Understanding & Working With Complex Traumatic Dissociation

An introductory level online course

This ESTD-UK Course now available for free and only from the Pottergate Centre for Trauma & Dissociation's website

Currently only available for individual therapeutic practitioners. If you are an NHS or other organisation wishing to use the course to train your staff / volunteers please send them the link to this page and ask they to sign up individually.

Details of the course follow. Sign up button is at the end of this page.

With a motto of “Affordable Training for People in Practice” the UK Network of Members of the European Society for Trauma & Dissociation (ESTD-UK) endeavours to keep its training costs as low as possible without compromising the quality of the content.

This four module online course provides an introduction to foundation level essentials which can be studied at your own pace. It is ESTD-UK's original self-guided study online course. It is recommended for qualified individual therapeutic practitioners working in all mental health or social care sectors. NHS and similar organisation will find it a particularly useful resource to train their clinical and therapeutic staff. If you are intending to use it as an organisation, each member of your staff doing the course needs to sign up individually to access the training modules and, on completion, their personalised certificate.

Participants working sequentially through the four modules and each module’s component units will earn a certificate of completion for 20 hours CPD after achieving a pass on the evaluation of learning multiple choice questionnaire. But more importantly in completing the course you will gain an increasingly solid foundation in a critical knowledge and skills set. With this basis you can confidently progress your CPD through further learning to increase your ability to recognise and work effectively with the many highly dissociative chronically traumatised individuals who present in NHS mental health and other therapy settings. The course completion certificate is not a qualification but does provide an indication of introductory learning in this complex subject area.

Module 1

– Introduction to Trauma-related Complex Dissociation

This module is a first introduction to the concept of dissociation, the dissociative disorders and some common misunderstanding in relation to those who experience these conditions.

It consists of four units of approximately 25 to 45 minutes each.

Presented by Melanie Goodwin and Kathryn Livingston BEM of First Person Plural – dissociative identity disorders association

Module 2

– Intro to Assessment and Treatment of Complex Dissociation

Introduces the history of the field of dissociation and provides a foundation level introduction to the assessment and treatment of complex dissociative disorders, including Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (DDNOS) or Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD)

It consists of six units of approximately 20 to 60 minutes each.

Presented by Rémy Aquarone, Analytical Psychotherapist, Director of Pottergate Centre for Dissociation and Trauma, and former president of ESTD

Module 3

– Origins of Dissociation in Childhood Abuse and Neglect

Provides significant insight into the internal world of the child and adolescent who is dissociative. The theoretical aspects of child dissociation are presented. The primary development of the self of the child enables the participant to understand the essential needs in the infant and young child for the necessary nurture and attachment. Without these, trauma might occur, which might lead to significant dissociation in the child. The module allows the child’s voice to be heard and enables the participant to gain a better understanding of the child’s subjective experiences of dissociation.

It consists of six units of approximately 20 to 40 minutes each.

Presented by Dr Renée Marks, Consultant Therapist and Clinical Lead at the National Centre for Children with Complex Trauma and Dissociation (Integrate Families) and British Institute for Childhood Trauma & Dissociation

Module 4

– An Attachment Approach to Understanding & Treating Dissociation in Adults

Provides an overview of attachment concepts relevant to work with dissociative clients/patients & their application to practice. The module introduces some relevant concepts from attachment theory and the use of an attachment framework in work with dissociation, its assessment & repair.

It consists of six units of approximately 20 to 60 minutes each.

Presented by Sue Richardson, a UKCP registered attachment–based psychotherapist & a member of The John Bowlby Centre with over 30 years’ experience in the helping professions.

Further Details

An outline of the course curriculum can be viewed below.

Course curriculum

1

Introduction
- What you need to know before you start
- Declarations, terms and conditions
- Reading List
2

All Modules - Understanding and Working with Complex Traumatic Dissociation
- Module 1 : Unit 1 - The Inside Story - Living with DID and how DID-informed support helps
- Module 1 : Unit 2 - The Inside Story - Living with DID and how DID-informed support helps
- Module 1 : Unit 3 - The Inside Story - Living with DID and how DID-informed support helps
- Module 1 : Unit 4 - The Inside Story - Living with DID and how DID-informed support helps
- Module 2 : Unit 1 – Introduction to Assessment and Treatment of Complex Dissociation
- Module 2 : Unit 2 – Introduction to Assessment and Treatment of Complex Dissociation
- Module 2 : Unit 3 – Introduction to Assessment and Treatment of Complex Dissociation
- Module 2 : Unit 4.1 – Introduction to Assessment and Treatment of Complex Dissociation
- Module 2 : Unit 4.2 – Introduction to Assessment and Treatment of Complex Dissociation
- Module 2 : Unit 5 – Introduction to Assessment and Treatment of Complex Dissociation
- Module 2 : Unit 6 – Introduction to Assessment and Treatment of Complex Dissociation
- Module 3 : Unit 1 – Origins of Dissociation in Childhood Neglect and Abuse
- Module 3 : Unit 2 – Origins of Dissociation in Childhood Neglect and Abuse
- Module 3 : Unit 3 – Origins of Dissociation in Childhood Neglect and Abuse
- Module 3 : Unit 4 – Origins of Dissociation in Childhood Neglect and Abuse
- Module 3 : Unit 5 – Origins of Dissociation in Childhood Neglect and Abuse
- Module 3 : Unit 6 – Origins of Dissociation in Childhood Neglect and Abuse
- Module 4 : Unit 1 – An Attachment Approach to Understanding and Treating Dissociation in Adults
- Module 4 : Unit 2 – An Attachment Approach to Understanding and Treating Dissociation in Adults
- Module 4 : Unit 3 – An Attachment Approach to Understanding and Treating Dissociation in Adults
- Module 4 : Unit 4 – An Attachment Approach to Understanding and Treating Dissociation in Adults
- Module 4 : Unit 5 – An Attachment Approach to Understanding and Treating Dissociation in Adults
- Important Note for next video module Module 4 : Unit 6
- Module 4 : Unit 6 – An Attachment Approach to Understanding and Treating Dissociation in Adults
- Evaluation of Learning Multiple Choice Questionnaire

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Individual therapeutic practitioners can book onto this ESTD-UK course for free. The course is curretly being offered only through the Pottergate Centre for Trauma & Dissociation website