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Course Description

Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) involves traumatic experiences that include acute commission traumas and omission traumas related to attachment, contributing to create complex adult symptomatic presentations. Adult survivors of CSA exhibit complex PTSD features, including a great impact on self-concept, guilt and symptoms related to disgust in addition to fear, high levels of dissociative symptoms, all of which make them difficult to address. In this presentation, I will outline a conceptual framework form which to treat these cases, within the EMDR-AIP model, analyzing what adjustments need to be made in the assessment and intervention phases of the standard protocol, offering specific interventions to work with these complex cases.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able to identify and describe differences between acute trauma and childhood sexual abuse trauma.
2. Participants will be able to assess and conceptualize Childhood Sexual Abuse cases from an EMDR AIP perspective.
3. Participants will be able to design and apply specific EMDR AIP interventions for adult survivors of CSA.

Presenter(s)

Arun Mansukhani, Psy.D.

Arun S. Mansukhani, Psy.D., is a Clinical Psychologist and Sexologist with specialized training in CBT, EMDR Europe Consultant and Facilitator, Level III Sensorimotor Therapy Practitioner, and University Specialist in Clinical Hypnosis. Has delivered lectures at over 30 national and international conferences, including three EMDRIA and five EMDR Europe conferences. Trainer of mental health professionals across countries such as Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, the Netherlands, England, Ireland, Scotland, Russia, India, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. Author of Condenados a entendernos (Penguin Group, 2023). In 2024, served as an Advisor to the European Commission Citizen Panel on Hate Crimes.