Presented by Alan Fruzzetti, Ph.D. and Karyn Hall, Ph.D.
Learn to improve relationships and reduce emotional conflict.
March 8, 2014
The Hamill Foundation Conference Center
303 Jackson Hill Street
Houston, TX 77007
Cosponsored by:
Secrets of Validation
8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 -9:20 Introductions, Recognitions and Overview of BPD (Perry Hoffman)
9:20 – 9:30 Introduction to conference and speakers
9:30- 10:20 Intro to Validation
What is validation and what is invalidation?
Differences between parents of clinic children and non-clinic children
Depressed vs nondepressed adults and their partners
Impact of invalidating responses vs validating responses on emotional arousal
How validation help regulate another person’s emotions and how invalidating responses contribute to dysregulatio
Common misunderstandings about validation
Role Play: Validation of Normal Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviors
10:20 – 10:30 Questions
10:30 – 10: 45 Break
10:45 – 11:00 Levels of Validation
Level 1: Being present
Level 2: Accurate Reflection
Level 3: Guessing
11:00 – 11:50 Levels of Validation continued
Validation in Specific Situations
Emotional dysregulation in general
What is emotion dysregulation
Role Play with commentary
Self-Validation
Validation and Identity
Practice (everyone)
11:50 – 12:00 Questions
12:00 – 1:15 Lunch
Professional Lunch with Dr. Fruzzetti and Dr. Hoffman
All others have opportunity to interact with panel
1:15- 1:30 Jim and Diane Hall Award Jim and Diane Hall
1:30 – 2:15 Functional Validation
Validation in Problem Solving
Validation By History
Role Play with commentary
2:15- 2:30 Break
2:30 – 3:15 Validation in especially challenging situations
Lying
Poor choices
Angry, invalidating statements
Distorted Thinking
Role Play
Everyone Practice
Drug and alcohol use
3:15 – 4:00 Validation and Setting Your Own Personal Limits
Borrowing money
Having friends over
Staying out late
Borrowing the car
Drug and alcohol use
4:00- 4:30 Questions, Summary and Closing
4:30 – 5:30 Book signing
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