THE CHALLENGES OF WORKING WITH COMPLEX TRAUMA
A one-day seminar led by Alexandra Richman
A one-day seminar led by Alexandra Richman
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PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2012
09.30 Registration and coffee
10.00
Diagnostic issues in identifying traumatic experiences that are routed in childhood and differentiating these from traumas experienced by adults
Psychological "trauma" has many definitions. Like adults who experience trauma, children and adolescents who have been abused cope by using a variety of psychological mechanisms. One of the most effective ways people cope with overwhelming trauma is called "Dissociation". Dissociation is a complex mental process during which there is a change in a person's consciousness which disturbs the normally connected functions of identity, memory, thoughts, feelings and experiences.
Diagnostic issues in identifying traumatic experiences that are routed in childhood and differentiating these from traumas experienced by adults
Psychological "trauma" has many definitions. Like adults who experience trauma, children and adolescents who have been abused cope by using a variety of psychological mechanisms. One of the most effective ways people cope with overwhelming trauma is called "Dissociation". Dissociation is a complex mental process during which there is a change in a person's consciousness which disturbs the normally connected functions of identity, memory, thoughts, feelings and experiences.
11.15 Coffee
11.45
The nature of traumatic memory and dissociative phenomena in planning treatment
For over 100 years clinicians have observed and described the unusual nature of traumatic memories. It has been consistently observed that these memories are characterised by fragmentary and intense sensations and affect, often with little or no verbal narrative content. There are several factors that influence whether a traumatic experience is remembered or dissociated. The nature and frequency of the traumatic events and the age of the victim seem to be the most important.
The nature of traumatic memory and dissociative phenomena in planning treatment
For over 100 years clinicians have observed and described the unusual nature of traumatic memories. It has been consistently observed that these memories are characterised by fragmentary and intense sensations and affect, often with little or no verbal narrative content. There are several factors that influence whether a traumatic experience is remembered or dissociated. The nature and frequency of the traumatic events and the age of the victim seem to be the most important.
13.00 Lunch
14.00
Phase-oriented treatment for complex trauma
People with complex trauma and dissociative disorders have different prototypical dissociative parts of personality. One part may be engaged in daily living while trying to avoid traumatic memories. Other parts are fixated in these memories with highly affectively charged re-enactments of traumatic experiences. In phased treatment the initial stabilisation phase involves strengthening the dissociative parts involved in daily living. The second phase involves overcoming the phobia of traumatic memories and their integration and the third phase continues this work seeking to enable the person's capacity to integrate enactments of trauma and transform these into narrative, autobiographical memory.
Phase-oriented treatment for complex trauma
People with complex trauma and dissociative disorders have different prototypical dissociative parts of personality. One part may be engaged in daily living while trying to avoid traumatic memories. Other parts are fixated in these memories with highly affectively charged re-enactments of traumatic experiences. In phased treatment the initial stabilisation phase involves strengthening the dissociative parts involved in daily living. The second phase involves overcoming the phobia of traumatic memories and their integration and the third phase continues this work seeking to enable the person's capacity to integrate enactments of trauma and transform these into narrative, autobiographical memory.
16.00 End
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