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While the neuroscience of trauma has become a burgeoning field in recent times, it is often difficult for clinicians to translate the research findings into clinically relevant signs and symptoms and to integrate this knowledge into treatment planning.
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In a complex world with many competing interests, social structures are often culpable in creating climates where the strong subvert the weak.
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Relational issues and the related dynamics that occur in the treatment of complex trauma and dissociative conditions are an ever-present and many times confusing aspect of treating this population.
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Attachment theory informs how early relational trauma affects the development of the self.
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Over the past decade, EMDR therapy has begun to mature as an approach that can be applied to treat complex trauma and dissociation.
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Childhood trauma has the potential to overwhelm the coping ability of children and can create developmental changes in brain structure and function. These changes to the developing mind allow for short term survival and sacrifice long term effective functioning. Adolescence is a time when these changes have the potential for both becoming more deeply embedded or largely rectified as the person moves toward adulthood.
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The "Progressive Approach" (Gonzalez & Mosquera, 2012) was introduced in 2010, as a proposal to use of EMDR with Dissociative Disorders in safe way. After many early cautions about the potential dangers of using EMDR with individuals suffering from dissociative disorders, EMDR is still considered by many clinicians as offering interventions that are limited to the treatment of traumatic memories in high functioning clients, and only after a long preparation phase. But this is only one of the ways EMDR can be used with this population.
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