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ForwardUsing an Attachment-based Approach to Understand and Work with People with DID
Abstract
This webinar will present an attachment theory model and describe interactions in relationships which have been developed from the work of McCluskey, Heard and Lake. The webinar will then explore the application of the attachment theory model and how it can be used to work with people with a dissociative identity disorder throughout the course of an assessment and attachment-based psychotherapeutic treatment. This will include presenting the seven attachment-based systems which make up this model: care seeking, caregiving, self-defence, interest-sharing, sexuality, the internal environment and the external environment. A detailed piece of work with a person with dissociative identity disorder, in which this model was used to inform the therapeutic work, will be described. This will include identifying what helped the person in the application of this model across different dissociated identities, and areas where further understanding might be further developed.
Potential to Distress: Yes
This presentation was originally presented as a live webinar in August 2024.
Target Audience
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Upon Completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Explain the model of attachment described by McCluskey, Heard and Lake.
- Describe how the attachment model can be used to assess a person with dissociative identity disorder.
- Identify the characteristics of the seven attachment-based systems which make up the attachment model.
- List the ways the attachment model can be used to work psychotherapeutically with people with a dissociative identity disorder.
Presenter: Mark Linington, Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Presenter Bio: Mark Linington is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist with the Clinic for Dissociative Studies and The Bowlby Centre in London, UK. He completed his Post Graduate Psychotherapy Training from The Bowlby Centre in 2000. From 2013-2018, he was CEO at The Bowlby Centre, where he continues to work as as a training therapist, clinical supervisor and teacher.
He worked for 12 years in the NHS as a psychotherapist with children and adults with intellectual disabilities, who experienced complex trauma and abuse. He also worked as a psychotherapist for several years at a secondary school in London for young people with special needs, including autism, ADHD and other intellectual disabilities. He has written a number of papers and book chapters about his clinical work and presented papers on attachment theory in clinical practice at a number of conferences, including in South Korea, Hong Kong and Paris.
He is currently CEO at the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, where he is a specialist consultant psychotherapist and clinical supervisor, working with people with a Dissociative Identity Disorder (D.I.D.). He works in private practice with children, adults and families and provides supervision to individuals and groups and training to organisations.
Available Credit
- 3.00 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.
- 3.00 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 3.00 continuing education credits.
- 3.00 ISSTD Certificate ProgramThis program is eligible for 3.00 credits in the ISSTD Certificate Program. No certificate of completion is generated for this type of credit.
Price
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- ISSTD defines a student as those enrolled in a program of study leading to a degree or certification in the mental health field and who have an interest in trauma and dissociation.
- ISSTD defines an emerging professional as mental health professionals who have completed an advanced degree and are in the first three years of their career (or first three years after graduation for researchers).
- If you do not fall into one of the above categories please register as Professional/Retired.
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Registration Policies
Cancellations prior to the webinar are subject to a $10 cancellation fee. No refunds are provided for no shows. The deadline for cancellations with a refund is July 15, 2024 at 5:00pm US Eastern Time. Requests for cancellation should be sent to [email protected].
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