Full Course Description
Janina Fisher’s Integrative Approach to Treating Trauma
Program Information
Outline
Module 1: Janina Fisher’s Integrative Approach to Treating Trauma: Blending IFS, Sensorimotor, Mindfulness, Psychoeducation, and More.
- Introductory comments
- Brief modern history of treatment for PTSD
- An integrative approach toward treating trauma
- The legacy of trauma and how it's healed
- Structural Dissociation model in trauma treatment
- The adaptive value of symptoms
Module 2: How Trauma Is Stored in the Body and What to Do
- Introductory comments
- Clinical video demonstrations
- The nature of traumatic memory as implicit and somatic
- Internal Family Systems un-blending interventions
- Psychoeducation interventions around somatic memory through validation and normalization
Module 3: Be-Friending Suicide Through Doing Parts Work:
- Introductory comments
- Working with co-occuring trauma and addiction
- Working with co-occuring trauma and suicidality
- Understanding the five primary "parts" in the structural dissociation model
- Re-framing suicidal ideation in trauma survivors as an early coping skill
- Using un-blending from Internal Family Systems to work with traumatic symptoms
Module 4: Helping Clients Safely Let Down Their Armor and Heal from the Legacy of Trauma
- Introductory comments
- How to link current traumatic symptoms to childhood trauma
- Understanding working with traumatic triggers
- Somatic memory in trauma survivors
- Working with regressive states and "child parts"
- A new definition of "self love"
Module 5: Working with a Traumatized Couple
- Introductory comments
- Treatment challenges when working with trauma within an intimate relationship
- How trauma can sabotage an intimate relationship
- Working with a couple who have previous individual trauma histories and trauma within the relationship
- Understanding and re-framing a couple's conflicts
- Being able to self-soothe in intimate relationships
Objectives
- Determine three ways traumatic memory presents in a client with PTSD
- Incorporate sensorimotor interventions into treatments to decrease symptoms of PTSD in clients.
- Incorporate Internal Family Systems interventions into treatments to decrease symptoms of PTSD in clients.
- Apply psychoeducational principles to decrease symptoms of PTSD in clients
- Defend ‘implicit memory’ and breakdown its role in post-traumatic stress disorders
- Differentiate characteristics of fight, flight, freeze, attach and submit parts
- Articulate the role of suicidal ideation as an adaptation to traumatic events
- Apply Sensorimotor and Internal Family Systems interventions for trauma survivors
Target Audience
- Psychologist
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Behavioral Professionals
Copyright :
08/27/2019
BONUS: Chronic Suicidality and Self-Destructive Behavior
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Outline
The Challenges of Working with Suicidality and Self-Destructive Behavior
- Association between suicidality/self-harm and a history of trauma
- Suicidality as a survival strategy
- The neurobiology of suicidality and self-harm
Evaluating Risk: Safe, Less Safe, and Not Safe
- Ideation versus impulse
- Relief versus punishment
- Simple tools for risk assessment
Suicidality and Self-Destructive Behavior as Dissociative Symptoms
- Using the Structural Dissociation model
- Borderline personality and dissociative symptom
- Increasing safety by working with suicidality as a part of the personality
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Behavioral Health Professionals
Objectives
- Determine the somatic effects of suicidal ideation and impulses for the purposes of psychoeducation.
- Evaluate the role of suicidality in a client’s survival or adaptation to trauma.
- Determine the three basic steps of the Fisher risk assessment tool.
- Distinguish body-centered interventions that can increase the client’s sense of control over unbearable emotions.
- Develop collaborative solutions to high-risk situations.
Copyright :
03/23/2019
BONUS: Creating Safety with High-Conflict Couples - A Nonverbal Approach
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine the clinical implications of disorganized attachment in couples therapy.
- Articulate Sensorimotor methods that can be interfaced with psychotherapy practices to alleviate the volatility in couples.
Outline
What creates a ‘volatile’ couple?
- Early attachment, trauma, and later relationships
- Animal defense survival responses are activated by perceived threat
- Inhibition of the prefrontal cortex deprives them of access to perspective
Reducing volatility by helping couples communicate without words
- Tracking their bodily reactions to the other
- Increasing awareness of the role of triggering
- Regulating the nervous system and bodily tension
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
- Using gesture and movement to practice new alternatives to conflict and reactivity
Target Audience
Psychologists, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Behavioral Health Professionals
Copyright :
03/24/2018