Trainings
Dissociative Identity Disorder Training
Understanding and Addressing the Complexities of Early Childhood Trauma
Instructor
Ian Robertson, MSW, RSW
Format
Online or In Person
Duration
2 Days
Training Overview
This training offers a comprehensive introduction to Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), a condition caused by severe early childhood trauma, often involving repeated episodes of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. Participants will explore the continuum of dissociation, from mild forms within normal human experience to severe cases that can debilitate individuals. This course delves into DID’s diagnostic criteria, etiology, treatment phases, and key therapeutic techniques, equipping professionals with practical tools for effective treatment.
Who Is It For?
This training is ideal for:
Therapists, social workers, and counselors
What Will You Learn?
1
Historical and Foundational Understanding
Review the history of DID: Prior to, during, and post Freud.
Understand the etiology of DID, including the four pathways to its development.
2
Assessment and Diagnosis
Learn techniques for assessing and diagnosing DID.
Recognize the clinical features of DID.
Understand DID and its relationship with other co-occurring disorders.
3
Principles of Treatment
Explore principles of treatment for DID across initial, middle, and late phases.
4
Key Techniques for Working with DID
Explain DID to a client.
Apply therapeutic neutrality.
Use grounding techniques.
Talk through the alters.
Orient alters to the body and the present.
Create empathy with the host.
Address host resistance.
Work with persecutor alters and identification with the aggressor.
Increase interpersonal communication and cooperation, co-participation, and co-consciousness.
Utilize journaling and drawing.
Implement many other strategies and approaches.
How to clinically support the synthesis of alters.
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