Working with Trauma, Dissociation, and Psychosis (Udemy.com)
CBT and Other Approaches to Understanding and Recovery
Created by: Ron Unger
Produced in 2019
What you will learn
- Identify possible interrelationships between trauma, dissociation, and psychosis, including ways that psychosis itself, and reactions to psychosis by others, can be traumatizing
- Describe a variety of possible causal routes from trauma to psychotic experiences, and understand the possible role of dissociation within that process
- Utilize proven cognitive strategies to address command and persecutory voices, and other common yet distressing experiences found in trauma-associated psychosis
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- Plan to integrate CBT for psychosis with various trauma therapies to effectively treat clients who have experienced both trauma and psychosis
- Demonstrate a collaborate approach to helping clients develop coherent and compassionate stories of trauma and recovery which provide an alternative to both fragmented psychotic stories, and to helplessness-inducing mental illness stories.
- 6 hou
Quality Score
Overall Score : 92 / 100
Course Description
Optimal style of therapy Shifting from whats wrong to what happened & what next
Building coherent, self-compassionate recovery narratives
Incorporating mindfulness approaches
Overcoming dissociative splits
Shifting from suppression to boundaries along with some openness
Finding & working with themes in metaphorical expressions
Spiritual considerations
Work toward the possibility of true healing, not just managing an illness!
Though mainstream approaches still commonly focus on biological factors, a large body of research now provides strong evidence that psychosis is often an understandable reaction to trauma, abuse, and other adverse experiences, with dissociation commonly at the center of that reaction.
This course presents a science based yet very humanistic and understandable conceptualization of the complex difficulties which can occur in response to adverse life events, and then teaches how CBT and other approaches can be used to help people change their relationship with these experiences, opening up possibilities for recovery.
Included in the course are video lectures, slides with some diagrams, lots of case examples, exploratory exercises, and links to additional resources for study.
The course will take 6 hours to complete.
6 hours of continuing education credit is available for social workers, psychologists, and nurses in the US, and also for licensed professional counselors and marriage and family therapists in many states in the US. (See the What am I going to get from taking this course" section for more details on CE credits.)Grievance Policy: Ron Unger LCSW and Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) seek to ensure equitable treatment of every person and to make every attempt to resolve grievances in a fair manner. Please submit a written grievance to: Ron Unger, 4ronunger@gmail.
com Grievances will receive, to the best of our ability, corrective action in order to prevent further problems.
Who this course is for:
This course will primarily be of interest to mental health workers who work with people who have experienced both trauma and psychosisThe ideal student might be a therapist, but case managers, peer support specialists, nurses, medical providers and other support workers will also find much they can use.
The course may also be of interest to people with lived experience of psychosis and to family members who would like to better understand these tricky experiences and what might possibly help people do better.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
119 Reviews
Ron Unger
Ron Unger is a therapist with 17 years experience specializing in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Psychosis, who also has extensive experience teaching continuing education seminars on that and on related topics. He has served as adjunct faculty at Portland State University, and has taught continuing education courses in various states in the US. He is chairperson of the education committee for the US Chapter of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches for Psychosis (ISPS).
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