Continuing Education

For the last 90 years, educating mental health professionals has been an important aspect of the Center's mission. The Erikson Institute for Education and Research brings professionals at all levels of experience together for conferences, lectures, and workshops held at the Austen Riggs Center. Many of these presentations and discussions build on the Center's intensive clinical work and some continue Erik Erikson's effort to generate knowledge at the boundaries between psychodynamic thinking and other disciplines.

We are pleased to offer online continuing education programs designed for mental health professionals, including psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers, with no registration fee. These presentations are in the form of webcasts, papers, and audio podcasts.

Registration and Sign In

If you would like to view the continuing education material on this site and you are a new user please REGISTER. An email will be sent to you with a user name and password. You can then click on the program you would like to view, prompting the user name and password to be entered.

Please SIGN IN if you have already registered.

Current Continuing Education Offerings

We are in the process of developing new online continuing education programs. If you have suggestions for future topics please email erikson@austenriggs.net.

The Y-Model for Teaching Psychotherapy Competencies - Eric Plakun, M.D., Director of Admissions and Professional Relations, Austen Riggs Center

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Teaching psychiatry's three current core psychotherapy competencies--CBT, Psychodynamic Therapy and Supportive Therapy -- has been a challenge. Utilizing an approach to teaching psychotherapy that is based on existing comparative psychotherapy process research, the Y-model integrates the teaching of psychotherapy to trainees and compares and contrasts schools of therapy based on their underlying theoretical assumptions, with technique following from theory.