two-part online Spring Conference (March 6 and 13, 2021 programs), when attended in its entirety, is available for 4.0 continuing education credits. In this two-part conference, participants must attend the programs on March 6 and March 13, 2021 in full in order to be eligible for continuing education credits. With full attendance at both sessions and completion of an online program Evaluation and Learning Assessment, a certificate will be issued by email after the March 13, 2021 session of the conference. Participants who attend only one program or attend part of both programs will not be eligible for continuing education credit.
Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39.
To be eligible for CE credit, please:
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Make sure your name appears in the Zoom Participant tab. Use the Chat Box to inform program hosts if more than one person is watching via a single Zoom account.
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Be present for the entire program on March 6 and March 13, 2021.
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A link to the program evaluation will be shared with participants via the Chat Box at the end of the presentation on March 13, 2021 while the speaker is answering final questions. Participants will enter their names and email addresses on the evaluation so that APS can distribute certificates via email.
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Please complete the evaluation by 1pm (eastern) on March 13, 2021.
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CE certificates will be emailed following the event.
APS and Division 39 are committed to conducting all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. APS and Division 39 are also committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in continuing education activities. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods.
Selected References/Recommended Reading
Finn, S. E. (2006/2020). In our clients' shoes: Theory and techniques of therapeutic assessment. Routledge.
Fonagy, P., Luyten, P., & Allison, E. (2015). Epistemic petrification and the restoration of epistemic trust: A new conceptualization of borderline personality disorder and its psychosocial treatment. Journal of personality disorders, 29(5), 575-609.
Hopwood, C. J., & Waugh, M. H. (Eds.). (2019). Personality assessment paradigms and methods: A collaborative reassessment of Madeline G. Routledge.
Kamphuis, J. H., & Finn, S. E. (2018). Therapeutic assessment in personality disorders: Toward the restoration of epistemic trust. Journal of personality assessment.
McAdams, D. P. (1995). What do we know when we know a person?. Journal of personality, 63(3), 365-396.
Wiggins, J. S. (2003). Paradigms of personality assessment. Guilford Press.
Contact
If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them. Please address requests, questions, concerns and any complaints to APS President Bill MacGillivray, PhD.
There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between Division 39, APS, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding sources that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest. During the program, the validity/utility of the content and risks/limitations of the approaches discussed will be addressed, as applicable.