THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEANING: How Individual Worldviews Are Constructed in Relationships

This presentation was originally reviewed on April 22, 2025, and live streamed online on April 25, 2025, from 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm ET.

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Productive and meaningful therapy often hinges on a clear understanding of the worldview of the client. Deepened, more empathic understanding of clients would be enhanced by knowledge of how such individual worldviews arise and evolve. Such information about the construction of individual meaning systems is now available, based upon rigorous longitudinal research. The goal of this presentation is to summarize this emerging knowledge in a way that makes clear its clinical relevance.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for psychologists, social workers, counselors and other mental health professionals. 

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, attendees will be able to:

  1. Define development and its relevance to clinical work
  2. Identify how both resilience and maladaptation are outcomes of development
  3. Explain why the relationship is crucial for positive therapy outcomes
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.50 Category II credits for Social Workers
  • 1.50 Psychologists
  • 1.50 Participation
Course opens: 
06/05/2025
Course expires: 
06/03/2027

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About the speaker

L. Alan Sroufe, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Child Psychology in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. Professor Sroufe received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Wisconsin with a clinical internship at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. Dr. Sroufe has been an Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology and Development and Psychopathology. An internationally recognized expert on early attachment relationships, emotional development, and developmental psychopathology, he has published seven books and 150 articles on these and related topics.

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Available Credit

  • 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.50 Category II credits for Social Workers
  • 1.50 Psychologists
  • 1.50 Participation
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEANING: How Individual Worldviews Are Constructed in Relationships

 

L. Alan Sroufe, PhD

Professor Emeritus of Child Psychology, The Institute of Child Development

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

 

Originally reviewed April 22, 2025.
Originally broadcast live on April 25, 2025, from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm ET.
Enduring Activity Credit Expiration Date: June 3, 2027.

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