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ForwardIOP Seminar 2026 - Beginning a Treatment , Instructor: Jacquelyn Harden, PsyD
This seminar will focus on the frame involved in beginning a psychodynamic treatment. Tenets of establishing the frame, the role of the psychotherapist, and boundaries that contain a psychodynamic treatment will be explored. Participants will explore these topics through readings, discussion, and application of clinical examples.
Target Audience
__X____ Introductory ______ Intermediate ______ Advanced
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to identify three key elements of the frame and their relevance to the beginning of a treatment.
Participants will be able to discuss the manner in which they orient a patient to treatment at the outset of therapy.
Participants will be able to describe deviations in the frame and what they might indicate about treatment.
Participants will be able to assess boundary violations relevant to a psychodynamic treatment.
Participants will be able to explain the differences between classical and contemporary approaches to maintaining the frame in treatment.
Course summary
- 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
ACCME - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for a maximum of 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 6.00 ASWB-ACE
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this. Social workers completing this will receive 6.00 continuing education credit(s).Austen Riggs Center, Inc is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0843.
Jacquelyn Harden, PsyD, is a psychologist in the Austen Riggs Center Remote Access IOP. She received her PsyD from George Fox University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychoanalytic studies at Norwich University. Dr. Harden also completed a 4-year postdoctoral fellowship in hospital-based psychoanalytic studies at the Austen Riggs Center. Her areas of interest include feminist perspectives in psychoanalysis, the phenomenology of psychotic experience, spirituality, and early characterological development.
Austen Riggs Center Inc. adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. All those at Austen Riggs Center involved in the planning of this activity, including the presenter(s) listed above, report they have no relevant financial relationships with an ineligible company*.
The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the presenter(s) and do not necessarily represent the official policy or position of the Austen Riggs Center.
* An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Available Credit
- 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
ACCME - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for a maximum of 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 6.00 ASWB-ACE As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this. Social workers completing this will receive 6.00 continuing education credit(s).
Austen Riggs Center, Inc is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0843.