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Janina Fisher’s Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training Level 1 (CCTP): Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma
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Objectives
Session I - Trauma and the Body
- Demonstrate knowledge of three neurobiologically-based trauma responses and articulate how this information may inform choice of treatment interventions.
- Appraise how the somatosensory and autonomic effects of trauma exacerbate symptoms of PTSD in clients.
- Assess the role and treatment implications of procedural learning and memory in client presentations.
- Incorporate sensorimotor interventions into treatments to decrease symptoms of PTSD in clients.
Session II - Working with the Complications of Dysregulation: Addictions, Eating Disorders, & Self-Destructive Behaviour
- Assess the relationship between autonomic dysregulation and addictive or self-destructive behaviour in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
- Articulate the necessity for an integrated treatment of trauma and addictive or suicidal behaviour to improve treatment outcomes.
- Assess appropriate cognitive-behavioural techniques for treating autonomic dysregulation in clients.
- Specify three somatic techniques for regulating autonomic arousal traumatic reactions in clients.
Session III - Working with Traumatic Memory: Principles and Techniques
- Determine ‘implicit memory’ and break down its role in post-traumatic stress disorders as it relates to treatment outcomes.
- Determine potential complications of addressing narrative memories of traumatic events in treatment sessions.
- Specify three interventions that address these complications and put to practical use in session.
- Analyze the efficacy of these interventions and distinguish the signs that traumatic memory has been sufficiently processed.
Session IV - Disorganized Attachment and the Traumatic Transference
- Outline the root causes of ‘disorganized attachment’ status in children and its clinical implications.
- Specify difficulties associated with disorganized attachment for symptom management.
- Articulate the role of disorganized attachment on therapeutic transference/countertransference.
- Utilize clinical strategies that reduce the complications of traumatic attachment in clients.
Session V - The Role of Dissociation in Trauma-Related Disorders
- Differentiate ‘dissociative states’ versus ‘structural dissociation’ as symptoms of trauma and express their treatment implications.
- Evaluate the role of structural dissociation in the treatment of complex trauma and personality disorders.
- Diagnose common trauma-related internal conflicts and determine their impact on clients as it relates to case conceptualization.
- Utilize mindfulness-based interventions to address resolution of internal conflicts in clients.
Session VI - Working with Shame, Fear and Anger
- Articulate the role of shame as an adaptation to trauma and its treatment implications.
- Specify the roles of fear and anger as animal defence survival responses to traumatic experiences in clients.
- Demonstrate use of both somatic and cognitive interventions to decrease shame, fear and anger in clients.
- Determine the role of re-framing in the successful treatment of post-traumatic emotional responses in clients.
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01/11/2018
Janina Fisher’s Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training Level 2 (CCTP-II): Treatment of Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorders
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Objectives
Session I - Introduction to the Treatment of Dissociation
- Determine three signs or symptoms of ‘complex trauma’ as it relates to case conceptualization.
- Differentiate dissociative compartmentalization vs. alterations in consciousness.
- Apply the Structural Dissociation model as related to clinical treatment.
- Determine signs of altered consciousness in traumatized clients.
- Discriminate symptoms caused by activity of trauma-related parts.
- Discriminate signs of voices found in dissociative disorder versus schizophrenic clients.
- Specify therapist interventions that increase patient ability to identify and determine dissociated parts to improve client level of functioning.
- Articulate role of mindfulness-based techniques in the treatment of dissociation.
Session II - Increasing Awareness of Dysregulated Parts and Dissociative States
- Determine signs of dissociative parts in the therapy hour.
- Determine manifestations of parts observed in physical presentation and facial expression in session.
- Differentiate characteristics of fight, flight, freeze, attach and submit parts.
- Utilize the term ‘blending’ as it applies to structurally dissociated parts for symptom management.
- Implement parts language as an intervention in the therapy of dissociative and dysregulated clients.
- Determine and analyze dissociative “switching” to improve client engagement.
- Utilize clinical strategies to increase internal communication in clients.
- Determine the therapist’s role in ‘coaching’ internal dialogue skills to improve treatment outcomes.
Session III - Working with Traumatic Memory in DID: Implicit Memory and Animal Defense Survival Responses
- Determine the distinction between trauma-related explicit memory and implicit memory for purpose of client psychoeducation.
- Differentiate implicit memories versus situational emotional responses.
- Determine the complications of treating event memories with dissociative disorder clients to improve clinical outcomes.
- Utilize clinical strategies to determine the role of animal defence survival responses in dissociative disorders and their relationship to traumatic memory.
- Determine characteristic trauma-related internal conflicts found in trauma-related disorders as related to clinical treatment.
- Utilize clinical strategies to develop client’s ability to determine internal conflicts as struggles between parts to improve clinical outcomes.
- Determine indications and best practices for processing traumatic memories to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
- Apply the meaning of the term “integration” in the treatment of dissociation as it relates to case conceptualization.
Session IV - Traumatic Attachment and the Treatment of Dissociative Disorders
- Apply the concept of “controlling strategies” as a complication of disorganized attachment to improve client level of functioning.
- Determine the implications of the controlling strategies in dissociative disorders as related to clinical treatment.
- Differentiate the interaction between traumatic attachment and self-destructive behaviour to improve treatment outcomes.
- Articulate the effects of traumatic/disorganized attachment on the transference.
- Demonstrate uses of right brain-to right brain communication to address attachment-related issues.
- Utilize interventions for enhancing internal collaboration.
- Apply the use of the social engagement system (Porges) to improve client engagement.
- Facilitate increased access to states of self-compassion to improve client level of functioning.
Session V - Working with Regression, Aggression and Passivity
- Articulate the role of regression and aggression as survival responses to threat.
- Analyze personality disorder diagnoses in the light of research on disorganized attachment in clients.
- Specify verbal and somatic interventions for working with client dependency as related to clinical treatment.
- Demonstrate use of somatic and cognitive interventions to ameliorate devaluing and verbally aggressive behaviour.
- Articulate the role of depression as an adaptation to trauma.
- Specify cognitive and somatic interventions for addressing chronic depressive states in clients.
- Determine how to address depression and passivity as a part to improve client level of functioning.
- Apply the use of positive re-framing in work with parts of the personality as it relates to treatment outcomes.
Session VI - Integration and Healing
- Articulate the traditional view of integration used in dissociative disorders treatment.
- Evaluate the complications of a focus on ‘integration’.
- Demonstrate interventions for increasing internal communication and cooperation among parts.
- Demonstrate internal collaboration as an alternative to traditional models of integration in a clinical setting.
- Determine how “healing” has been defined historically as it relates to clinical practice.
- Articulate ‘bottom-up’ approaches to healing that have developed over the past ten years.
- Determine the ‘negativity bias’ and its effects on psychological health and resilience in clients.
- Outline the role of self-acceptance and compassion in the healing process to improve clinical outcomes.
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01/11/2018
Trauma Defined: Bessel van der Kolk on The Body Keeps the Score
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Objectives
- Evaluate how trauma influences the activity of the key areas of the brain and how that dictates behavior patterns.
- Articulate the clinical research surrounding the effectiveness of yoga, mindfulness meditation, and theater in healing trauma in clients.
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02/09/2014
Overcoming Trauma-Related Shame and Self-Loathing with Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
Program Information
Objectives
- Discriminate the clinical implications of physiological and cognitive contributors to shame.
- Determine cognitive-behavioral, ego state, and psychoeducational interventions to address shame in clients.
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09/12/2013