Helping Challenging Trauma Clients to Open Up
2 Hours, 0 Minutes
Previously Recorded
Robert T. Muller PhD
2 CE Credits
Price
Paid
$39.99
Yahoo!
Webinar Description
When people live through interpersonal trauma, there is a tendency for many to stay silent about their experiences. Reasons can include loyalty to close others, or the wish to keep family secrets. As a means of protecting others and themselves from the pain of traumatic experiences, many rely on a variety of coping strategies to neutralize or cut off painful memories. For example, some may rationalize away traumatic events, use intellectualization as a defense, or dissociate and keep trauma-related feelings at bay. But silence about the painful past is both emotionally costly, and ultimately unsustainable. How can clinicians help these clients feel safe enough to start opening up about their traumatic histories?
About the Presenter:
Robert T. Muller, Ph.D. trained at Harvard, was on faculty at the University of Massachusetts, and is currently at York University in Toronto. Dr. Muller is a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation (ISSTD) for his work on trauma treatment. His newest book, Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up, was awarded the 2019 ISSTD award for the year's best written work on trauma. And his award-winning bestseller, "Trauma & the Avoidant Client" has been translated widely. As lead investigator on several multi-site programs to treat interpersonal trauma, Dr. Muller has lectured internationally (Australia, UK, Europe, USA), and has been keynote speaker at mental health conferences in New Zealand and Canada. He founded an online magazine, "The Trauma & Mental Health Report," that is now visited by over 100,000 readers a year. With over 25 years in the field, he practices in Toronto.
Learning Objectives:
- Practitioners will be able to create safety in the therapeutic relationship early on.
- Practitioners will be able to recognize client ambivalence about their trauma stories.
- Practitioners will be able to help people in therapy pace the process of opening up.
- Practitioners will be able to recognize their feelings in the treatment (e.g., the wish to rush into trauma work, or the wish to avoid it).
Agenda:
1. Doing phase-based trauma work 15 Minutes
2. How family secrecy "protects" clients 25 Minutes
3. How survivors suppress their own trauma stories 35 Minutes
4. What to do when trauma stories appear very early in the therapy 30 Minutes
5. What to do when clients rush into trauma stories 15 Minutes
Accreditation - This Webinar Offers 2 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.
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This presentation is open to:
- Behavior Analysts
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an intermediate level, and is beneficial for intermediate level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
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