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The Challenge of Treating Complex PTSD: What to do When Things Get Messy and Uncomfortable
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When working with trauma cases do you often see clients go into flight, fight, and/or freeze? Do they yell at you, insult you, or leave the session? Are there times you find yourself angry at your clients or just downright don’t like them? Do you recognize your own flight, fight, and/or freeze response? Welcome to the messy, often confusing world of trauma treatment. In this workshop, you’ll explore practical in-session techniques as well as a framework to help you recognize what’s happening when things heat up and get intense.
- Focus on how to assess the client’s motivation, stage of change, and preferred mode of learning and how to build a therapeutic collaboration around it
- Explore the importance of therapist transparency and how to empower clients by making the therapy process as safe and explicit as possible
- Learn how to explore intra-family violence or include additional family members in your sessions
Objectives
- Describe how to assess the client’s motivation, stage of change, and preferred mode of learning and how to build a therapeutic collaboration around it
- Summarize the importance of therapist transparency
- Explain how to empower clients by making the therapy process as safe and explicit as possible
- Explore intra-family violence or include additional family members in your sessions
Outline
Introduction and overview of collaborative change model for trauma treatment
- Introduction to collaborative change as a "meta-model" to other trauma therapies
- Discussion how collaborative change model can help therapists overcome being stuck
Experiencing collaborative change therapy with trauma
- In-depth study of the concept of ethical attunement
- Workshop between participants to discuss techniques
- Clinical feedback examples to support collaborative change model of therapy
- Review of collaboration change model and lesson on techniques how to apply it to other models of therapy
Concluding remarks and question and answer session
- Presenters answer specific questions about trauma model
- Final consolidation exercise to use with clients
Mary Jo Barrett, MSW, Director, Center for Contextual Change
Mary Jo Barrett, MSW, the founder and director of the Center for Contextual Change, teaches at the University of Chicago. She’s the coauthor of Systemic Treatment of Incest and coeditor of Treating Incest: A Multimodal Systems Perspective.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Mary Jo Barrett is the founder and director of the Center for Contextual Change. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Mary Jo Barrett has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
Linda Stone Fish, MSW, PhD
Linda Stone Fish, MSW, PhD, the David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at Syracuse University, is the author of Nurturing Queer Youth.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Linda Stone Fish is in private practice. She is a David B. Falk Endowed Professor at Syracuse University.
Non-financial: Linda Stone Fish is a member of the American Family Therapy Association.
