CEU Requirements For July 31st, 2023 event

This continuing education event was on the topics of dissociation, resiliency and trauma in a clinical setting. It was hosted at Free Cycles in Missoula, Montana on July 31st, 2023 and offered 20 CEU credits. Below are the speakers present and information on their specific topics covered.

(90 mins) 7.31.23 

Secondary Trauma Activates Resilience- Training:

Consequences and the Power of a Trauma Engaged Approach 

I. Engagement Creates Activation of the Key Affective Systems 

Red, Green and Blue: Threat, Drive and Nurture, Jan Panskeep 

The Impact of Secondary Trauma on Effective Workers: Body, Cognition, Emotion, and Relationships 

II. Toxicity Reduction or Post-Traumatic Growth and the Building of  Resilience 

Examples of Post-Traumatic Growth

Formula for Resilience. 

Strategies for Co- Regulation in the Work Setting

Attachment and the Connecting Skills: Pulsing 

Strategies for Self: Regulation: Awareness and Body Tracking 

Interpersonal Neurobiology and the Impact on the Secondary Trauma 

III . The Building of Resilience 

Resources for Building Resilience The Tool Box of Resilience

Attachment Engagement in the Work Setting 

Morning Grounding Activity 

Tracking Regulatory States Throughout the Day 

Transition Rituals 

 (2 hours) 7.31.23

The suicide training portion of the workshop will encompass an overview of current statistics in Montana, as well as the conceptualization of suicidality (according to the C-SSRS, the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide, and positive psychology), before launching into suicide screener/assessment options and other tools like holistic safety planning and digital resources. Participants will be tasked with evaluating current professional practices in suicide prevention and intervention, considering how to improve their approach to suicidality in client populations.

(90 minutes) 7.31.23

Post-traumatic growth refers to the many positive changes that can come from struggling to process a very negative or traumatic life experience. As specified in Tedeschi and Calhoun's Post-traumatic Growth model, for many people, it can lead to changed relationships, personal strength, increased appreciation for one's life, new possibilities and goals, and spiritual growth. In this workshop, we will discuss the process of PTG, and how to cultivate it with your clients through expressive writing exercises. Through journaling exercises, you will be provided with prompts for how to help your clients to think differently about their trauma, claim the gifts that have emerged from their struggles, and become the heroes of their own story.

(90 minutes) 7.31.23

Jamie Marich, Ph.D., LPCC-S, REAT, RYT-500 

Description

“Don’t let them dissociate!”

“Everybody has parts… that doesn’t mean you’re one of those people with DID.”

“Dissociation is the opposite of mindfulness.”

Myths, misconceptions, and cruel assessments of people who dissociate still abound in the helping professions. Although dissociation, or severing/separating, is a natural part of all trauma response and the human experience, even seasoned professionals can find themselves baffled in addressing dissociation clinically. Your guide for this presentation addresses these problems from several angles—as a person with a dissociative disorder and intricate internal system, as an EMDR Therapy practitioner and trainer, and as a long-time recipient of various approaches to trauma therapy as a client. Solutions are proposed for helping professionals become less afraid of dissociation by more fully embracing their own internal world of responses and parts and committing to address the abundance of stigma that exists toward people with dissociative identities in helping professions and in society at large. These paradigm shifts can lead us to more effectively serve our clients and to not judge all dissociative minds as the same. 

Objectives

(a) Define dissociation in a comprehensive manner, identifying three of the most common myths and misconceptions about conducting trauma therapy with people who have dissociative identities (DID) and other dissociative responses

(c) Describe how stigma in both the media and the psychological professions have created a hesitancy or fear of addressing dissociation clinically, and then articulate 2-3 solutions for addressing such barriers 

(d) Explain how phenomenology, or listening to lived experiences of people with dissociative disorders, can help you build more effective treatment plans and strategies

References

Balon, R. (2022). Self-disclosure: Times are changing for the better. Academic Medicine, 97(8), 1094-1095.

Brand, B., Sar, V., Stavropolous, P., et al. (2016). Separating fact from fiction: An empirical examination of six myths about dissociative identity disorder. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 24(4), 257-270.

Christensen, E., (2022). The online community: DID and plurality. European Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 6(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2021.100257

Fletcher, A. (2022). Multilayered. Psychiatric Services, Available: https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100706

Forner, C. (2019). What mindfulness can learn from dissociation and dissociation can learn from mindfulness. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 20(1), 1-15. 

Johnson, C., & Ding, H. (2021). Therapist self-disclosure: Let’s tackle the elephant in the room. Clinical Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 26(2), 443-450. 

Jones, N., Attenbury, K., Byrne, L., et al. (2021). Lived experience, research leadership, and the transformation of mental health services: Building a researcher pipeline. Psychiatric Services, 72(5), 591-593.

Bio

Dr. Jamie Marich (she/they) a woman in long-term recovery from an addictive disorder and is living loudly and proudly as a woman with a dissociative disorder with the goal of smashing stigma about dissociation in the mental health field and in society at large. Jamie began her career as a humanitarian aid worker in Bosnia-Hercegovina from 2000-2003, primarily teaching English and music. Jamie travels internationally teaching on topics related to trauma, EMDR therapy, expressive arts, mindfulness, and yoga, while maintaining a private practice and online education operations in her home base of Northeast Ohio. Marich is the founder of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness and the developer of the Dancing Mindfulness approach to expressive arts therapy. Marich is the author of EMDR Made Simple: 4 Approaches for Using EMDR with Every Client (2011), Trauma and the Twelve Steps: A Complete Guide for Recovery Enhancement (2012), Creative Mindfulness (2013), Trauma Made Simple: Competencies in Assessment, Treatment, and Working with Survivors, Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation (2015), and Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery (2019). Marich co-authored EMDR Therapy & Mindfulness for Trauma-Focused Carealong with colleague Dr. Stephen Dansiger in 2018, and their new book with Springer Publishing Healing Addiction with EMDR Therapy: A Trauma-Focused Guide released in 2021. North Atlantic Books published a revised and expanded edition of Trauma and the 12 Steps in the Summer of 2020, and they released The Healing Power of Jiu-Jitsu: A Guide to Transforming Trauma and Facilitating Recovery in 2022. Her latest release with North Atlantic Book, Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Lifereleased in January 2023. 

NALGAP: The Association of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Addiction Professionals and Their Allies awarded Jamie with their esteemed President’s Award in 2015 for her work as an LGBT advocate. The EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) granted Jamie the 2019 Advocacy in EMDR Award for her using her public platform in media and in the addiction field to advance awareness about EMDR therapy and to reduce stigma around mental health. Marich formerly sat on the clinical workgroup of EMDRIA’s Council of Scholars, and currently sits on the editorial board of the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research.