Guiding Dissociative Clients to Find Solid Ground: The Conceptualization, Videos, and Exercises, with Dr. Bethany Brand 21/02/2025
Please note that this is a LIVE workshop, given online. This workshop is approved for 6 hours of continuing education by the OPQ ( RA06669-24 ). Early registration rate ($185 + taxes = $212.70) ends January 20, 2025. Regular fee: $210 + taxes ($241.45). Students receive a $60 discount on those prices.
REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In this day-long, hands-on clinical workshop, Dr. Bethany Brand will share a conceptualization of clients’ unsafe and risky behaviors as well as practical interventions that are useful in stabilizing complex trauma clients. Dr. Brand will review expert recommendations for interventions that are crucial in stabilizing highly dissociative clients. She will then discuss the most common triggers of unsafe behaviors among dissociative individuals. Knowing these triggers is a crucial step in stabilizing clients’ high-risk behaviors. The Finding Solid Ground program addresses these triggers and functions and supports clients and patients as they enhance their ability to get grounded, separate past from present, safely meet healthy needs, and manage emotions. Dr. Brand will also present materials from the Finding Solid Ground program, including journaling exercises and skill building exercises. Using videos and clinical cases, she will demonstrate compassionate ways of talking to clients about crucial aspects of recovering from trauma and clarify how to respond to common roadblocks in treatment, including when clients have amnesia for self-harm.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Identify common triggers for unsafe behavior in individuals with complex dissociative symptoms
- Implement an approach to stabilization
- Implement effective ways to help clients get grounded
- Assist clients in separating past from present
- Motivate clients who are very ambivalent about getting safer work through their ambivalence
SPEAKER
Dr. Bethany Brand, Ph.D. is Emerita Psychology Professor at Towson University. She has over 30 years of clinical and research experience, including training at Johns Hopkins Hospital, George Washington University Hospital, and at Sheppard Pratt Health System’s Trauma Disorders program. Dr. Brand has published over 130 papers focusing on treatment of complex trauma and dissociation (i.e., the TOP DD studies); the assessment of trauma-related dissociation; critiques of the fantasy model of dissociation; training about trauma; and the accuracy of textbooks’ coverage of trauma, among other topics. In addition to treating patients, Dr. Brand serves as a forensic expert in trauma-related cases including death penalty and death row cases. She is a co-author of Finding Solid Ground: Overcoming Obstacles in Trauma Treatment and The Finding Solid Ground Workbook and author of The Concise Guide to the Assessment and Treatment of Trauma-related Dissociation.
TAX INFORMATION
Medipsy is recognized by Revenu Quebec as an educational institution making our courses tax-deductible. Our accreditation number is 16-07-3871
The registration fee includes all applicable taxes.
Our GST number is 82873 880 RT0001
Our PST number is 1218616310