How to Assess for Dissociative Disorders and Conceptualize Treatment Planning in Complex Cases

This workshop qualifies for 6 CE Hours. ***See details below.

Presenter: Kathy Steele

Live Online:

8 am - 3:30 pm Pacific Time Canada/USA

9 am - 4:30 pm Mountain Time Canada/USA

11 am - 6:30 pm Eastern Time Canada/USA

4 pm - 11:30 pm London, UK

5 pm - 12:30 am Madrid, Spain

5 pm - 12:30 am Berlin, Germany

Course Content Level - Intermediate

Target Audience: Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social workers, MFTs, Counselors

Can't Attend Live? No worries, you now have 60 days to watch the video recording!

Workshop Description:

This workshop will offer an overview of clinical assessment strategies for dissociation and dissociative disorders. We will examine the different symptoms that are labeled dissociative and what questions to ask to explore with the client their dissociative experiences. In addition, specific strategies for assessing dissociative disorders will be offered. Measurement instruments will be briefly discussed, but the focus will be on clinical interview skills.

In the second half of the workshop we will discuss how to conceptualize a case, providing the therapist a meta-view of how the dissociative client is organized, and opening a path toward a rational, coherent treatment plan. We will explore how to assess specific prognostic factors and set collaborative and reasonable therapeutic goals. Participants will learn how to focus on process-oriented approaches that are directed toward addressing and changing the client’s defensive and dissociative organization.

Learning Objectives:

• List differences between dissociative amnesia and failures to encode: distinguishing between different types of memory problems
• Describe Schneiderian symptoms indicating lack of voluntary control, including hearing voices
• Name at least 5 questions to ask for assessing dissociative disorders
• List at least 5 indicators of prognosis and treatment trajectory that impact treatment planning
• Describe how we clients organize their experiences internally
• Create a treatment plan for a client with a dissociative disorder, based on clinical assessment of dissociation, defenses, resistance and other prognostic factors.

Agenda (Mountain Time)

9 am – 10:30 Different types of dissociation and their treatment implications

Assessing trauma

Caveats about taking a trauma history

What else do we need to know?

Assessing amnesia

Amnesia for the past versus amnesia for the present

Infantile amnesia and difficulties with memory before age 7

Questions to ask about current time loss

Differentiating amnesia from other forms of “forgetting”

Differences between amnesia and failure to encode

10:30 am – 10:45 BREAK

10:45 am – 12:15 Assessing for symptoms of PTSD

Assessing Schneiderian symptoms, including full and partial intrusions of parts

Distinguishing psychotic and dissociative voices

Assessing for somatoform dissociation

Assessing indirect symptoms (e.g., sleep problems, drug use, eating problems, suicidality) for the presence of dissociation

12:15 pm – 1:15 BREAK /LUNCH

1:15 pm – 2:45 Q&A

Case Conceptualization

Understanding the inner organization of clients

Prognostic indicators and treatment trajectories

Setting treatment goals and staying on task

2:45 pm – 4:15 Case Conceptualization, continued

Identifying defenses and resistances

Systemic approaches to working with dissociative disorders

4:15 pm - 4:30 Q&A

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

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EMDRIA - 6 CEs

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