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Treatment of Complex Trauma (PSYG 624)

Term: 2018-2019 Spring Term

Faculty

Dr. Carolyn Lewis
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Claudia Garcia-Leeds
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Leslie Parkes Shralow
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Schedule

Sat, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (1/14/2019 - 4/29/2019) Location: MAIN MH 225

Description

This course develops skills in assessing and treating complex trauma responses arising from repeated and/or long-term toxic experience. Course content includes: the effects of chronic trauma on development; diagnostic dilemmas; establishing safe-ty in and out of the therapeutic relationship; responding to self-injurious attempts at self-soothing; working with dissociative states; pacing the processing of traumatic material; challenges to the therapeutic relationship; and therapist self-care and self-awareness. Prerequisite: PSYG 622. (Formerly GRCP-624.)