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.