Session Five - Beginning Therapy and its Vicissitudes
Session Five – Content Level: Intermediate
Beginning therapy and its vicissitudes
Objectives:
1. Define phase-oriented treatment of complex trauma and dissociative disorders
2. Discuss the rationale for phase-oriented treatment of dissociative disorders
3. Outline the issues in developing self-care in patients with dissociative disorders
4. Discuss the impact of training in dissociative disorders on the treatment of dissociative clients
Readings:
A. Chu, JA (2011) Rebuilding Shattered Live: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders, 2nd edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons, pp. 109-128 (Chapter 6).
B. Howell, EF (2011) Understanding and treating Dissociative Identity Disorder. NY: NY Routledge, pp. 167-185 (Chapter 9)
C. Chu, JA (2011) Rebuilding Shattered Live: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders, 2nd edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons, pp. 129-146. (chapter 7)
D. Myrick, A.C., Chasson, G.S., Lanius, R.A., Leventhal, B. & Brand, B.L. (2015) Treatment of Complex Dissociative Disorders: A Comparison of Interventions Reported by Community Therapists versus Those Recommended by Experts, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 16:1, 51-67.
Timed outline:
15 minutes: Discussion of Readings A and B – defining phase oriented treatment of dissociative disorders
45 minutes: Discussion of Readings A and B - rationales for phase oriented treatment of complex trauma and dissociative disorders
60 minutes: Discussion of Readings C – developing self-care in clients/patients
30 minutes: Discussion of Reading D– research into patient care and trauma-dissociation-informed therapist
Available Credit
- 2.50 APAThe 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.