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

April 25, 2025

This presentation will be an ONLINE VIRTUAL LIVE broadcast on April 25, 2025, from 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET. While this activity is LIVE and can only be viewed during the time specified, the evaluation will be available online until May 23, 2025. Go to the Register tab above to learn how to participate for continuing education credit, watch the broadcast and download the slides.

The views and opinions expressed by this presenter in this lecture are their own, and do not represent the views of Sheppard Pratt.

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 I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.50 Psychologists
  • 1.50 Participation
Course opens: 
02/06/2025
Course expires: 
05/23/2025
Event starts: 
04/25/2025 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
04/25/2025 - 1:30pm EDT

There is no commercial support for this activity.

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.

Disclosure Statements

Sheppard Pratt holds the standard that its continuing medical education programs should be free of commercial bias and conflict of interest. In accord with Sheppard Pratt's Disclosure Policy, as well as standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Medical Association (AMA), all planners, reviewers, speakers and persons in control of content have been asked to disclose any relationship he /she has with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. All planners, reviewers and speakers have also been asked to disclose any payments accepted for this lecture from any entity besides Sheppard Pratt, and if there will be discussion of any products, services, or off-label uses of product(s) during this presentation.

L. Alan Sroufe, Ph.D, reports receiving royalties from Safer Society Foundation and Guilford Press. He will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All relationships have been mitigated through review.

Event Planners/Reviewers Disclosures: The following event planners and/or reviewers are reported as having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months: Todd Peters, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis Marino, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.

Psychologist Statement: Sheppard Pratt is authorized by the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists as a sponsor of continuing education. Sheppard Pratt takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CE activity.  Sheppard Pratt designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 contact hour for Psychologists.

Social Worker Statement: Sheppard Pratt is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners of Maryland to offer continuing education for Social Workers.  Sheppard Pratt takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CE activity. This activity is approved for 1.5 contact hour in Category I credits for Social Workers.

Counselor Statement:  Sheppard Pratt has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5098.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Sheppard Pratt is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.  This activity is available for 1.5 NBCC clock hour.

Available Credit

  • 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.50 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.50 Psychologists
  • 1.50 Participation
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This presentation will be an ONLINE VIRTUAL LIVE broadcast on April 25, 2025, from 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET. While this activity is LIVE and can only be viewed during the time specified, the evaluation will be available online until May 23, 2025. Go to the Register tab above to learn how to participate for continuing education credit, watch the broadcast and download the slides.

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Required Hardware/software

Optimal System Configuration

Flash Player: Adobe Flash Player 10.1+
Browser: Firefox 3+, Internet Explorer 8.0+, Safari 4.0+, or Google Chrome 7.0+
Operating System: Windows XP+ or Mac OS X 10.4+
Internet Connection: 1 Mbps or higher

Minimum Requirements

Windows PC: 500-MHz Pentium II; Windows XP or higher; 128 MB RAM; Video Card at least 64MB of video memory; Sound Card at least 16-bit; Macromedia Flash Player 10 or higher, audio playback with speakers for programs with video content; Firefox 1.1+, Internet Explorer 7.0+, Safari 1.0+, Google Chrome, or Opera
Macintosh: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher with latest updates installed; 1.83MHz Intel Core Duo or faster; RAM: 128MB or more; Video Card: at least 64MB of video memory; Sound Card: at least 16-bit

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