The Assessment and Treatment of Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents


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Lesson series
  • Kristine Kinniburgh

  • Live Zoom Webinars 
  • Study time: 8 hours
  • Video time: 16 hours
Course overview
16 Training Hours
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Speakers
Joyanna Silberg


WHAT'S INCLUDED

  • Kristine Kinniburgh

  • 16 Training Hours 
  • Live Zoom Webinars
  • Presenters slides available
  • Certificate of attendance

LANGUAGE

ENGLISH
ITALIAN
SPANISH

SCHEDULE

Joyanna Silberg


The Assessment and Treatment of Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents


This 2 day presentation delivered in four parts will introduce a developmental understanding of dissociation and describe how early symptoms of trauma and dissociation are manifest in young children and adolescents. The first section will emphasize theory with  an introduction to the Affect Avoidance Theory of Dissociation. The second topic to be covered will be how to assess childhood and adolescent dissociation using existing tools and careful interview. In the third section a treatment model will be presented that moves logically through education about trauma symptoms through teaching affect regulation and mastering traumatic memories. Children's artwork and writings will be presented that help to illustrate the impaired sense of identity that traumatized children may experience. Case presentations and videos will enrich the didactic content.  The presenter will introduce ways of communicating even to young children that will help them understand the effects of trauma and how to use skills to overcome the disabling effects of their experiences. In the final section of the course participants will have opportunities to learn about complex management issues and to  share case questions. Also included will be a discussion of the effect of online commercial exploitation of children, and how to work with families to rebuild attachment after trauma.



Patrick Jones - Course author
JOYANNA SILBERG
Joyanna Silberg, Ph.D. served as the Senior Consultant for Child and Adolescent Trauma at Sheppard Pratt Health System in Baltimore Maryland until 2019. Currently she is the President of the Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence.  Her psychotherapy practice specializes in consultation for children and adolescents suffering from dissociative symptoms and disorders and supervision of clinicians, and her forensic practice specializes in child sexual abuse.   She is past-president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation (ISSTD) and contributing editor to the society’s journal, the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. She is the recipient of the 1992 Walter P. Klopfer Award for her research, 1997 Cornelia Wilbur Award for clinical excellence, and the 2011 William Friedrich Award for work on Child Sexual Abuse. Silberg is the editor of The Dissociative Child (Sidran Press) and co-editor of Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors (Haworth Press). She has presented nationally and internationally on child abuse, psychotherapy, and protecting abused children in family court. . Her newest book the second edition of The Child Survivor: Healing Developmental Trauma and Dissociation, was released in August of 2021. Dr. Silberg is the 2013 recipient of the Champion for Children Award from the Domestic Violence and Legal Empowerment Appeals Project (DVLEAP), and the 2013 recipient of the Written Media Award for her book, The Child Survivor, awarded by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. She is currently working on drafting the new guidelines on the treatment of dissociative disorders in children for the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. 

WHAT'S INCLUDED

  • Kristine Kinniburgh
  • 16 Training Hours 
  • Live Zoom Webinars
  • Presenters slides available
  • Certificate of attendance

LANGUAGE

ENGLISH
ITALIAN
SPANISH

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