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A Life Sentence: How the Study of Ongoing Incest During Adulthood Informs Us About the Nature of Organized Abuse
  • Advanced
  • Free to Members
  • Webinar
  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
$35.00
​​​​​​​Ongoing incest during adulthood almost invariably incorporates one or more forms of organised sexual and other abuse - whether it be multi-generational familial sexual abuse, the involvement of groups of workmates and others associated with the father, organised child and adult prostitution, or groups of abusers associated with churches or cults.
Internal and External Safety
  • Advanced
  • Free to Members
  • Intermediate
  • Webinar
  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
$35.00
Victims of organized abuse, in particular mind control and ritual abuse, frequently have deliberately designed personality systems with parts trained to maintain the security of the perpetrator group. Survivors' physical safety is endangered by parts trained to maintain ongoing contact with perpetrators. I shall discuss the different kinds of access training, with suggestions for preventing and avoiding ongoing access. Survivors are also endangered by parts trained to punish the person for forbidden behavior such as disclosures, so that telling secrets results in decompensation. I shall talk about the structure of the organized personality system, internal hierarchies, the role of punisher parts and their bosses, and ways to prevent or stop symptoms such as emotional flooding, pain, and self-harm which result from punisher parts doing their jobs.
Ongoing Incestuous Abuse During Adulthood
  • Advanced
  • Free to Members
  • Intermediate
  • Webinar
  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
$35.00
​​​​​​​Substantial numbers of patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder at the time of presentation as adults report incestuous abuse continuing into the adult years and for many, the abuse is current and ongoing. Data relating to a series of 10 such incestuously abused women is presented. Such patients usually have been sexually abused from a very early age (typically from under age 3), with the manipulation of their sexual response a key component in conditioning an enduring sexualized attachment, at the same time shame and fear are used as key components in maintaining compliance and silence.
Crisis Management for Clients with Complex Trauma
  • Advanced
  • Free to Members
  • Webinar
  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
$35.00
Therapists can be overwhelmed by working with clients with frequent crises that threaten the life, safety, and health of the client. Often, clients suffering from Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorders present with a phenomenal array of crisis events. Therapists often struggle with the complexity, frequency, and severity of these events, and their overwhelming emotional toll on both client and therapist.
'Not Safe, Not Stable’ - Suicidality and Self Harm in Clients with Complex PTSD and Dissociation
  • Advanced
  • Webinar
  • 1.50 APA
  • 1.50 ASWB ACE
  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
$55.00
Abstract Working with severely traumatized people, people on the edge of life and death, demands an intense amount of focus, energy, and skill. The process is challenging for both the client and the therapist, requiring both to deal with serious issues for extended periods of time.
Beyond the Basics of EMDR: Applications in Working with Dissociation in Different Populations
  • Advanced
  • Beginning/Introductory
  • Intermediate
  • Webinar
  • 6.00 APA
  • 6.00 ASWB ACE
  • 6.00 ISSTD Certificate Program
$129.00
Abstract
The Development of the Self in the Presence of a Frightening Caregiver ("scare-giver") and the Moves Towards Safety and Growing
  • Advanced
  • Webinar
  • 1.50 APA
  • 1.50 ASWB ACE
  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
$55.00
Abstract Mary Main and Judith Solomon (1986) were first to identify fear as an important factor in the face of the child's attachment needs. They later named it as the Disorganised attachment status.Their research findings has given us a new lens into the way we perceive human behaviour that is evident in many of our most traumatised clients who are in close proximity to their attachment figures ("scaregivers", Badouk Epstein, 2015). Clients with complex trauma and DID have all suffered chronic childhood injuries to critical areas in their development.
The Development of the Self in the Presence of a Frightening Caregiver ("scare-giver") and the Moves Towards Safety and Growing
  • Advanced
  • Webinar
  • 1.50 APA
  • 1.50 ASWB ACE
  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
$35.00
Abstract Mary Main and Judith Solomon (1986) were first to identify fear as an important factor in the face of the child's attachment needs. They later named it as the Disorganised attachment status.Their research findings has given us a new lens into the way we perceive human behaviour that is evident in many of our most traumatised clients who are in close proximity to their attachment figures ("scaregivers", Badouk Epstein, 2015). Clients with complex trauma and DID have all suffered chronic childhood injuries to critical areas in their development.
The Development of the Self in the Presence of a Frightening Caregiver ("scare-giver") and the Moves Towards Safety and Growing
  • Advanced
  • Webinar
  • 1.50 APA
  • 1.50 ASWB ACE
  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
$35.00
Abstract Mary Main and Judith Solomon (1986) were first to identify fear as an important factor in the face of the child's attachment needs. They later named it as the Disorganised attachment status.Their research findings has given us a new lens into the way we perceive human behaviour that is evident in many of our most traumatised clients who are in close proximity to their attachment figures ("scaregivers", Badouk Epstein, 2015). Clients with complex trauma and DID have all suffered chronic childhood injuries to critical areas in their development.
Healing From Racial Trauma: Rhythm, Processing, and Anti-Racist Psychotherapy
  • Advanced
  • Beginning/Introductory
  • Conference
  • Intermediate
  • 1.50 APA
  • 1.50 ASWB ACE
  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
$55.00
AbstractThe racial justice protests of 2020 were an opportunity to unite people of all backgrounds. Instead, the denial of racism and other forms of misinformation were responses taken by some news outlets and members of the public. Similarly, within the clinical context, there are always opportunities to create significant changes in the lives of our clients. However, some therapeutic approaches do not make adequate considerations for race, gender, and other socially constructed identities.

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