The Challenge of Treating Complex PTSD: What to do When Things Get Messy and Uncomfortable

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

1. 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
2. Summarize the importance of therapist transparency
3. Explain how to empower clients by making the therapy process as safe and explicit as possible
4. 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

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