Participants will be able to:
- Describe and apply the AEDP compassionate, affirmative and healing-oriented stance and spirit with dissociation.
- Describe, explain and apply evidence-based AEDP Essential Skills for co-constructing safety and reducing incidences of dissociation.
- Describe and apply five (5) experiential methods to working with dissociation.
- Describe and apply nine (9) allied interventions to working with dissociation that complement experiential methods.
- Describe, explain and apply the P.A.I.R.R. model of therapeutic presence (developed by AEDP Senior Faculty member Benjamin Lipton, LCSW)
- Define, identify and describe the types of and compare and contrast the differences between classical and modern perspectives on dissociation.
- Describe the basic neurological underpinnings of dissociation.
- Identify, describe and evaluate complex trauma (C-PTSD) and apply this information to the diagnostic process in the course of psychotherapy.
- Identify and describe the antecedents to the development of dissociation in the context of complex trauma.
- Identify and describe common triggers to dissociation during the process of psychotherapy.
- Describe the experience of complex trauma and dissociation within communities impacted by systemic and/or race-based trauma.
- Describe and practice self-care rituals to prevent therapist burnout while working with recalcitrant defenses like dissociation.