Advanced Stabilization Skills for Complex Dissociative Disorder: Selected Issues

Presenter: Kathy Steele

Target Audience: Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors

Course Content Level: Advanced

Continuing Education Credit Info:

*Certificates with CE credits are provided at no extra cost!

EMDRIA - 4 CE credits

American Psychological Association - 4 CE credits

Envision is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

For more information, see the CE section at the bottom of the page

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Time Zones:

9 AM - 1:15 PM - Mountain Time USA

11 AM - 3:15 PM - Eastern Time USA

4 PM to 8:15 PM - London UK GMT

5 PM to 9:15 PM - Madrid, Spain CET

5 PM to 9:15 PM - Berlin, Germany CET

5 PM - 9:15 PM - Copenhagen, Denmark

6 PM - 10:15 PM - Helsinki, Finland

Can't Attend Live? Your registration gives you 60 days access to the recording!

Workshop Description:

During this workshop, we will explore several advanced topics for helping clients with complex dissociative disorders learn to stabilize. The focus of the workshop is on skills to empower clients to act on their own behalf more than on the specific interventions by the therapist. Topics include helping clients learn to challenge their belief systems and shift to more adaptive ones; to approach emotions that are highly avoided, including anger, fear, shame and guilt; to compassionately decrease self-harm and suicidality; and to learn more adaptive decision-making strategies based on listening to and balancing the needs and wishes of the whole person. Rigid core beliefs that are not amenable to quick or easy change will be addressed with step wise approaches to help clients consider change.

Clients are often highly phobic of at least some emotions, which are often made worse by maladaptive beliefs, and they use dissociation to cope with dysregulation. This central issue will be addressed through examining more adaptive ways to handle intense and highly conflicted emotions. Self-harm and suicidality are strongly related to maladaptive beliefs and emotion dysregulation and may be persistent in some dissociative clients. We will explore how to use systemic interventions to decrease and stop these sources of suffering. Throughout the workshop we will discuss exercises and strategies clients can use to challenge their phobic avoidance.

Learning Objectives

Employ at least five approaches to help dissociative clients decrease conflict among dissociative parts as a means of stabilization.

Discuss at least two ways to help clients understand how they make big and small decisions, and how they can include all dissociative parts in the process.

Utilize step wise approaches to the most intense emotions in dissociative clients.

Discuss the appropriate use of a skills manual for dissociative clients; under what conditions it may be helpful and when it may be destabilizing.

Agenda (Time in Mountain Time Zone)

9 am to 10 am:

Understanding dissociation

Dissociative parts of the personality

Introduction to advanced stabilization skills for complex dissociative disorder

10 am to 10:15 am

Approaches to help dissociative clients decrease conflict among dissociative parts as a means of stabilization

10:15 am to 10:30 am: Break

10:30 am to 11:30 am:

Step wise approaches to the most intense emotions in dissociative clients

11:30 am to 12pm:

Coping with dissociative problems related to triggers and traumatic memories

12 pm to 12:10 pm: Break

12:10 pm to 1 pm:

Resolving sleep problems related to dissociation

Coping with relational difficulties

1 pm to 1:15 pm: Question period

Your Presenter - Kathy Steele, MN, CS

Kathy Steele has been in private practice since 1985, and with Metropolitan Psychotherapy Associates in Atlanta, Georgia since 1988. She was Clinical Director of Metropolitan Counseling Services, a non- profit psychotherapy and training center until 2016.

She is a Past President and Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), and has also served two terms on the Board of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). Kathy served on the International Task Force that developed treatment guidelines for Dissociative Disorders, and on the Joint International Task Force that has developed treatment guidelines for Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. She has received a number of awards for her work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from ISSTD, an Emory University Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Cornelia B. Wilbur Award for Outstanding Clinical Contributions from ISSTD.

Kathy is known for her humor, compassion, respect, and depth of knowledge as a clinician and teacher, and for her capacity to present complex issues in easily understood and clear ways. She is sought as a consultant and supervisor, and as an international lecturer on topics related to trauma, dissociation, attachment, and psychotherapy. She enjoys collaborating with colleagues around the world on clinical, educational, and research projects. Kathy has (co)authored numerous book chapters, peer reviewed journal articles, and three books with her colleagues.

Continuing Education:

*Certificates with CE credits are provided at no extra cost!

Satisfactory Completion

Participants must have paid tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire webinar, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate. Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates will be available following the 4 hrs course completion.

EMDRIA - 4 CE credits

1) EMDRIA has reviewed and approved the content of this workshop for 4 EMDRIA CE credits

2) A separate EMDRIA only certificate will be awarded by Envision to those who qualify after course completion. This EMDRIA only certificate is for submission to EMDRIA. The other Continuing Education certificate is for submission to your licensing board at renewal.

3) *****EMDRIA CE credits may vary for those who will only watch the recording as time spent in the break out room will be deducted.

*If participants chose to only watch the recorded version rather than attending live, the number of EMDRIA CE credits will vary as time spent in practicum will be deducted*

***If participants watch the recording version of the presentation, they will have access to Self-Study CE credits after completion of a short quiz.

American Psychological Association (APA) - 4 CE credits

CE credits for Psychologists:

Envision is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Social Workers:

Alabama

The Alabama State Board of Social Work Examiners accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

California

The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Delaware

The Board of Social Work Examiners accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Florida

The Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy and Mental Health Counselling accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Illinois

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Kentucky

The Kentucky Board of Social Work accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Missouri

The Missouri State Committee for Social Workers accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Oregon

The Board of Licensed Social Workers accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Pennsylvania

The State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC)

Alabama

The Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Alaska

The State of Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing Board of Professional Counselors accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

California

The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Florida

The Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy and Mental Health Counselling accepts CE credits by APA approved sponsors. Envision is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Envision maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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