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Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS)

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Objectives

  1. Integrate the IFS therapy model into your clinical practice and accelerate the healing from complex trauma.
  2. Analyze the protective parts of clients with trauma histories to help with assessment and treatment planning.
  3. Apply an alternative view of symptoms and psychopathology, showing how client’s parts are actually trying to protect them from emotional pain and psychological pain.
  4. Demonstrate how IFS therapy translates common comorbidities into parts language, showing a non-pathological perspective of mental health disorders.
  5. Communicate how IFS therapy increases the therapist’s curious and compassionate self when working with clients who have trauma histories.
  6. Differentiate a therapeutic issue from a biological condition for better decision making in your clinical practice.
  7. Evaluate traditional attachment theory perspectives on healing to the IFS therapy view (an internal attachment model) and learn to trust the clients’ internal relationship to heal their traumatic wounds.
  8. Determine if trauma symptoms are rooted in sympathetic activation or parasympathetic withdrawal to help inform the treatment process.
  9. Demonstrate IFS specific therapeutic techniques that shift arousal and withdrawal, allowing quicker access to clients’ traumatic vulnerabilities.
  10. Develop a deep understanding of how neuroscience informs therapeutic decisions in IFS therapy.
  11. Integrate IFS therapy with your current treatment approaches including EMDR, DBT, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.
  12. Differentiate IFS therapy to traditional phase-oriented treatment and learn accelerated ways of accessing and healing traumatic wounds.

Copyright : 26/04/2018

BONUS: Treating Complex Trauma Clients at the Edge: How Brain Science Can Inform Interventions

We often get shaken and lose confidence in our approach when a client’s trauma response edges into seemingly uncontrollable dynamics of rage, panic, or suicidal desperation.

Watch Frank Anderson, colleague of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and Dr. Richard Schwartz, as he provides an essential road map for treating relational trauma cases. Explore the neurobiological processes of hyperarousal and parasympathetic withdrawal and the underlying symptoms.

Watch now and you will also learn various therapeutic techniques and interventions that can be integrated with psychotherapy practices to help soothe your clients’ trauma.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Evaluate the extreme symptoms of trauma by determining if they are rooted in sympathetic activation or parasympathetic withdrawal to inform clinical treatment interventions.
  2. Articulate methods by which neuroscience can be interfaced with psychotherapy practices to improve clinical outcomes.

Copyright : 23/03/2018