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Treating dissociative disorders with EMDR: the progressive approach. Level 1

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thu. 17 Oct.

08h30-17h00

fri. 18 Oct.

08h30-17h00

After many initial caveats about the dangers of using EMDR with individuals with dissociative disorders, a few proposals have been made for adapting EMDR procedures to this particular population. Given these earlier caveats, EMDR is still seen by many clinicians as offering interventions that are limited to processing traumatic memories in high-functioning dissociative patients and only after a prolonged preparation phase involving use of other therapeutic modalities. In such a conceptualization, the use of EMDR is severely limited, and many survivors of severe trauma are seen as not being able to benefit from EMDR, or if they can, it would only be at a good stage. more advanced in the therapeutic course.

In this training, examples of clinical cases and excerpts from videos will be used to illustrate EMDR interventions for dissociative patients based on the “stepped approach” (Gonzalez & Mosquera, 2012). With this model, this seminar will show how EMDR clinicians can safely use a range of EMDR interventions with dissociative patients, right from the preparation phase. The purpose of this seminar is to provide a comprehensive model for the application of EMDR therapy in the treatment of dissociative disorders, expanding the TAI model to address the kinds of dysfunctionally stored information found in people who have suffered the worst forms of trauma and exhibiting dissociative phobias. EMDR therapists will learn to integrate new interventions into their clinical work during the different phases of treatment. In particular, they will learn to implement specific clinical interventions based on “progressive protocols” for severely traumatized patients, including dissociative identity disorder and somatoform dissociation.

Goals

Identifying and understanding the symptoms of people with complex trauma and past neglect: Participants will view videos and reflect on clinical vignettes to identify obvious, but also subtle monkeys of complex trauma.

Deepen your understanding of the effects of complex trauma and neglect from the EMDR perspective and the TAI model. An extended TAI model will be proposed to address the nature of dysfunctionally stored information in people with structural dissociation.

Learn to recognize and how to respond to the specific clinical challenges of the different phases of EMDR therapy for highly dissociative patients.

Learn to identify visible and hidden dissociative symptoms, and how to take them into account in the conceptualization of the case. The principles of case conceptualization and strategies for developing a comprehensive treatment plan will be explained, as well as their basis in relation to dissociative structures and associated phobias. Clinical examples will be shown on video.

Learn to identify and understand dissociative phobias from the Theory of Structural Dissociation of Personality (TDSP, Van der Hart, Nijenhuis & Steele, 2006) and their relevance for the EMDR process.

Learn how to apply the dissociative phobias framework in a way that helps them plan a step-by-step approach to traumatic content and dissociative phobias. Explore clinical vignettes and video demonstrations to illustrate procedures for identifying and overcoming these phobias.

Acquire a set of modified EMDR procedures to work safely in EMDR with dissociative patients. Examine and develop new skills in specific EMDR procedures through clinical vignettes and videos.

Good to know

Training intended for psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists who have been trained at level 2 in EMDR and who have followed level 1 of the training in dissociation

The training will be given in English with simultaneous translation into French

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