Session Seven - The Treatment Frame and Beyond

July 9, 2024

Session Seven – Content Level: Intermediate
The treatment frame and beyond

Readings:

  1. Chu, JA (2011) Rebuilding Shattered Live: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders, 2nd edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons, pp. 160-174 (Chapter 9)
  2. Chu, JA (2011) Rebuilding Shattered Live: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders, 2nd edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons, pp. 175-190 (Chapter 10)
  3. Chu, JA (2011) Rebuilding Shattered Live: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders, 2nd edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons, pp. 191-203 (chapter 11)
  4. Thomson, P & Jaque, SV (2022) Attachment and Memory Stability, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 23:2, 191-204, DOI:10.1080/15299732.2022.2028224

Timed outline:

45 minutes: Discussion of Reading 1 – complexities of therapeutic relationships
30 minutes: Discussion of Reading 2 - chronic disempowerment and its role in therapeutic relationships
45 minutes: Discussion of Reading 3 – boundary maintenance
30 minutes: Discussion of Reading 4 – research into the stability of Internal Working Models, attachment and ACEs in clients

Learning Objectives

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

  1. Discuss the relational dilemmas in treating complex trauma and dissociative disorders
  2. Describe and discuss the outcomes of chronic disempowerment as they are played out in therapy with dissociative disorder and complex trauma patients
  3. Describe and discuss the need for good boundaries in treating dissociative disorder patients.
  4. Discuss the use of ACEs and the AAI to examine the states of mind and the Internal Working Models (IWM) of clients
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: 
01/18/2023
Course expires: 
12/31/2024
Event starts: 
07/09/2024 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
07/09/2024 - 2:30pm EDT
Rating: 
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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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