Session Eight - Trauma Processing (Phase 2)

June 11, 2025

Session Description
While many of the tasks of safety and stabilization will re-emerge, this class will focus on desensitizing and processing traumatic memories as part of integrating past and present experiences. This includes themes related to the components of memory work, planning and the use of developmentally appropriate analogy, relevant preparation and pacing considerations for both parents and children, identifying barriers, managing flashbacks, and the intersections of race, culture, ethnicity, and identity in treatment.

Readings

  • Silberg, J. (2022). Interfacing with Systems: Rewriting the script: Processing traumatic memories and resolving flashbacks. In The Child Survivor: Healing Developmental Trauma and Dissociation (pp. 222-253). Routledge.
  • Struik, A.. (2022). Structuring Treatment for Dissociative Children with the Sleeping Dogs Method. In V. Sinason & R. Potgieter Marks (Eds.), Treating Children with Dissociative Disorders: Attachment, Trauma, Theory and Practice (pp. 98-115). Routledge.
  • Woolard, A., Boutrus, M., Bullman, I., Wickens, N., Gouveia Belinelo, P. D., Solomon, T., & Milroy, H. (2024). Treatment for childhood and adolescent dissociation: A systematic review. Psychological trauma: theory, research, practice, and policy.

Videos

  1. National Child Traumatic Stress Center. (2020). How Race, Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity Impact Treatment of Trauma. 
  2. National Child Traumatic Stress Center. (2019). Managing Parental Dissociation During a Dyadic Therapy Session: Meeting the Needs of a Dysregulated Parent and Child

Timed Outline
30 minutes: Discussion of Reading 2 – Structuring trauma processing
30 minutes: Discussion of Reading 1 – Processing traumatic memories and resolving flashbacks
30 minutes: Discussion of Reading 3 – Models of the treatment of dissociation in children
30 minutes: Discussion of Videos 1 & 2 – Racial and cultural considerations, managing parental dissociation
30 minutes: Discussion of case study and case materials applying the above readings to disguised cases
 

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Identify the importance of trauma processing with dissociative children and adolescents
  • Describe the central components of memory processing with dissociative children and adolescents
  • Name at least two therapeutic interventions or modalities used to treat children and adolescents presenting with dissociative symptoms and/or disorders
  • Discuss the use of analogy as part of psychoeducation and trauma processing with dissociative children and adolescents
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.50 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.
  • 2.50 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 2.50 continuing education credits.
  • 2.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
    This program is eligible for 2.50 credits in the ISSTD Certificate Program. No certificate of completion is generated for this type of credit.
Course opens: 
11/01/2024
Course expires: 
07/31/2025
Event starts: 
06/11/2025 - 5:30pm EDT
Event ends: 
06/11/2025 - 8:00pm EDT
Part of: 
The Assessment and Treatment of Traumatic Dissociation in Children and Adolescents | Hosey 2025
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Available Credit

  • 2.50 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.
  • 2.50 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 2.50 continuing education credits.
  • 2.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
    This program is eligible for 2.50 credits in the ISSTD Certificate Program. No certificate of completion is generated for this type of credit.
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