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An Integrative Approach to Overcoming ‘Stuckness’ With Complex Trauma Clients


Average Rating:
   14
Speaker:
Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Duration:
3 Hours 15 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Feb 17, 2023
Product Code:
PDR031473
Media Type:
Digital Recording
Access:
Never expires.


Description

Almost all therapists experience stuckness in working with clients with complex trauma. This course will teach therapists how to approach stuckness to intolerance of positive emotions and shame. Dr Ruth Lanius will share how to revive your treatment with case examples when progress has stalled. You will learn how to draw from a wide range of techniques and modalities for a truly integrated approach to complex trauma.

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This online program is worth 3.25 hours CPD.



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Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Professor of Psychiatry is the director of the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research unit at the University of Western Ontario. She established the Traumatic Stress Service and the Traumatic Stress Service Workplace Program, services that specialize in the treatment and research of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and related comorbid disorders. She currently holds the Harris-Woodman Chair in Mind-Body Medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario.

Her research interests focus on studying the neurobiology of PTSD and treatment outcome research examining various pharmacological and psychotherapeutic methods. She has authored more than 100 published papers and chapters in the field of traumatic stress and is currently funded by several federal funding agencies. She regularly lectures on the topic of PTSD nationally and internationally She has recently published a book The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease with Eric Vermetten and Clare Pain.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Ruth Lanius has employment relationships with Western University of Canada, McMaster University, St. Joseph's Health Care, University of Western Ontario, Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research, London Health Sciences Centre, Robarts Research Institute, and the Lawson Health Research Institute. She receives grants from the National Defence (Canada), the Academica Medical Organization of Southwestern Ontario, the Trauma Research Foundation, and the Canadian Institute of Health Research. Dr. Lanius receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Ruth Lanius is a fellow with the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, a member of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. She is a journal reviewer for several publications, to see a complete list contact PESI, Inc.


Objectives

  1. Develop a strategic plan to increase the capacity to tolerate positive emotions in clients with complex trauma.
  2. Respond to trauma flashbacks in clients with skill of positive emotion dosing. 
  3. Demonstrate ways to approach clients who dissociate when going near the body in trauma therapy. 
  4. Argue the purpose and construct a response for the inner critic that emerges in clients who have experienced complex trauma.

Outline

Stuckness in complex trauma therapy

  • How stuckness shows up in people’s responses
    • Negative scripts
    • Positive scripts
  • Strategies to meet therapy goal in treating complex trauma
  • Case examples
  • Shame
    • Signs of shame
    • Ways to overcome shame
    • Being aware of triggers
  • Getting stuck with trauma processing
    • Window of tolerance
    • Emotional numbness
  • Deep Brain Reorienting 
    • Emerging research findings
    • Clinical experience
  • Question/ answer
  • Role play
  • Demonstration 
  • Risks and limitations of research and future/ further research

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Physicians
  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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Total Reviews: 14

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