WelcomeThe DDPI is a training institute whose purpose is to provide training, certification, and supervision in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy©.
The Institute is directed by Dr. Daniel Hughes, the developer of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. Dr. Hughes received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Ohio University, with a clinical internship at the University of Rochester Medical School. He is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), and the Association for Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children (ATTACh). He consults with various mental health, social service, and residential treatment agencies in Maine and in other states and countries. He also presents workshops and trains therapists throughout the country while maintaining a small direct service practice in Maine. Dan is the author of Building the Bonds of Attachment, 2nd Ed 2006, and Attachment Facilitating Family Therapy, 2008. He conducts training sessions for therapists in the US and internationally.
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is an integrative method of psychotherapy that was developed in the 1990s for the treatment of children and youth who manifested serious psychological problems associated with intrafamilial trauma and serious failure to establish stable attachment patterns. Most of the clients receiving this treatment were residing in foster homes, adoptive homes, or—at times—residential treatment centers. DDP was—and is—highly influenced by the complex theories and extensive research findings related to attachment and intersubjectivity (Hughes 1997, 1998).
Over the past 10 years, DDP has continued to maintain its attachment-focused, family-centered stance while continuing to refine its theoretical foundations and treatment interventions (Becker-Weidman & Shell, 2005; Hughes, 2004, 2006) and to broaden its focus to include the treatment of all families (Hughes, 2007). At the same time there have been two empirical studies that have begun to demonstrate the clinical efficacy of this treatment model (Becker-Weidman, 2006a; 2006b; 2006c), and one publication describing the comprehensive evidence-base of DDP (Becker-Weidman & Hughes, 2008). While DDP continues to develop its theoretical and practice base and although more research is clearly necessary, its theoretical and clinical framework is now well enough established to warrant greater efforts to standardize its use, and to insure that those practicing DDP are remaining faithful to its core principles and practices. For these reasons Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Institute (DDPI) is now being established.
DDPI will provide a certification process for those clinicians who are utilizing the DDP model of treatment and who wish to become certified in having demonstrated their knowledge of its core principles and their competence in its implementation in their practice. To be certified clinicians will have completed a minimum number of hours in DDP course participation and in receiving consultation of their practice of DDP in their treatment (through video review). Clinicians will also be certified to be DDP consultants, who are responsible for the providing consultation to those applying to become DDP certified therapists.
DDPI is currently in the process of establishing a board as well as finalizing the certification processes. In 2009, DDPI will be developing training and treatment manuals that will further operationalize the core principles and interventions of DDP, while still remembering that any such efforts must always be inherently flexible since the central features of each dyadic relationship are unique and often emerge in a nonlinear fashion.
5820 Main Street, Suite 406
Williamsville, NY 14221
Arthur Becker-Weidman, Ph.D.
aweidman@concentric.netDaniel A. Hughes, Ph.D.
dhughes202@comcast.net
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Last updated on: March 8, 2010