Living Legend Webinar: Trauma, Shame, and Humiliation as a Doorway to Criminal Offending

November 7, 2024

Abstract
The great influx of traumatized people into our correctional systems has been especially represented by cultures disadvantaged by color and poverty. Many studies have shown the vast majority of such people to have suffered significant developmental trauma, both within fragmented families and neighborhood violence. While shame and humiliation are ubiquitous sequelae of relational developmental trauma across all cultures, these dynamics are expressed differently dependent on the particular family and extended environment one must negotiate.

The chronicity of shame dynamics due to early trauma relies upon dissociation of vulnerable affects and attachment needs. Realization of the intent to harm by caregivers also precludes awareness of anger/rage which are natural outcomes of realizing that intent. This chronic condition typically requires a repertoire of shame defenses that protect the self from such realizations. The mandates of the ambient relational environment, both within and outside of the family will often determine which shame defenses will be utilized, thus making culture one of those determinants.

This workshop will focus on how living in marginalized communities and cultures can shape shame defenses as well as differing presentations of complex PTSD and DID. One major difference that will be discussed is externalizing vs internalizing defenses and their respective behaviors. We will also discuss how peritraumatic dissociation of rage can lead to depersonalized violence, even in the absence of DID.

Potential to Distress: Yes

Target Audience

Intermediate 

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

  • Identify how both ambient and family cultures and values help determine shame defenses
  • Describe how dissociated shame/humiliation can result in acts of violence
  • Discuss how antisocial personality disorder can disguise the effects of trauma and dissociation
  • Explain why some traumatized people use internalized versus externalized defenses
  • Describe alternative post traumatic effects and symptoms seen in incarcerated individuals
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.00 APA
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • 3.00 ASWB ACE
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), #1744, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2024 – 08/20/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 3.00 continuing education credits.
  • 3.00 ISSTD Certificate Program
    This program is eligible for 3.00 credits in the ISSTD Certificate Program. No certificate of completion is generated for this type of credit.
Course opens: 
11/01/2023
Course expires: 
12/31/2050
Event starts: 
11/07/2024 - 5:00pm EST
Event ends: 
11/07/2024 - 8:00pm EST
ISSTD Member cost:
$59.00
Your Price:
$59.00
Part of: 
2024 Webinar Pass
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Timed Outline:
30 Minutes - Introduction to prevalence of trauma in offenders
30 Minutes - Psychodynamics of shame/humiliation in developmental trauma.
30 Minutes - Violence: Expressions of humiliated/dissociated rage or psychopathy?
30 Minutes - How DID presents differently in offender populations.
30 Minutes - The misnomer of "antisocial"
30 Minutes - Summary/Q&A

Presenter: Richard A. Hohfeler, PsyD
Presenter Bio: Dr. Rick Hohfeler is a clinical psychologist who graduated from Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in 1986. He has maintained a private practice in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area for the past 30 years, specializing in psychological trauma since 1988 as co-manager of an inpatient program treating survivors of abuse at Rogers Memorial Hospital where he also co-managed an inpatient program treating children and adolescents until 1995. He continues to treat adults, children, and adolescents suffering from disorders associated with severe developmental trauma including a special emphasis on dissociative disorders in private practice. Rick supervises a large mental health clinic in the Milwaukee area that serves many patients with severe trauma and dissociation.This clinical specialty was also applied in a part-time position within the Wisconsin Department of Corrections from 2008-2020. He has provided supervision and consultation to therapists and case managers from a variety of agencies in the Milwaukee area for the past 20 years with consultation affiliations having expanded internationally. Rick is a faculty member of the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he teaches courses in trauma and dissociation.

He is a member of ISSTD and was elected to their Board of Directors in 2016. Since 2014, he has acted as moderator for the Virtual Book Club sponsored by ISSTD. He has presented professionally on topics related to trauma and dissociation locally, nationally, and internationally. He has published papers related to working with trauma/dissociation in forensic settings and is in process of releasing a paper regarding the regulatory aspects of shame in dissociative disorders.

Available Credit

  • 3.00 APA
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • 3.00 ASWB ACE
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), #1744, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2024 – 08/20/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 3.00 continuing education credits.
  • 3.00 ISSTD Certificate Program
    This program is eligible for 3.00 credits in the ISSTD Certificate Program. No certificate of completion is generated for this type of credit.

Price

ISSTD Member cost:
$59.00
Your Price:
$59.00
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Registration Policies

Cancellations prior to the webinar are subject to a $10 cancellation fee. No refunds are provided for no shows. The deadline for cancellations with a refund is November 4, 2024 at 5:00pm US Eastern Time. Requests for cancellation should be sent to [email protected].

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