Learning Objectives: Navigating AEDP Experiential-Attachment Work in the Context of Trauma and Dissociation
- Apply AEDP key elements to foster the healing of trauma, and the integration of dissociative parts.
- Describe signs and symptoms of Dissociative Identity Disorder.
- Apply AEDP interventions to work with complex trauma and dissociative disorders.
- Demonstrate competency in working with the intra-relational triangle to craft relational clinical interventions.
- Identify and mitigate risks in applying AEDP to complex trauma and dissociative disorders.
- Demonstrate explicit use of relational interventions with different parts of the self of the patient.
- List three intra-relational interventions for building secure internal attachment.
- Utilize AEDP relational interventions to develop connection that instills safety and containment and forges secure attachment with patients who have never been securely attached to anyone.
- Describe two relational grounding interventions to implement with patients who have tendency to experience traumatic flashbacks during emotional processing.
- Recite a rationale for emotional processing to present to traumatized patients who view emotions as dangerous.
