Session Six - Beginning Therapy and its Vicissitudes (continued), Integrating Theory into Clinical Work (Part 2)

January 10, 2023

Session Six – Content Level: Intermediate
Beginning therapy and its vicissitudes (continued)
Integrating theory into clinical work (Part 2)

Objectives:

  1. Discuss the role of safety in the first stage of treatment in patients with dissociative disorders
  2. Describe the need for and use of containment in treating dissociative disorder patients
  3. Apply theory from previous sessions to the cases of Harold 

Readings:

  1. Brand, B (2001) Establishing Safety with Patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 2:4, 133-155.
  2. Chu, JA (2011) Rebuilding Shattered Live: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders, 2nd edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons, pp. 147-159 (Chapter 8)

Additional Materials:

  1. Brand, B (2001) Establishing Safety with Patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 2:4, 133-155
  2. The case of Harold, Part 2

Timed outline:
30 minutes: Discussion of Reading 1 – establishing safety
30 minutes: Discussion of Readings 2 - containment
90 minutes: Discussion of the Case of Harold, Part 2 – stage one stabilization

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 to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ISSTD maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2021 – 08/20/2024. 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.
Course opens: 
05/19/2022
Course expires: 
07/31/2023
Event starts: 
01/10/2023 - 11:00am EST
Event ends: 
01/10/2023 - 1:30pm EST
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 to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ISSTD maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2021 – 08/20/2024. 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.
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