Full Course Description

Module 1 | Definitions, Assessment, Differential Diagnosis

Many clinicians are trained in the treatment of single traumatic events, but are not fully equipment to treat Complex PTSD. The traditional approaches to the treatment of PTSD can fall short when working with clients with Complex PTSD. Watch this recording to learn how you can adapt your therapeutic approach to help clients diagnosed with Complex PTSD achieve more successful outcomes.

The most common question asked when treating Complex PTSD is, “where do I start?”. In this training, you will develop confidence in your ability to successfully organize and prioritize your client’s treatment goals. You will learn how to compassionately and effectively work with clients who have experienced multiple traumatic events and prolonged trauma exposure.

Successful treatment requires a compassionate therapeutic relationship and effective, research-based interventions. After this two-day workshop you will learn how to:

Help clients move out of crisis by building stabilizing resources
Prepare clients to work through traumatic memories without becoming Overwhelmed
Develop an integrative trauma treatment plan that includes CBT, DBT, EMDR Therapy, Somatic Psychology, Parts Work Therapy, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM).

In this recording, Dr. Arielle Schwartz will show you an engaging and interactive way to learn valuable strategies that will allow you to successfully address the dysregulated affect and arousal states that accompany Complex PTSD. You will leave this seminar with practical tools that facilitate a strength-based approach to trauma recovery and increased resilience in clients.

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Objectives

Distinguish key contributing factors to the development of Complex PTSD as it relates to client case conceptualization.
Investigate how Complex PTSD impacts the cognitive, emotional, and physical health of the client.
Determine how to assess clients for Complex PTSD symptoms within other diagnoses, including personality disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and dissociative disorders.
Incorporate into clinical treatment practical mind-body therapy tools to help clients feel resourced and prepared for trauma processing.
Articulate the six stages of trauma responses within the neurobiology of Complex PTSD as it relates to clinical treatment.
Utilize assessment tools to properly assess for Complex PTSD to better inform treatment planning.
Breakdown how mutual regulation within the therapeutic relationship teaches clients self-regulation strategies that help them develop new interpersonal strengths that help with the treatment process.
Integrate interventions for the treatment of Complex PTSD drawn from CBT, DBT, EMDR Therapy, Parts Work Therapy, Somatic Psychology, and mind-body therapies.
Analyze how working within the “Window of Tolerance” can help reduce the likelihood of re-traumatization.
Assess how “top-down” and “bottom-up” interventions can speed up or slow down the pacing of trauma treatment.
Employ the 6 Pillars of Resilience as a strength-based approach that fosters growth and integration of a positive sense of self-identity in clients.
Determine resilience and protective factors to aid against the development of PTSD.

Copyright : 23/10/2018

Module 5 | Attachment, Psychodynamic, IFS & Parts Work Interventions

Copyright : 23/10/2018

Module 1 | Understanding C-PTSD Development

For years I got stuck with my complex trauma clients.

The traditional standalone approaches everyone recommended seemed to fail me as my clients’ unresolved conflicts kept sabotaging our efforts toward healing. Session after session I was met with defensiveness and resistance. It was exhausting…and soon doubt and frustration started to creep in.

But one day the solution became clear -- complex trauma requires complex treatment -- not a standalone therapy.

Now in this one-day seminar I’ll show you how you can more successfully access deeply rooted pain points and move clients past the internal conflicts that hang them up in treatment by integrating elements of EMDR with skills from a parts work approach!

Watch me for this unique, advanced level trauma treatment course, so you can:

More safely gather your client’s trauma history
Manage dissociation and fragmentation in clients using skills from parts work therapy
Create a safe healing environment using modified EMDR therapy protocols
Confidently use relational skills and somatic therapy for improved complex trauma treatment

Making the change to an integrated EMDR and parts work approach turned my treatment completely around. Since that day I’ve found tremendous success with my clients, authored several books on complex trauma and trained thousands of clinicians.

Don’t miss this chance to take your complex trauma treatment to the next level!

Purchase today!

-Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II

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Objectives

Analyze the neurobiology of complex PTSD and dissociation through the lens of polyvagal theory.
Apply interpersonal neurobiology through co-regulation strategies that strengthen our client’s social engagement system.
Assess for emotional and physiological dysregulation as “parts” of self.
Integrate practical parts work therapy interventions to improve treatment outcomes for “resistant” clients.
Utilize techniques to help clients to work with shame and develop self compassion for their most wounded parts.
Conduct modified EMDR therapy protocols that will allow you to create a safe healing environment for clients with a history of complex traumatization.

Copyright : 30/09/2021

Module 2 | Case Conceptualizations, Clinical Interviews, and Therapeutic Interventions

Copyright : 30/09/2021

Module 3 | Integrative EMDR

Copyright : 30/09/2021

Healing with CPT

How exactly do people get stuck in traumatic events and PTSD, and how can they recover? Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a rapidly growing model that is showing promising results and has uncovered key cognitive processes that, when addressed, can create lasting healing from PTSD, often without the need to go back and even talk extensively about the traumatic event.

Join co-developer of CPT, Kathleen Chard, PhD, for a fascinating recording that will address many common myths around PTSD recovery and what research has shown helps. Learn the key processes behind this approach to trauma treatment that is endorsed by the U.S. Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense, the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, and the U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as a best practice for the treatment of PTSD.

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Objectives

Analyze the empirical evidence supporting the use of Cognitive Processing Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and related conditions.
Determine common myths around PTSD that can interfere in treatment and worsen outcomes.
Utilize 3 keys from CPT that help clients understand how to overcome “stuck points”.

Pharmacology of Trauma & Dissociation

Let’s face it – treating trauma is hard work and it’s not always clear what needs to be done. Dysregulated nervous systems, co-morbidities, and a myriad of psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological options often make it difficult to reach the desired goals for your clients.

Even though you may not be a prescriber of medications, it’s essential that you have a thorough understanding of the effects medication has in treating trauma.

Watch world renowned trauma expert Frank Guastella Anderson, MD, in this recording as he guides you through the essentials of Psychopharmacology related to the treatment of Trauma and Dissociation.

Dr. Anderson will teach you how to:

Integrate psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic approaches
Identify positive and negative effects of medication
Prepare clients for adding medication to their treatments
Understand the effects of trauma on neurobiological processes
Assess clients for appropriate medication referrals

Improve your outcomes through the understanding and application of the interplay between medications, psychotherapy and trauma.

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Objectives

Integrate psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic approaches in the treatment of trauma and dissociation.
Determine the positive and potentially negative effects of psychoactive medication interventions related to trauma treatment.
Prepare clients effectively for the implementation of psychopharmacological adjuncts to psychotherapy.
Analyze the neurobiological effects of trauma to the dysregulation of neurotransmitters and the use of mitigating medications.
Assess therapeutic indications for appropriate medication referrals.

Advances in Treating Dissociation

ln this course, Kathy Steele identifies what dissociation is, the challenges one faces when working with dissociation regarding the dance between attachment and defence; and the role of the therapeutic relationship as a stabilizing factor. Attachment strategies, the basic principles in working with parts, and a systematic approach to working with parts will also be discussed and evaluated.

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Objectives

Differentiate between dissociative parts and ego states.
Analyze attachment strategies, investigate the principles of working with parts, and justify the use of a systemic treatment approach for improved clinical outcomes.
Evaluate the role of trauma-related phobias and other factors that contribute to maintaining dissociation.