Session One – Content Level: Advanced
Master Topic: The Ubiquity of Trauma & Dissociation to which Clinicians are not Immune

This session will focus on the meaning of trauma understood as that which causes dissociation.

Objectives:
1. Describe your understanding of the relationship of trauma and dissociation
2. Discuss the contexts: its high prevalence and the way in which clinicians are affected
3. Prepare and present case reports and process therapeutic interventions

Readings:

• Howell, E. (2020) Trauma and Dissociation Informed Psychotherapy:  Relational Healing and the Therapeutic Connection. W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY.  Introduction & Chapters 1-4 (pp. xix-75).
• Chandele Butler, Martin J. Dorahy & Warwick Middleton (2019) The Detachment and Compartmentalization Inventory (DCI): An assessment tool for two potentially distinct forms of dissociation, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation: 20:5, 526-547, DOI:10.1080/15299732.2019.1597809

Timed Outline:
1 hour: Discussion of Chapters 1-4 in Trauma and Dissociation Informed Psychotherapy
15 minutes: Discussion of “An assessment tool for two potentially distinct forms of dissociation”
45 minutes: Case presentations