Complex Trauma & Dissociation Across the Lifespan, Module 3

The event is part three of a five-part series.  Register for all events $315

COMPLEX TRAUMA & DISSOCIATION ACROSS THE LIFESPAN

Theory, Clinical Assessment, and Stabilization

Part 1

Pandemic stresses are further activating dissociative and other entrenched defenses in clients of all ages with complex trauma and dissociation. This may cause significant dysregulation and distress, making treatment more challenging than usual. This training offers a unique integration of approaches across the lifespan, from children to the elderly, providing clinicians with the basic theory, clinical assessment skills, and stabilization strategies to support clients coping with the effects of early and chronic trauma.

Clinicians attending this training will be able to:

MODULE 3: THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP

• Describe manifestations of disorganized attachment in children, adolescents and adults: Problems with too much closeness or distance
• Describe preoccupied and dismissing attachment schemas and tendencies in the therapeutic relationship
• Employ a collaborative relational approach that treats all parts as aspects of one person and honors the client’s protective needs while promoting realization and integration
• Discuss the challenges of caretaking and rescue
• Discuss therapeutic boundaries, limits and the therapeutic frame, including how to reset appropriate boundaries
• Develop therapeutic relationship and boundaries with child client’s parents and caregivers
• Demonstrate understanding of how to use attunement, resonance and synchrony
• Apply principles of mentalizing: Holding the client’s mind in mind as well as our own