Selected Topics in Work with Dissociative Identity Disorder
Respice Finem (Look to the end): Beginning Treatment in a Way that Facilitates a Constructive Integration or Resolution as Therapy Proceeds October 15, 2008
This 90-minute webinar (1:30 pm - 3:00 pm) will suggest that certain prognostic variables are associated with good, bad, and intermediate outcomes, and indicate how to improve at least some of the problematic variables in the early stages of treatment.
Try to See It My Way Squared: Identifying and Resolving Stalemates and Impasses in the Treatment of DID and DDNOS August 27, 2008
This 90-minute webinar (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm) will discuss impediments to therapeutic progress in work with these patients, and offer a check sheet for identifying areas that require exploration in order to get therapy back on track.
The Music Behind the Lyrics: Mastering the Dissociative Surface to Facilitate the Understanding and Treatment of DID and DDNOS July 30, 2008
This 90-minute webinar will explain how to recognize and decode the dissociative surface, and how to make interventions based on a process that may never be conveyed in a completely verbal form. Several other approaches to understanding the process of the dissociative patient will also be explored.
The Use of Tomkins’ Innate Affect Theory and Nathanson’s Compass of Shame in Facilitating the Understanding and Treatment of DID and DDNOS June 25, 2008
This 90-minute webinar will review Innate Affect Theory, explain the relationships among various affects and dissociation, and suggest therapeutic strategies to overcome their deleterious impact upon the dissociative patient’s state of mind and interpersonal behavior.
Integrating Mind Body Perspectives in the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization
Treating the Addicted Survivor of Trauma: A Somatic Perspective January 28, 2009
In this 90-minute webinar, join us as we explore an integrated approach to the treatment of trauma and addictive disorders rooted in a neurobiological understanding of traumatic stress will be presented, along with practical strategies and interventions for managing high-risk consequences of addiction.
From MindFlight to MindSight: Overcoming the Phobia of Inner Experience in Chronic Traumatization January 13, 2009
Join us for this 90-minute Webinar as we address elements of “mindflight,” and the maladaptive mental and physical actions that maintain it. We will demonstrate both cognitive and somatic interventions to promote “mindsight” through overcoming the phobia of inner experience and by cultivating the capacity for reflective functioning, perspective, and mental and physical integration in our traumatized patients.
Mentalizing, Mindfulness, and the Body in Chronic Traumatization December 2, 2008
Join us in this 90-minute webinar as we explore therapeutic approaches to increase mentalizing skills, including the body’s role in mentalizing, and will demonstrate both verbal and non-verbal, somatic interventions useful in improving patients’ mentalizing ability. They will also provide a clinical map of “directed mindfulness” that orients attention and enhances reflective functioning.
Psychological Assessment of Dissociative Disorders
Dissociative Disorder Patients’ Profiles on Personality Inventories and Projectives March 30, 2009
This 90 minute workshop will provide an overview of the research on DD patients’ profiles on personality inventories (MMPI/MMPI-2, MCMI-II/MCMI-III) and projectives (Rorschach, Rotter Incomplete sentences, TAT).
The Process of Assessing Dissociative Patients and Their Profiles on Trauma Measures March 16, 2009
This 90 minute webinar is open to all clinicians but some familiarity with psychological testing would be beneficial.
An Office Mental Status Exam for Dissociative Disorders Part 2 March 3, 2009
In addition to discussion of diagnosis and differential diagnosis of dissociative disorders using the OMSEDD, this 90-minute presentation will include clinical examples from a video of a DID patient being interviewed.
An Office Mental Status Exam for Dissociative Disorders Part 1 February 12, 2009
In addition to discussion of diagnosis and differential diagnosis of dissociative disorders using the OMSEDD, this 90 minute presentation will include clinical examples from a video of a DID patient being interviewed.
The Consensus 3-Stage Treatment Model For Dissociation and Trauma Treatment
Stabilizing the disruptions and disrupting the entrenchments: Navigating the pathological adaptations of dissociative and post traumatic conditions September 18, 2009
