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