• Enduring
  • Recorded Audio/Video Conference
  • Conference
  • Intermediate
Psychotropic medications are widely used in the treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), yet the literature to guide their use is almost nonexistent. The prescriber faces the challenge of distinguishing whether particular symptoms, such as dramatic mood shifts or auditory hallucinations, represent switches within the alter system, as opposed to co-occurring biological disorders such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
  • Enduring
  • Recorded Audio/Video Conference
  • Beginning/Introductory
  • Conference
In this workshop Mary-Anne discusses the findings from her doctoral research, including from in-depth interviews with 13 in-patients with a Dissociative Disorder (DD), and results from 313 participants from an Australian university and 30 individuals in treatment for a DD
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  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
  • Enduring
  • Package
  • Recorded Audio/Video Conference
  • Advanced
  • Conference
  • Intermediate
Day Two of this conference features who full-day pre-conference workshops.
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  • 12.00 ISSTD Certificate Program
  • Recorded Audio/Video Conference
  • Conference
  • Intermediate
Pride and shame are affects basic to being human, reflecting our valuation of self, others, and relationship. These affects are vital to understanding and working psychotherapeutically with relational trauma and dissociation.
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  • 6.00 ISSTD Certificate Program
  • Recorded Audio/Video Conference
  • Advanced
  • Conference
This workshop will provide cutting-edge training on the organized abuse of children and adults from two international leaders in the study of extreme abuse. Professionals in a range of sectors continue to encounter children and adults with dissociative disorders who disclose early traumatization and severe exploitation within abusive families and criminal networks, including sadism, ritual and torture.
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  • 6.00 ISSTD Certificate Program
  • Recorded Audio/Video Conference
  • Conference
  • Intermediate
​​​​​​​A focus on diagnosis of dissociative disorders distracts clinicians from the more important and more useful discernment of what dissociative processes are active in a given patient "in the moment" and how this provides an entry point into the subjective experience of the patient.
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  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
  • Recorded Audio/Video Conference
  • Conference
  • Intermediate
The Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule DSM-5 Version (DDIS) is a structured interview that diagnoses the DSM-5 dissociative disorders plus somatic symptom disorder, major depressive disorder, and borderline personality disorder.
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  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
  • Recorded Audio/Video Conference
  • Beginning/Introductory
  • Conference
Dissociative Disorders are underdiagnosed, undertreated, and widely misunderstood among mental health professionals. Dissociative disorders are more common than either schizophrenia or bipolar disorder even by conservative estimates, yet individuals suffering from these disorders are typically in the mental health system for years before receiving the proper diagnosis.
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  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
  • Recorded Audio/Video Conference
  • Conference
  • Intermediate
Children and teens with developmental delays and disabilities face high risks for trauma yet at the same time encounter barriers to receiving therapy for traumas they endure. Some barriers arise from professionals’ lack of familiarity with the ways trauma can impact different disabilities, and how posttraumatic and dissociative symptoms might manifest in these populations.
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  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
  • Recorded Audio/Video Conference
  • Advanced
  • Conference
This presentation discusses the neurobiology of dissociation as a post-traumatic response and its relationship to autonomic nervous system (ANS) function, including the underlying physiological mechanisms and defense cascade in response to stressors. Animal models including fight, flight, freezing and tonic mobility, including the involvement of endogenous opioid activation in these states are explored.
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  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program

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