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Complex PTSD & Dissociative Disorders
Author: Susan Ardizzoni, Ph.D.
Publisher: Premier Education Solutions 2010
Length: 5 CD(s)
Media Type: Seminar on Audio CD
Duration: 4 hours, 51 minutes
Item: CDR041820

Price : $139.99

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NOTE: The seminar manual, CE information, and CE test are contained on disc #1 in PDF format. To access these documents, play disc #1 in your computer. For the audio presentation, begin playing disc #1 in your CD player.

In 30 years as a therapist, Dr. Susan Ardizzoni has never had to hospitalize a trauma patient. This dynamic and engaging seminar recording will draw upon her vast clinical and supervisory experience and research in the area of complex PTSD.

Join Dr. Ardizzoni and better understand and more effectively treat complex PTSD and dissociative disorders. You will learn how to avoid the most common mistakes therapists make, why therapy gets stuck and how to get going again. People who have experienced severe ongoing trauma often have a large variety of symptoms, but clinicians are hesitant to diagnose dissociative identity disorder NOS and dissociative identity disorder.

OBJECTIVES
  • Identify and diagnose complex PTSD
  • Identify dissociative symptoms and develop plans to manage them
  • Describe techniques for developing a positive and safe therapeutic relationship
  • List client coping skills & describe strengths and techniques for building them
  • Summarize key maladaptive behaviors and their purpose
  • Apply cognitive and behavioral interventions to alleviate the negative consequences of complex PTSD

OUTLINE

Part One: The Relevant Issues
  • Defining Trauma
    1. Simple trauma and complex trauma
    2. Simple PTSD and complex PTSD
    3. Physiological impact of trauma, anxiety, startle response and nightmares
    4. Typical cognitive and behavioral responses to trauma
    5. Confounding factors that effect impact of trauma
    6. Dissociation and the diferential diagnoses of dissociative disorders
    7. Effective short-term therapy techniques with simple and complex PTSD

Part Two: Assessment
  • The Critical Foundation to Effective Treatment
    1. Assessment goals: home and workplace functioning, health, coping mechanisms, cognitive, behavioral and physiological impact of trauma, family history, relationships
    2. Choosing the right assessment tools

Part Three: Diagnosis
  • Under-Diagnosis of Disassociative Disorders
    1. Identify typical mistakes when diagnosing clients with complex PTSD
    2. Identify and discuss criteria for diagnosing clients with disassociative disorders
    3. Identify typical co-morbid diagnosis: depression, anxiety, substance-abuse and eating disorders, sleep disorders, borderline personality disorder
    4. Discuss relationship between diagnosis and obtaining insurance sessions for clients with complex PTSD

Part Four: Treatment
  • Stabilize Properly & Keep your Clients Out of the Hospital
    1. Establish a positive therapeutic relationship
    2. Identify techniques for easing cognitive dissonance
    3. Psycho education of client in trauma, egocentricity, tendency of self blame, cognitive dissonance, disassociation if appropriate and CBT
    4. Identify intrusive or disassociative symptoms
    5. Build on positive coping skills and develop plan to eliminate intrusive symptoms
    6. Develop strategies for encouraging the client to expand support systems
    7. Develop plan to manage disassociative symptoms
    8. Develop a safety plan
    9. Identify irrational beliefs
    10. Replace irrational beliefs
    11. Identify and work with alter personalities if appropriate

Integration Phase
  • The Long-Term, Hard Work of Therapy with the Most Client Resistance
    1. Discuss and integrate traumatic memories
    2. Connect memories to affect
    3. Identify dissociative symptoms and develop coping skills to reduce them
    4. Foster cooperation and integration of alter personalities
    5. Identify uses of hypnosis and risks and benefts of memory integration
    6. Educate client as to the nature of somatic memory, verbally stored memory, and the false memory debate
    7. Avoid acting as a parent to the client or their alter personalities or siding with one or more alter personalities

Consolidation Phase
  • The Most Exciting and Rewarding Phase of Therapy
    1. Identify future goals and develop a plan to achieve them
    2. Trying on the “new self”
    3. Relationship and career changes

Part Five: Managed Care
  • Practical Information about How to Help your Client Get Proper Treatment
    1. Identify criteria required by insurance companies to approve additional sessions
    2. Discuss how to develop a common language when working with insurance companies
    3. Discuss the documentation required by insurance companies

ABOUT SUSAN ARDIZZONI, Ph.D.

Susan Ardizzoni, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist with over 30 years’ clinical experience specializing in the treatment of PTSD and dissociative disorders. As a guest lecturer, she has spoken on the subject of trauma for over 25 years at major universities such as Holy Cross College, Worcester Polytechnical Institute, Clark University and Assumption College. She has spoken on the radio, been interviewed on television and has been quoted in magazines. As a consultant and supervisor, working on providing licensure supervision, Dr. Ardizzoni reviewed patient charts and identified problems with diagnosis and treatment. By conducting a survey of psychologists’ practices treating complex PTSD, she has identified the most common problems associated with treating clients with complex PTSD and developed practical, tested strategies to avoid them. She is known for her ability to translate statistics, theory and standard techniques into practical interventions that can be immediately and successfully used with clients.

In addition to treating survivors of severe trauma, complex PTSD and dissociative disorders, she has many years’ experience supervising and consulting with clinicians who treat trauma survivors. Dr. Ardizzoni completed her Doctorate of Clinical Psychology from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology in West Roxbury, MA.

CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION

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COUNSELORS: CMI Education Institute, Inc. is recognized by the National Board for Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for National Certified Counselors. Provider #: 5637. We adhere to NBCC Continuing Education Guidelines. This self-study package qualifies for 4.75 contact hours.

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PSYCHOLOGISTS: CMI Education Institute, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CMI Education Institute, Inc. maintains responsibility for these materials and their content. CMI Education Institute, Inc. is offering these self-study materials for 4.5 hours of continuing education credit.

MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS: This activity consists of 4.75 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

ADDICTION COUNSELORS: CMI Education Institute, Inc. is a Provider approved by NAADAC Approved Education Provider Program. Provider #: 00131. This self-study package qualifies for 5.5 contact hours.

NURSES/NURSE PRACTITIONERS/CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALISTS: This self-study package meets the criteria for a formally approved American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Activity. CMI Education Institute, Inc, is an approved sponsor by the American Psychological Association, which is recognized by the ANCC for behavioral health related activities.

This self-study material qualifies for 4.5 contact hours.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Therapists, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Case Managers, Nurses, Other Mental Health Professionals

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