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COMING SOON: You'll be able to click on each of the titles of these pre-conference workshops for in-depth descriptions of the presentations.
Pre-conferenceS: 1 - 4
Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:00am - 5:00pm
1. Introduction to Understanding and Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociation
Kathy Steele, CS, MSN; Philip Kinsler, PhD; Joan Golston, LCSW
This specially priced workshop is the perfect opportunity for clinicians to learn the basics of working with the severely traumatized patients that can be found in every clinical practice. Faculty will provide a clear understanding of the effects of repeated trauma and a three-stage approach to treating it. Participants will be taught how to prioritize treatment goals and the need to pace and sequence the treatment. Special attention will be given to to assessing for dissociateive disorders and treating dissociation..
2. Introduction to Dissociation and Treating Dissociative Patients
Joan Turkus, MD; James Chu, MD; Richard Loewenstein, MD
Taught by senior clinicians in the dissociative disorders field, this workshop is for anyone (from students to seasoned clinicians) who wants to be able to recognize dissociation’s elusive manifestations and who wants to know how to proceed in therapy. Faculty will provide a clear exposition of dissociation and its most common presentations in clinical practice. A phase-oriented therapy will be taught:
(1) stabilization, (2) trauma work, and (3) re-establishing a normal life. This is your opportunity to find out whether that puzzling patient of yours has a dissociative disorder.
3. Understanding and Dealing with the Effects of Complex Trauma and Dissociation in Children & Adolescents
Sandra Wieland, PhD; Frances S. Waters, DCSW, LMSW, LMFT; Sandra Baita, PsyD; Na'ama Yehuda, MSC, SLP
This workshop is designed for child therapists, educators, child protection workers, and forensic evaluators. The morning session will comprehensively cover the effects of trauma on children. The faculty will pay particular attention to dissociation—the ways that a child’s emotions, body sensations, thoughts, behavior, and memories can be fragmented by repeated abuse and neglect. In the afternoon, attendees will divide into three separate groups for discussion of interaction and treatment strategies specific for each discipline: (1) therapists and counselors; (2) teachers, educational consultants, teacher aides, and speech and language pathologists; and (3) child protection workers and forensic evaluators.
4. Facing the Many-Headed Dragon Together: Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples and Complex Trauma
Sue Johnson, EdD
Director, International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)
Director, Ottawa Couple and Family Institute Inc.
Professor, University of Ottawa
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a couple intervention that is ideally suited to addressing relationship distress in couples facing PTSD and Complex PTSD. EFT actively processes and integrates emotion, revises negative models of self, and fosters interactions that create secure bonding. The safe haven and secure base offered by responsive love relationships is the ideal healing environment for those wounded by trauma. EFT is an empirically validated therapy that has been specifically validated for traumatized couples. Attendees will participate in experiential exercises and watch DVDs of EFT interventions.
Pre-conferenceS: 5 - 9
Friday, October 15, 2010 9:00am - 5:00pm
5. Keys to Successful Treatment of Dissociative Children and Adolescents
Frances S. Waters, DCSW, LMSW, LMFT ; Joy Silberg, PhD
This workshop for advanced trauma therapists will use case studies, artwork, and videos to illustrate effective intervention techniques for dissociative children and adolescents. The faculty will teach attendees (1) strategies which help the traumatized child to regulate overwhelming affect, (2) how to identify the triggers of destructive behavior, (3) how to foster new responses in the child to traumatic reminders, and (4) how to use integrative language to help the child process trauma, erode dissociative barriers, and become a unified self that is functional in relationships and at school.
6. Have We All Gone Mad? Understanding and Working with Complex Client-Therapist Interactions and Covert Communications in Developmental Trauma Disorders
Su Baker, MEd; John O’Neil, MD, FRCPC
You are a skilled professional, with years of experience? Fifty minutes pass in a “flash” – your developmentally traumatized client leaves the office. You feel frustrated, confused, bewildered, disoriented, frightened, and definitely deskilled. What just happened? Have you gone mad? The faculty of this advanced workshop will show how traumatic and attachment issues can be resolved by using the therapeutic frame; the therapists’ feelings, thoughts, and acts; and the dramas that are inadvertently re-enacted by the therapist and client.
7. Conducting Effective Trauma Therapy and Ten Ways It Can Go Wrong
Donald Fridley, PhD; Steve Frankel, PhD, JD; Richard Chefetz, MD
This workshop addresses the recurring ‘culprit’ in the complications and impasses that arise in therapy with posttraumatic and dissociative patients—over-focus on technique and under-focus on the fundamentals of good therapy. Posttraumatic patients confront therapists with recurrent issues that can undermine the therapy: the difference between ‘simple’ and complex PTSD; trance logic; cognitive errors; identification with the aggressor; pervasive unconscious autohypnotic phenomena; historic themes and emotions that affect the therapeutic relationship; posttraumatic depression and suicidality; and the therapist’s own vicarious traumatization.
8. Stage II Trauma Treatment: Doing the Dirty Work
Richard P. Kluft, MD, PhD
This central topic of the workshop is the safe and effective processing of trauma in patients with complex PTSD and/or a dissociative disorder. Attendees are presumed to possess basic psychotherapy skills and basic knowledge about PTSD and dissociative disorders. DID will serve as the paradigmatic condition under discussion, but over 95% of the material presented will not be specific to DID. Dr. Kluft will address the balance between therapeutic restraint and active dealing with trauma, the patient’s conscious and unconscious expectations about trauma treatment, abreaction, and the tension between historical and intrapsychic reality.
9. EMDR with Dissociative Clients: 17 Secrets
Sandra Paulsen, PhD
The unmodified standard protocol of EMDR can produce serious clinical setbacks with dissociative patients because it can prematurely breach dissociative barriers, releasing a flood of traumatic material that exceeds the client’s capacity and resources. Dr. Paulsen, a pioneer in the development of safe and effective techniques for using EMDR with dissociative clients, will present 17 guidelines and techniques that prepare for, pace, and trouble-shoot EMDR with dissociative clients. She will teach their use in the context of the phased treatment of clients with a complex dissociative disorder such as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) or Dissociative Disorder NOS (DDNOS). |
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