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🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 Affect Regulation Theory, with Daniel Hill PhD
24/04/2021|8:00 am - 30/04/2021|9:00 pm CEST

ONLINE TRAINING
Affect Regulation Theory: A Clinical Model
Presented by Daniel Hill PhD
650€ 360€ (VAT included)
Discount applicable to the first 60 registered
Ticket sales will begin in April 2021
Llamada gratuita con Daniel Hill PhD
¿Quieres conocer al autor de la Teoría de la Regulación del Afecto?
Te invitamos a una llamada gratuita que haremos el día 8 de abril.
Horario: 1:00pm EST (USA) – 19:00 hora peninsular (CET)
Requisito: registro previo (gratuito)
ONLINE SESSIONS
More than 13 hours of training
The course opens the doors on April 24 to start studying. You have 4 live online Q&A Sessions with Daniel Hill.
Access to the material: students will have access for one year, from the moment of purchase
Location: Virtual Campus – Four Cycles Institute
CE for American Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Social workers, Counsellors, This course is co-sponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars, P.O. Box 14473, Santa Rosa, CA 95402
The content of this training has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles. Click here to see the certificate

Speaker: Daniel Hill PhD
Daniel Hill, PhD is a psychologist and a psychoanalyst, a master teacher and a leading proponent of the affect regulation model. He is the author of Affect Regulation Theory: A Clinical Model (W.W.Norton, 2015 in English). His publications and presentations include topics ranging from the clinical use of multiple models to religious fundamentalism. He was the founder/director of PsyBC and CSAR (1996-2017) that were online learning centres and held conferences on Affect Regulation Theory in NYC. For the past 15 years, Dr Hill has conducted on-going study groups focused on an in-depth understanding of the regulation of affect. He is in private practice in NYC where he is on the faculties of the National Institute of the Psychotherapies and the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
Do you want to meet the speaker? Register for the FREE SESSION that we will do on April 8. Click here to register
About this seminar
Instructions to follow the Seminar:
This is a Self-Study Program that also allows you to interact with the author.
There is a free introductory session on Daniel Hill on April 8th, 2021.
The Program is divided into four concise sections or parts with an assigned Self-study period of time and a live online Zoom call with the author for each section.
During the self-study period you are required to go through the three lectures, the powerpoints PDF presentation, the transcripts and the extra materials, respond to the quiz and prepare your questions for each section Live online Q&A with the Teacher. You will also have a Group Discussion Forum and technical assistance all along.
PROPOSED AGENDA of SELF STUDY ASSIGNED TIME AND LIVE-ONLINE Q&A SESSIONS.
INTRODUCTION TO THE SEMINAR WITH DR. DANIEL HILL
Time and Date: APRIL 8th, 2021, Time UK BST 18 hrs
Place: Live Online Zoom Call, Free Access (1hr duration)
Register here:
https://institutocuatrociclos.com/en/course/affect-regulation-theory-with-daniel-hill-phd/
NEXT STEPS:
- From April 8th to April 23rd: at your own pace and rhythm, after this Introduction you have time to enrol in the program, acquire the suggested accompanying book end enter the Virtual Learning Platform. (VLP).
Book Title: Affect Regulation Theory, A Clinical Model by Daniel Hill PhD
- Begin by reading the book First 4 chapters.
PART 1: THEORY OF BODY-MIND
START SELF STUDY PROGRAM WITH THE FOLLOWING CALENDAR:
- Start studying: PART 1: THEORY OF BODY-MIND,
- Proposed Studying Calendar:
From APRIL 24th, at 12:00 noon UK BST 18 hrs until May 13th UK TIME: 19pm BST
- View: Sessions one to three. (approx. 1 hr. per video lecture)
- Respond to the quiz
- Discuss: in the forum with your peers
- Prepare your questions to be presented for the Live Online Q&A.
- Sign-up for the Live Zoom Q&A Call with Daniel Hill on Theory of Body-Mind related questions.
Time and date: May 13th, UK TIME: 19:00 pm BST
Place: Zoom Link will be provided for the Enrolled Delegated
PART 2: THEORY OF OPTIMAL DEVELOPMENT
START SELF STUDY PROGRAM WITH THE FOLLOWING CALENDAR:
Start studying: PART 2: THEORY OF OPTIMAL DEVELOPMENT
MAY 13th, at 12:00 noon UK BST 18 hrs – May 27th UK TIME: 19pm BST
- View: Sessions four to six (approx. 1 hr. per video lecture)
- Respond to the quiz
- Discuss in the forum with your peers
- Prepare your questions to be presented for the Live Online Q&A.
- Sign-up for the Live Zoom Q&A Call with Daniel Hill on Theory of Optimal Development related questions.
Time and date: May 27th, UK TIME: 19:00 pm BST
Place: Zoom Link will be provided for the Enrolled Delegated
PART 3: THEORY OF PATHOGENESIS
START SELF STUDY PROGRAM WITH THE FOLLOWING CALENDAR:
Start studying from May 27th, at 12:00 noon UK BST 18 hrs – June 10th UK TIME: 19 pm BST
- View Sessions seven to nine (approx. 1 hr. per video lecture)
- Respond to the quiz
- Discuss in the forum with your peers
- Prepare your questions to be presented for the Live Online Q&A.
- Sign-up for the Live Zoom Q&A Call with Daniel Hill on Theory of Optimal Development related questions.
Time and date: June 10th UK TIME: 19:00 pm BST
Place: Zoom Link will be provided for the Enrolled Delegated
PART 4: THEORY OF THERAPEUTIC ACTION
START SELF STUDY PROGRAM WITH THE FOLLOWING CALENDAR:
Start studying from:
June 10th, at 12:00 noon UK BST 18 hrs to June 24th UK TIME: 19 pm BST
- View: Sessions ten to twelve (approx. 1 hr. per video lecture)
- Respond to the quiz
- Discuss: in the forum with your peers
- Prepare your questions to be presented for the Live Online Q&A.
- Sign-up for the Live Zoom Q&A Call with Daniel Hill on Theory of Therapeutic Action related questions.
Time and date: June 24th UK TIME: 19:00 pm BST
Place: Zoom Link will be provided for the Enrolled Delegated
FINISH BY June 30th and obtain your certificate. Keep access to the Lectures for 1 year.
This seminar consists of 12 lectures that provide an in-depth understanding of affect regulation theory’s clinical model. These lectures have been pre-recorded, subtitled and transcribed and translated also for a Spanish Language Version and an Italian Language Version.
This seminar examines our two systems for regulating affect: a primary, early developing system in which the processes are unconscious and automatic and a secondary, later developing one in which the processes are conscious and deliberate. Both systems develop in the attachment relationship. Secure attachment results in the optimal capacity to regulate affect. Insecure attachment, the result of early relational trauma, results in deficits in regulatory capacities. Such deficits result in chronic dissociation at low levels of stress, pervasive shame and personality disorders. Treatment of the capacity to regulate affect occurs in the implicit therapeutic relationship mediated by non-verbal expressions of affect.
This program requires that you read ahead of each lecture the book by Daniel Hill.
Learning goals:
This seminar will provide an in-depth exploration of affect regulation theory with a focus on the primary affect regulating system. At the end of this Seminar the students will be able to:
- Formulate an in-depth understanding of affect regulation theory.
- Define affect
- Name three ways to regulate affect in therapy practice.
- Assess the affect regulating capacities of their patients
- Explain the secure attachment relationship as mediator for fostering a robust capacity to regulate affects.
- Classify their patients' developmental histories
- Distinguish favorable from detrimental developmental situations.
- Inspect how deficits in the capacity to regulate affect develop out of the insecure attachment relationships.
- Formulate strategies to help their patients to ameliorate with the shame experienced due to insecure attachment.
- Identify the ways in which deficits in affect regulation develop into personality disorders and other psychiatric disorders.
- Diagnose from the Affect Regulation perspective
- Design affect-regulation-based treatments
- Identify the value of therapeutic relationship as a catalyst for affective regulation for individuals in psychotherapeutic treatment.
Format
Live sessions
Four 60 minutes Q&A Live Sessions via Zoom Webinar, restricted to course participants, on a schedule (to be confirmed).
Recorded sessions
12 lectures, presented in our VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (VLE). A total of 9,5 hours of video pre-recorded lessons* plus 4 live on-line Q&A sessions.
Downloadable files
Downloadable PDF's of the PowerPoint Presentations and Research Articles
Food for thought materials
CPD (Continued Professional Development Units) available (Canada, UK, NZ, AUS and South Africa).
*These lessons will provide an in-depth understanding of a theory of body-mind, optimal development, pathogenesis and therapeutic action from the point of view of affect regulation theory.
Testimonials
About Daniel Hill, Affect Regulation Theory
“Understanding affect is central to human psychology, and from the start, Freud was concerned with the vicissitude of how emotions connected to ideas and to their transformations into symptoms and psychopathology. And yet psychoanalysis has been slow to develop a comprehensive theory of affects. Daniel Hill is a master teacher, and in Affect Regulation Theory, he demonstrates how affects, and their regulation and dysregulation, are central to our sense of agency, authenticity, and interpersonal relations. He grounds his understanding in psychoanalysis, attachment theory, and neurobiology and illuminates the clinical relevance of relational trauma, dissociation, and self-states, thus integrating a comprehensive theory of mind, development, psychopathology and psychotherapy. This book will be essential reading for graduate students and clinicians.”
“With Affect Regulation Theory, Daniel Hill makes an invaluable contribution to the growing field of psychotherapy that is reflective of a psychobiological perspective. The book is well written, well researched, and comprehensive. For any therapist seeking to broaden his or her theoretical knowledge base, with the ultimate goal of incorporating that information into clinical practice, I recommend reading this book first and foremost”
“Daniel Hill has written a beautiful, user-friendly translation and elaboration of the theories of Allan Schore, Daniel Siegel, and Peter Fonagy. Illustrating with clinical vignettes, Hill integrates affect regulation, early attachment trauma, and theories of neurobiology. This is an excellent book for the working clinician.”
“Affect regulation theory is the surprising meeting ground of neurobiology, developmental psychology, and psychoanalysis. In this important book, Daniel Hill captures its relevance to each of these realms. Wonderfully comprehensive and engagingly written, this book will be a boon to students. It will also captivate those of us whose education preceded these exciting developments by deeply enhancing our understanding of human emotions.”
“Daniel Hill’s Affect Regulation Theory is a superb synthesis of cutting-edge developments in attachment theory and research, mother-infant research, research on mentalization, affect regulation theory, neurobiology and psychoanalytic theory. Clinically astute and gracefully written, it will be of great interest to clinicians coming from a wide range of theoretical orientations.”
“An outstanding contribution, this accessible volume offers fresh and compelling perspectives on dissociation, internal working models, trauma, attachment, pathogenesis and more, all through the lens of affect regulation. Drawing on the work of Allan Schore, the author’s emphasis on the role of the implicit self and brilliant integration of neuroscience and theory with clinical practice will hold your interest page after page. Affect Regulation Theory is sure to spark new ways of thinking about your patients and their problems, challenge how you view your role as clinician, and quite possibly change the way you practice therapy. Don’t miss it!”
Program and learning objectives for each section
There are four sections each comprised of three lectures and assigned readings. Click on the different modules to see the details
Theory of Bodymind
In this section of the seminar we look at how regulation theory employs a trauma model of psychopathology (in this case early attachment trauma ) for its understanding of the aetiology of deficits in the capacity to regulate affect. We then look at how such deficits lead to chronic dissociation, pervasive dissociated shame, character disorders and vulnerability to discrete psychiatric disorders.
Session 1: Affect and Its Regulation (read: Hill, Introduction and Ch.1)
Session 2: Self-states: Regulated-integrated vs Dysregulated-dissociated (Affect is at the core of self-states) (read ahead: Hill, Ch.2)
Session 3: The Neurobiology of Self-States: The Primary Affect Regulating System and the Right Brain (read: Hill, Chapter 3 and 4)
Learning goals:
Students will be able to:
- Study the affect regulation theory’s approach to mind as a subsystem of the organism (Brain-Mind-Body).
- Define Affect
- Inspect affect regulation processes
- Appraise the nature Self-states as states of bodymind that can be either regulated and integrated or dysregulated and dissociated.
- Analyze the neurobiology of self-states.
Both mentalization theory (Fonagy and his collaborators) and regulation theory (Schore) posit that the capacity to regulate affect develops in the attachment relationship. In this section we first look at classical attachment theory and it’s extension into mentalization theory. We then take up Schore’s modern attachment theory to look at how the primary affect regulating system develops.
Session 4: Classical Attachment Theory (read ahead: Hill, Ch. 5)
Session 5: The Mentalization of Affect: The Secondary Affect Regulating System (read: Hill,Ch. 6)
Session 6: Modern Attachment Theory: The Development of the Primary Affect Regulating System (read: Hill,Ch.7).
Learning goals:
Students will be able to:
- Describe the two affect regulating systems.
- Explain the development of the primary and secondary affect regulating systems.
- Identify the developmental milestones of human developmental neurobiology present for Affective Regulation functions.
- Distinguish the relevance of affective states for early attachment relationships.
- Differentiate Bowlby’s Classical Attachment Theory from Allan Schore’s Modern Attachment Theory.
In this section of the seminar we look at how regulation theory employs a trauma model of psychopathology (in this case early attachment trauma) for its understanding of the aetiology of deficits in the capacity to regulate affect. We then look at how such deficits lead to chronic dissociation, pervasive dissociated shame, character disorders and vulnerability to discrete psychiatric disorders.
Session 7: Relational Trauma and Insecure Attachment (read ahead: Hill, Ch.8)
Session 8: The Developmental Origins of Chronic Dissociation (read: Hill, Ch. 9)
Session 9: The Developmental Origins of Pervasive Shame and Character (read: Hill, Ch. 10 and 11)
Learning goals:
Students will be able to:
- Integrate a trauma informed approach to psychopathology
- Indicate the connection between primary affect regulation deficits and Chronic dissociation, pervasive shame and character disorders.
- Diagram the impact of early attachment trauma for vulnerability to discrete psychiatric disorders.
Part 4: Theory of Therapeutic Action
In this section, we take up the therapeutic actions and therapeutic aims of affect regulation therapy. Fundamental aims include the modification of the primary and secondary affect regulating systems and the restoration of self-development. Toward these ends, we will look at implicit and explicit therapeutic actions and focus on vitalizing attunement and interactive regulation is the key mechanisms in the repair of the primary affect regulating system.
Session 10: The Aims of Affect Regulation Theory (read: Hill, Ch.12)
Session 11: Implicit and Explicit Therapeutic Actions (read: Hill, Ch.13)
Session 12: Interactive Regulation, Vitalizing Attunement and the Emergence of Self. (read: Hill, Ch.14)
Learning goals:
Students will be able to:
- Outline the therapeutic aims of the affect regulation therapy.
- Investigate the proposed modifications to the primary and secondary affect regulating systems.
- Revise the repair of the primary affect regulating system through vitalizing attunement and interactive regulation
Dates
Calendar of the Q&A’s with students enrolled in the course:
- May 13th
- May 27th
- June 10th
- June 24th
Schedule
The following schedule will be valid for all the days mentioned
Lima, Peru 13:00 PET
Santiago, Chile 14:00 CLT
Bogota, Colombia 13:00 COT
Buenos Aires, Argentina 15:00 ART
London, United Kingdom 19:00 BST
South Africa Standard Time, 20:00 SAST
New York, USA 14:00 EDT
Los Angeles, USA 11:00 PDT

REQUIRED READING ALONG THE TRAINING:
Follow the course with the book:
“Affect Regulation Theory, A Clinical Model”, by Daniel Hill, PhD.
Available through Amazon USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
FAQs
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What do I need to do the course?
To do this training it is necessary to have a pc or mac, tablet or mobile phone with access to the internet. In addition to some note sheets to take notes
Requirements to connect to Zoom:
1. Open up your browser of choice and enter zoom.us.
– This is accessible from your phone, tablet, or computer desktop.
– Zoom is compatible with Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Microsoft Edge. However, it is not
compatible with Internet Explorer.
– As far as mobil devices, iOS Safari (11 or higher), Chrome and Samsung Internet will work.
2. Once you are on the Zoom main page, you can click “sign up, it’s free”
3. You will be asked to enter your date of birth and your email address.
4. You will then need to confirm your email address and once this is complete you will be able to
login with your details.
Requirements to connect to the online course platform.
You will need one of the following browsers:
For desktop:
-Chrome
-Firefox
– Safari
– Microsoft Edge
Mobile:
– iOS Safari: 11 and up
– Chrome
– Samsung Internet
Note that we do not support Internet Explorer
What if I can't attend the live sessions?
In case you cannot attend some of the sessions, don’t worry because you will have access to the recordings of the live sessions, so you can watch them whenever you want.
If I am finally unable to attend the live sessions, can I get my money back?
There are no refunds after the course has started.
I made a mistake with my registration information. Can I update it?
If you have made a mistake during the registration process, please send us an email to [email protected] and we will help you.
What are the payment methods, and how do I get the invoice?
Payment is possible by credit card or Paypal. An invoice is issued using the information you fill out during the payment process and is sent to you by email to the address indicated in the registration.
Cancellation policy
Because this is an online course there are no refunds once you have started the course on our Virtual Learning Platform.
If you have complains or any kind of incidence you are required to notify us as soon as possible. We can solve all the problems that may have a detectable cause on our end. If the problem is with your computer or your wife connection we may advise you on solutions you can try to fix these. We look forward to your guaranteed satisfaction with this online course.
You must write by email requesting your wish to cancel your participation in the seminar to which you have subscribed: attention: [email protected]
You are entitled to a refund, less 50€ administrative costs, if you cancel at least 15 days before accessing the online event at our plat
Once the event has started you will not be entitled to a refund.
If you are unhappy with the webinar please contact us by email at: [email protected] and explain your complaint, we will try to respond appropriately
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Details
- Start:
- 24/04/2021|8:00 am CEST
- End:
- 30/04/2021|9:00 pm CEST