Greetings, dear colleagues!
Recently, Suzette Boone, one of the leading experts in Europe in the field of diagnosis and therapy of disorders caused by trauma, conducted a detailed training on the diagnosis of dissociative disorders at the Tree of Knowledge Center.
You can find out how it was held at the link
And after the diagnosis, therapy begins, and I invite you to take part in a practical course with Suzette Boone
“Treating Complex trauma-related disorders (CPTSD and dissociative disorders) Stabilization and challenges in the therapeutic Relationship “
he course will be held on the following dates:
Feb. 4,
March 4,
April 8,
May 6,
June 3
July 1
Please note!
February 4 we work from 16.00 to 19.00
on other days
from 17.00 to 20.00 Kyiv time
Organizational Details
Video: For members only Access for a year
ATTENTION.
Regarding the videos of clinical cases that Suzette Boone always uses to illustrate the material, we will leave them on the recording for a limited period of time.
Participant certificates: Participants will receive personalized certificates in English with the number of academic hours “18” from the Center of Educational Projects “Tree of Knowledge” Karine Kocharyan
Language: English with consecutive translation into Ukrainian.
Translation: Iryna Nastalovska.
Cost: 275 euros in UAH at the exchange rate on the day of payment
Payment can be made in two parts
After registration, please wait for an email from us before making a payment!
Is it possible to participate in a single day? – Since this is a course, not a series of separate webinars, partial participation is not possible.
Phase-oriented treatment, the accepted standard of care for dissociative disorders, stresses the need for careful pacing and regulation of arousal, because dissociative patients often have many debilitating symptoms, are especially prone to regulatory difficulties, and lack essential life skills. And most of all it can be a great challenge to develop a working alliance with a patient as most of them lack basic trust in other people.
Therapists often have many questions about this first phase:
How do I engage a patient who desperately demands help, but also views me with distrust and fear?
My patient has so many different problems and symptoms: How do I prioritize and begin treatment?
How do I manage the therapeutic relationship?
How do I work with different kinds of dissociative parts, such as extremely dependent, avoidant, angry, or persecutory ones?
How do I keep the focus on the whole person in a complicated therapy in which I must work with parts? What are the major pitfalls in phase 1?
These and many other questions may arise in the first phase. The work that has to be done is not just teaching a ‘toolbox with techniques’. Techniques are helpful but more important is developing a working alliance with all parts of the patient including aggressive or hostile parts.
Many of these difficulties and symptoms can be understood as stemming from a series of trauma-related phobias that maintain dissociation and hinder adaptive functioning in the present. I will begin with an introduction about case formulation and move to essential treatment principles that organize therapeutic goals and interventions, regardless of the therapist’s theoretical orientation. Didactic presentations, case vignettes and video clips will be included.
Learning objectives:
Participants will be able to :
Understand how various phobias maintain the dissociation of the personality and knowing how to help a patient to overcome them
Know how to utilize the collaborative therapeutic relationship in helping the patient/client to recognize, accept, and collaborate with parts.
Understand the importance of a healthy treatment frame with clear boundaries.
Be able to use techniques to help the patient regulate emotions and deal with severe PTSD and dissociative symptoms.
Develop a systemic approach in working with these parts, including child parts (also pre-verbal parts), hostile and perpetrator-imitating parts, perpetrator-idealizing parts
Use therapeutic approaches that call upon the patient’s/client’s imaginative capacity.
This training is for mental health professionals: psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, and other health practitioners who have experience of working with early adversity and trauma.
PRESENTER
Сюзетт Бун Ph.D| Suzette Boon Ph.D
Suzette A. Boon PhD, 1949, is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. She has more than thirty years of experience working in mental health institutions. She is a trainer and supervisor for the Dutch Society for Family Therapy and the Dutch Society for Hypnosis. Since the late eighties, she has specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of complex dissociative disorders. She has worked as a researcher at the Free University of Amsterdam (Psychiatric Department). She translated and validated the Dutch version of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders (SCID-D) and received a PhD for her thesis Multiple Personality Disorder in the Netherlands in 1993. She has published several books, book chapters and many articles on both the diagnosis and treatment of dissociative disorders.Suzette Boon is working in a private practice, mainly as a trainer and supervisor. She has been giving workshops all over Europe and the USA on topics related to complex trauma and dissociation.She has developed a skills training manual for patients with a complex dissociative disorder and currently has eight years of experience using this manual in structured groups in the Netherlands. In addition, she has been supervising projects in Norway and Finland using this manual. Its English version (with Kathy Steele, MN, CS and Onno van der Hart, PhD) was published in March 2011 by Norton publishers. Translations have been published in Finnish, Swedish, Dutch, German, Norwegian, French, Italian and Spanish.She is currently doing research with a new diagnostic interview to assess chronic trauma-related disorders, in particular the dissociative disorders – the Trauma and Dissociation Symptoms Interview (TADS-I). This new instrument that follows an earlier version (IDDTS, 2006) has been introduced in several European countries. For further information please contact Suzette.Suzette Boon is co-founder of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (ESTD) and was the first president of this Society.The International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD) granted her the David Caul Memorial Award in 1993, the Morton Prince Award in 1994 and the President’s Award of Distinction and the status of Fellow in 1995 for her contributions to the diagnosis, treatment, research and education in the field of dissociative disorders. In 2009, she received the Life Time Achievement Award, and in 2011 the Pierre Janet writing Award for the book Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation a Skills Training for Patients and their Therapists.
