Adult Attachment Projective Training

Psychologists, licensed mental health professionals, and graduate students in mental health fields are invited to attend this training seminar. This 8-day training seminar teaches the AAP coding and classification system. At the end of the seminar, trainees are prepared to interpret and use the AAP in clinical and research settings. Trainees may wish to complete reliability certification. Trainees who do not wish to obtain reliability must use a reliable judge to obtain valid scoring. For more information about the AAP, see www.attachmentprojective.com. More information about reliable judge scoring is provided during the training.

Participants for this training must have some familiarity with attachment theory as demonstrated by attending An AAP pre-training workshop, attending training for any other attachment assessment (e.g., Strange Situation, Adult Attachment Interview), or graduate or professional study of attachment theory. Questions about background preparation should be sent to Carol George, Ph.D. (aapinfo@comcast.net).

There are two steps to becoming certified in the AAP, the completion of 1) the AAP training seminar and 2) reliability coding. Reliability typically takes 3-12 months. The reliability standards follow the standard for attachment measurement. An AAP judge is reliable when the judge achieves a score of 80% correct on at least 30 AAP cases. The judge may use as many as 50 cases during the 1-year period to establish reliability. More information about reliability is provided during the training seminar.