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Leadership Series: Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents

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Course Description

Repeated traumatic experiences within the family and/or community during critical early years leave children with symptoms of traumatic stress, interruptions in their emotional and social development, and disorganized attachment patterns. As a result, they are high risk for developing behavioral reactivity, aggression, impulsivity, depression, anxiety, suicidality, and self-harm. Lecture, handouts and videos will provide participants with steps to a practical, integrative EMDR and family therapy approach to helping children and adolescents with complex traumatic stress disorders. Participants will be provided family therapy methods for shifting parents to attune and co-regulate through the trauma lens and build capacity to self-reflect along with the child. Participants will be provided EMDR Attachment Resource Development (ARD) methods to deepen the child’s sense of connection and trust with parents as well as gentle ways to assist children with complex traumatic stress disorders during EMDR reprocessing of traumatic events and present triggers.

Learning Objectives

  1. Participants will be able to identify an attachment pattern that is typical for children who want to run toward and away from the parent simultaneously and become high risk for a dissociative disorder and other major mental disorders in adolescence.
  2. Participants will be able to describe two rationale for integrating family therapy, which includes parenting education, with EMDR therapy for children affected by complex traumatic stress disorders.
  3. Participants will be able to identify three questions to ask parents to encourage nurturing words for helping children feel both loved and lovable during the “messages of love” EMDR Attachment Resource Development (ARD) activity.

Presenter(s)

Debra Wesselmann, MS, LIMHP

Debra Wesselmann, MS, LIMHP, has specialized in treating trauma and attachment problems in adults and children for over 30 years and co-founded The Attachment and Trauma Center of Nebraska in Omaha, Nebraska. She is an EMDR trainer for the EMDR Institute and an EMDRIA approved EMDR consultant. Wesselmann has co-authored articles, chapters, and books related to attachment and trauma, including the recent treatment manual for the EMDR and family therapy integrative model as well as the companion parent guide, both published by W.W. Norton. She presents nationally and internationally.

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Date
September 11, 2022

Presented by
Debra Wesselmann

Run Time
178 minutes

EMDRIA Credits
3

NBCC Credits
3

Topics
Complex Trauma

Client Population
Adolescents, Children

Cost (member)
$70

Cost (nonmember)
$95

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Publisher
EMDR International Association

Rights
The presenter(s) retains control over the publishing and copyright of this presentation/course.

APA Citation
Wesselmann, D. (2022, September 11). Leadership Series: Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents [Online Course]. EMDR International Association. https://www.pathlms.com/emdria/courses/60472

Audience
EMDR Therapists

Language
English

Content Type
Course

Original Source
Conference 2022

Access Type
Paid Access

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