Training Title:
Emerging Adulthood, Part B The Transformational Self

Clock Hours: 1

Objectives:
At the completion of this program, participants should be able to: • Review non-traditional ways to think about issues associated with the transition from late adolescence into adulthood. • Discuss the new, unitary framework of interdisciplinary processes called “Regulation Theory,” and how this aids in understanding the new self-state called, “The Transitional Self” • Review the use of the therapeutic relationship as a catalyst for change

Description:
How does a child become an adult? What propels development from late adolescence to adulthood? In this program, we explore “becoming.” Harry Bendicsen describes the deep and personal work that goes into what he has called, “The Transitional Self.” Harry Bendicsen, LCSW, is concerned with the processes that propel the transition from adolescence to adulthood. In his book, "The Transformational Self: Attachment and the End of the Adolescent Phase", he takes major trends in psychological thinking: psychoanalytic theory; complexity theory; attachment theory; relational theories; linguistic theory; and neurological research, and integrates them to create a new framework of interdisciplinary process that he names, “Regulation Theory.” Using these insights, he shows how this becomes the “gateway” to young adulthood.

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