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Carol Forgash, LCSW - The Negative Impact of Complex PTSD on Health - 1.5 EMDRIA Credits
The Negative Impact of
Complex PTSD on Health:
An EMDR/Ego State Treatment Plan
Presenter Carol Forgash, LCSW - 1.5 EMDRIA Credits
EMDR and Ego State integrated treatment provides a clinical model for dealing with health problems in complex trauma survivors. Health problems are made more complex by the presence of dissociative disorders and PTSD symptoms in adult survivors. This presentation will focus on the treatment of these disorders. EMDR and Ego State techniques will be utilized to help the CTS patient: a) manage triggers and avoid re-traumatization, hyperarousal and numbing; desensitize and reprocess traumatic events; b) become assertive health consumers and deal with medical/dental procedures and tests; c) learn skills such as rehearsal, identifying problems, planning visits, etc. (Intermediate & Advanced) 60%
An EMDR/Ego State Treatment Plan
Presenter Carol Forgash, LCSW - 1.5 EMDRIA Credits
EMDR and Ego State integrated treatment provides a clinical model for dealing with health problems in complex trauma survivors. Health problems are made more complex by the presence of dissociative disorders and PTSD symptoms in adult survivors. This presentation will focus on the treatment of these disorders. EMDR and Ego State techniques will be utilized to help the CTS patient: a) manage triggers and avoid re-traumatization, hyperarousal and numbing; desensitize and reprocess traumatic events; b) become assertive health consumers and deal with medical/dental procedures and tests; c) learn skills such as rehearsal, identifying problems, planning visits, etc. (Intermediate & Advanced) 60%
Uri Bergmann, PhD - Treating Dissociation in the Spectrum of Personality Disorder - 3.0 EMDRIA Credits
Treating Dissociation
in the Spectrum of Personality Disorders:
Integrating EMDR and Ego State Treatment
Presenter Uri Bergmann, PhD - 3.0 EMDRIA Credits
The integration of EMDR with Ego State therapy will be presented as a comprehensive approach to the treatment of the wide spectrum of personality disorders. New evidence from the fields of neuroscience, regarding the normative multiplicity of the self, will be defined and described. Historically, the treatment of personality disorders has been described as difficult, if not impossible; manifested by a rigid, character-armor, defensive resistance. This presentation will propose that the presence of untreated dissociation accounts for these failures and will highlight the use of ego-state-specific EMDR targeting to facilitate robust processing. (Advanced) 80%
Integrating EMDR and Ego State Treatment
Presenter Uri Bergmann, PhD - 3.0 EMDRIA Credits
The integration of EMDR with Ego State therapy will be presented as a comprehensive approach to the treatment of the wide spectrum of personality disorders. New evidence from the fields of neuroscience, regarding the normative multiplicity of the self, will be defined and described. Historically, the treatment of personality disorders has been described as difficult, if not impossible; manifested by a rigid, character-armor, defensive resistance. This presentation will propose that the presence of untreated dissociation accounts for these failures and will highlight the use of ego-state-specific EMDR targeting to facilitate robust processing. (Advanced) 80%
Deany Laliotis, LCSW-C - EMDR Masters Series – I - 3.0 EMDRIA Credits
EMDR Masters Series
– I
Presenter Deany Laliotis, LCSW-C - 3.0 EMDRIA Credits
Twenty years ago, EMDR began as a clinical technique used to help clients reprocess major traumatic experiences. Since then, EMDR has developed into a comprehensive psychotherapy approach that is being used to treat low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, and performance issues not connected to major trauma, but rather to networks of unprocessed early experiences. This workshop will help clinicians develop a way of thinking about and applying EMDR to these cases where the “traumas” are not so obvious, but nonetheless, a powerful contributor to the client’s current difficulties. Cases will be presented in depth with videotape to illustrate how the treatment process evolves using EMDR and how to adequately address the insidious nature of these childhood experiences. Participants will learn how to conceptualize the case over time, how to apply cognitive interweave strategies to facilitate the client’s process, and how to develop future templates to facilitate personal growth and lasting change. (Advanced) 100%
Presenter Deany Laliotis, LCSW-C - 3.0 EMDRIA Credits
Twenty years ago, EMDR began as a clinical technique used to help clients reprocess major traumatic experiences. Since then, EMDR has developed into a comprehensive psychotherapy approach that is being used to treat low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, and performance issues not connected to major trauma, but rather to networks of unprocessed early experiences. This workshop will help clinicians develop a way of thinking about and applying EMDR to these cases where the “traumas” are not so obvious, but nonetheless, a powerful contributor to the client’s current difficulties. Cases will be presented in depth with videotape to illustrate how the treatment process evolves using EMDR and how to adequately address the insidious nature of these childhood experiences. Participants will learn how to conceptualize the case over time, how to apply cognitive interweave strategies to facilitate the client’s process, and how to develop future templates to facilitate personal growth and lasting change. (Advanced) 100%
Andrew M. Leeds, PhD - Learning to Feel Good About Positive Emotions - 1.5 EMDRIA Credits
Learning to feel good
about positive emotions
with the Positive Affect Tolerance and Integration protocol
Presenter Andrew M. Leeds, PhD - 1.5 EMDRIA Credits
Survivors of profound early childhood emotional neglect and abuse often experience shared positive emotional states as aversive. For such survivors these states are unfamiliar and may be associated with formative experiences of being ignored, shamed or hurt. Concepts from the Adaptive Information Processing Model, attachment theory, Putnam's discrete behavioral states model and McCullough's affect phobia provide the foundation for the Positive Affect Tolerance and Integration Protocol. Standard EMDR procedural steps increase tolerance for and integration of positive emotional states and to develop a more resilient and positive self-concept. Case examples illustrate criteria and potential benefits of this approach with the aim of encouraging further research. (Intermediate) 100%
with the Positive Affect Tolerance and Integration protocol
Presenter Andrew M. Leeds, PhD - 1.5 EMDRIA Credits
Survivors of profound early childhood emotional neglect and abuse often experience shared positive emotional states as aversive. For such survivors these states are unfamiliar and may be associated with formative experiences of being ignored, shamed or hurt. Concepts from the Adaptive Information Processing Model, attachment theory, Putnam's discrete behavioral states model and McCullough's affect phobia provide the foundation for the Positive Affect Tolerance and Integration Protocol. Standard EMDR procedural steps increase tolerance for and integration of positive emotional states and to develop a more resilient and positive self-concept. Case examples illustrate criteria and potential benefits of this approach with the aim of encouraging further research. (Intermediate) 100%
Ana M. Gomez, MC, LPC - Creative Ways of Administering EMDR with Children - 3.0 EMDRIA Credits
Creative Ways of
Administering the EMDR Protocol with Children
Presenter Ana M. Gomez, MC, LPC - 3.0 EMDRIA Credits
This workshop will provide a comprehensive body of knowledge and advanced techniques so EMDR clinicians can effectively implement the EMDR protocol with children. Participants will learn strategies to make children acquainted with the different components of the EMDR protocol, as well as the use of sand tray techniques to assist children during the EMDR assessment and desensitization phases. Special attention will be placed on how and when to use the cognitive interweave with children. Different types of cognitive interweaves that are more suitable for children will be presented. Additionally, this workshop will address how to work on the future template with children using play therapy and creative strategies. (Intermediate) 100%
Presenter Ana M. Gomez, MC, LPC - 3.0 EMDRIA Credits
This workshop will provide a comprehensive body of knowledge and advanced techniques so EMDR clinicians can effectively implement the EMDR protocol with children. Participants will learn strategies to make children acquainted with the different components of the EMDR protocol, as well as the use of sand tray techniques to assist children during the EMDR assessment and desensitization phases. Special attention will be placed on how and when to use the cognitive interweave with children. Different types of cognitive interweaves that are more suitable for children will be presented. Additionally, this workshop will address how to work on the future template with children using play therapy and creative strategies. (Intermediate) 100%
Uri Bergmann, PhD - The Neurobiology of EMDR: Recent Findings and Insights - 3.0 EMDRIA Credits
The Neurobiology of
EMDR: Recent Findings and Insights
Presenter Uri Bergmann, PhD - 3.0 EMDRIA Credits
Clinical case reports and controlled research suggest that EMDR is equally and perhaps more efficacious than other methods in treating PTSD. However, as EMDR originated as an empirically driven method, there has persisted a need for a more defined theoretical and neurobiological model of EMDR’s reported robust effects. This presentation will synthesize the existing research on memory formation. Specific attention will be given to recent empirical findings, involving the thalamus in somatosensory integration and in episodic and procedural memory integration. This material will be integrated with previously posited theories regarding the cerebellum’s involvement in many aspects of information processing and activation processes of the frontal lobes and EMDR’s activation of the neurophysiology of REM-sleep systems. (Introductory) 70%
Presenter Uri Bergmann, PhD - 3.0 EMDRIA Credits
Clinical case reports and controlled research suggest that EMDR is equally and perhaps more efficacious than other methods in treating PTSD. However, as EMDR originated as an empirically driven method, there has persisted a need for a more defined theoretical and neurobiological model of EMDR’s reported robust effects. This presentation will synthesize the existing research on memory formation. Specific attention will be given to recent empirical findings, involving the thalamus in somatosensory integration and in episodic and procedural memory integration. This material will be integrated with previously posited theories regarding the cerebellum’s involvement in many aspects of information processing and activation processes of the frontal lobes and EMDR’s activation of the neurophysiology of REM-sleep systems. (Introductory) 70%
Mark Nickerson, LICSW - EMDR and Treatment for Angry and Violent Behaviors - 1.5 EMDRIA Credits
EMDR and Treatment for
Angry and Violent Behaviors
Presenter Mark Nickerson, LICSW - 1.5 EMDRIA Credits
Much can be gained as the EMDR clinician develops sharper awareness of the dynamics of angry and violent “acting out” behavior. An AIP informed approach can aid in case formulation with these issues and lead to accelerated client gain. The cyclical nature of violence will be depicted, as well as other common characteristics in a spectrum of hostile behaviors, including perpetrator state and trait issues. The presentation will demonstrate ways in which EMDR processing can work in conjunction with widely used cognitive-behavioral interventions and, with careful target selection, offer opportunities for desensitization of the trauma that often drives them. Discussion will highlight advantages of an EMDR approach in minimizing problematic transferential issues with “resistant” clients. Theory and practice will be illuminated by a case presentation and clinical anecdotes. Graphic, user-friendly therapeutic tools will be offered. Implications for the use of this model in treating other cyclical “acting out” behaviors will be explored. (Introductory & Intermediate) 65%
Presenter Mark Nickerson, LICSW - 1.5 EMDRIA Credits
Much can be gained as the EMDR clinician develops sharper awareness of the dynamics of angry and violent “acting out” behavior. An AIP informed approach can aid in case formulation with these issues and lead to accelerated client gain. The cyclical nature of violence will be depicted, as well as other common characteristics in a spectrum of hostile behaviors, including perpetrator state and trait issues. The presentation will demonstrate ways in which EMDR processing can work in conjunction with widely used cognitive-behavioral interventions and, with careful target selection, offer opportunities for desensitization of the trauma that often drives them. Discussion will highlight advantages of an EMDR approach in minimizing problematic transferential issues with “resistant” clients. Theory and practice will be illuminated by a case presentation and clinical anecdotes. Graphic, user-friendly therapeutic tools will be offered. Implications for the use of this model in treating other cyclical “acting out” behaviors will be explored. (Introductory & Intermediate) 65%