Session Four - How Words Matter and the Value of Awareness

May 21, 2025

Session Four – Content Level: Advanced
Master Topic: How Words Matter and the Value of Awareness

Abstract
Gaining an understanding that feeling stuck is not always a bad thing. This will be followed by a discussion of how words matter and how insights in psychotherapy only take root with awareness and practice. There will be an opportunity to present case reports.

Objectives
After the completion of this session, participants will be able to:

  1. Explain why feeling stuck in psychotherapy is actually a place of opportunity
  2. Illustrate ways in which words can be harsh or helpful
  3. Prepare and present case reports and process therapeutic interventions

Readings

  • Peebles, Mary Jo, (2022) When Psychotherapy Feels Stuck. Routledge, New York, NY. Chapters 1-4 (pp. 1-75).
  • Lynette S. Danylchuk (2015) The Training of a Trauma Therapist: Bringing It. Home, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 16:1, 1-6, DOI: 10.1080/15299732.2014.930804.

Timed Outline
75 Minutes Book Chapter(s)
15 Minutes: Journal Article
60 Minutes: Case presentations
 

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 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 2.50 continuing education credits.
  • 2.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
    This program is eligible for 2.50 credits in the ISSTD Certificate Program. No certificate of completion is generated for this type of credit.
Course opens: 
01/01/2025
Course expires: 
10/31/2025
Event starts: 
05/21/2025 - 7:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
05/21/2025 - 9:30pm EDT
Part of: 
Master Seminar - Complex Posttraumatic and Dissociative Disorders | Turkus February 2025
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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 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 2.50 continuing education credits.
  • 2.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
    This program is eligible for 2.50 credits in the ISSTD Certificate Program. No certificate of completion is generated for this type of credit.
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