Session Five - Learning to Live with Uncertainty and Growing into Creating Meaning
March 5, 2025
Session Five – Content Level: Advanced
Master Topic: Learning to Live with Uncertainty and Growing into Creating Meaning
Abstract
The session will include a discussion of both knowing and not knowing. It will be followed by an understanding of igniting relationships, positive energy in psychotherapy. There will be an opportunity to present case reports.
Objectives
After the completion of this class, participants will be able to:
- Explain why the power of uncertainty is valuable
- Discuss the elements of a therapeutic relationship
- Prepare and present case reports and process therapeutic options
Readings
- Peebles, Mary Jo, (2022) When Psychotherapy Feels Stuck. Routledge, New York, NY. Chapters 5-7 (pp. 76-140).
- Élise Villeneuve , Alison Paradis , Audrey Brassard , Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel , Mylène Fernet , Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan & Natacha Godbout (2024) Dissociation and Sexual Concerns in Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Role of Identity Cohesion, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 25:4.
Timed Outline
75 Minutes: Book Chapter(s)
15 Minutes: Journal Article
60 Minutes: Case presentations
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.
- 2.50 ASWB ACEThe 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 ProgramThis program is eligible for 2.50 credits in the ISSTD Certificate Program. No certificate of completion is generated for this type of credit.