Full Course Description

Shame and the Disowned Self: Overcoming Internal Attachment Disorder

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Outline

The Natural Cycle of Attachment Formation
1. Attunement, Dysregulation, Repair
2. Effect of Neglect and Abuse on Attachment Formation
3. Attachment & Brain Development
4. Attachment Styles
Trauma & Alienation from One’s Self
1. Early Body & Emotional Experience
2. Manifestations of Self-Alienatio
Brain Research
1. Remembering Somatically
2. Right vs. Left Brain Hemispheres
3. Structural Dissociation Model
4. Split-Brain Research
5. Case Study
6. Question & Answer Period
Understanding “Parts”
1. Internal Community
2. Alienated Parts Experienced as Feelings
3. Repairing Internal Attachments
  1. Integration of Structural Dissociation and Internal Family Systems (IFS)
  2. The Language of Parts
  3. Blending vs. Unblending
Establishing a Relationship between the Adult Self & Parts
1. From Alienation to Attachment
2. Repair & Internal Attachment
  1. Video Demonstration
3. Increasing Capacity for Social Engagement
4. Social Engagement System of the Therapist

Objectives

Explore how to help clients develop curiosity toward their child selves rather than overidentifying with parts that hate vulnerability
Explore how to access clients’ inherent empathy and compassion for others
Explore how to become an “attachment broker,” using visualization and somatic techniques to bring a mindful adult and wounded child together
Explore how to help clients understand the role of early attachment wounds in their presenting issues

Copyright : 24/03/2017

The Attachment Dance with Traumatized Clients

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Objectives

Determine how to handle the impact of disorganized attachment and traumatic transference on the client-therapist relationship
Explore how to recognize how your own attachment experiences can evoke counter-transreferential responses that can influence therapy
Ascertain how to integrate strategies that can strengthen attunement
Explore how to apply approaches that address testing behaviors and increase secure attachment

Outline

Types of Trauma and Abuse
- Physical & Emotional
- Inconsistent Roles & Expectations
Losses Associated with Trauma
- Boundaries
- Trust
- Innocence
- Emotional Expression
Relationship between Attachment and Trauma
- Desire for Connection
- Fear of Connection
Physiology & Attachment
- Positive and Negative Triggers
- Regulating Stress
Early Childhood Attachment Patterns
- Free/Autonomous
- Dismissing
- Ambivalent
- Disorganized
Frightened vs. Frightening Behaviors
- Withdrawn & Avoidant
- Reactive & Aggressive
Managing Emotional States
- Inter-regulation
- Auto-Regulation
Affect Dysregulation
- Hypoarousal
- Hyperarousal
Art Therapy Strategies
- Types of Art Expression
- Strategic Prompts
- Open vs. Closed Questions
Therapist countertransference responses
- Empathy and compassion
- Secure attachment
De-pathologizing Trauma
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Complex Trauma
Attachment Dance
- Stepping In
- Stepping Out
- Normalizing
Trauma-Informed Therapy
- Optimum Window of Arousal
- Assessment
- Prioritizing
Traumatic Transference
- Fear of Abandonment
- Sabotaging the Relationship
- Not asking for help
- Ambivalence
Manifestations of Counter-transference
- Empathetic Disequilibrium
- Empathetic Withdrawal
- Empathetic Enmeshment
- Empathetic Repression

Copyright : 24/03/2017

When Unresolved Attachment Trauma Is the Problem: Working with Avoidant and Disorganized Clients

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Outline

1.Therapeutic Presence

a.Advantages

b.Disadvantages

2.The Role of family in Attachment Style Development

3.Styles of Attachment

a.Secure

b.Avoidant

c.Ambivalent

d.Disorganized

4.Defining Secure Attachment

a.Tone of Voice

b.Safety

c.Protection

d.Humor

e.Relaxation

f.Self-Regulation

5.Secure Attachment Strategies

a.Repairing Mis-attunements

b.Repair Rituals

c.Secure Priming

d.Synaptic Sculpting

e.Kind Eyes Exercise

f.Affect Modulation

g.Regulating the Nervous System

h.Reversing the Freeze Response

i.Somatic Strategies (D.A.R.e.)

6.Neuroscience & Neuroplasticity

a.The science of what helps us connect

b.The Fluidity of Memory

c.Impact of Abuse on the brain

7.Being sensitive to client cues

a.Nonverbal cues

b.Relational cues

c.Somatic cues

8.Sadistic Abuse

9.Trauma Resolution

10.Video Vignettes of Complex Trauma Treatment

Objectives

Focus on how to identify three different styles of troubled attachment with special emphasis on the avoidant and disorganized styles
Focus on how to recognize why some clients begin to dissociate once they’ve formed a positive attachment with the therapist and why empathy can backfire
Focus on how to enhance your skills for creating a safe haven and secure attachment bond by becoming more sensitive to clients’ nonverbal, relational, and somatic cues
Focus on how to increase your capacity for intersubjectivity and incorporating well-timed humor and playfulness in your style

BONUS: Trauma Therapy in Perspective: Lessons from the Past 25 Years featuring Janina Fisher

Objectives

Explore how to integrate EMDR therapy into an existing framework for trauma treatment.

Outline

The limitations of exposure therapy and alternative strategies for bolstering cognitive, emotional, physical, and behavioral resilience
The contribution that brain science, somatic therapy, mindfulness, and the practice of “dual awareness” can make to trauma recovery
Practical methods for heightening right-brain-to-right-brain communication in therapy

BONUS: Promoting Post-Traumatic Growth: From Devastation to Hope featuring Lisa Ferentz

Objective

Assess the concept of Post-Traumatic Growth and how it differs from simple recovery from trauma.

Outline

Help clients tap into their deepest inner wisdom by reinforcing personal strengths and tapping into remembered resources
Integrate writing exercises, drawing, role-plays, guided imagery, and the creative arts to enrich the therapy experience
Guide clients through the key transition points in the process of post-traumatic growth