Continuing education
The Marriage of Neuroscience, Trauma and Dissociative Disorders
A continuing education activity presented by the VCU School of Social Work. This program is designed for social workers and their community partners.
- Course description and objectives
- Agenda
- Program session
- About the facilitator
- Cost and registration
Course description and objectives
This workshop will provide an overview of recent research and empirical data linking neuroscience, childhood sexual trauma and dissociative disorders — a complex protective trauma response. A combination of didactic, experiential and audio-visual materials will be used to provide an interactive workshop utilizing a biopsychosocial framework for assessment and intervention with survivors of childhood sexual trauma. A focus on the connection between attachment disorders, borderline personality disorder and dissociative disorders will also be examined.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand and describe basic principles of neurobiology and complex consequences of childhood trauma
- Recognize symptoms of dissociative functioning
- Understand the BASK Model of Dissociation (Braun, 1988)
- Differentially assess for dissociative disorders
- Use the DES (Carlson & Putnam, 1993) and other assessment tools for identifying Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Develop basic dissociative disorders clinical practice skills
Category I contact hours: 6
Continuing education units: 0.6
Agenda
9-10:15 a.m.
Welcome and introductions
A brief overview of recent research and empirical data linking neuroscience, childhood sexual trauma and dissociative disorders- a complex protective trauma response, will be presented. A combination of didactic, and audio-visual materials will be used to illustrate the impact trauma has on neurological development and childhood/adult psychological and behavioral functioning.
Understanding the BASK Model of Dissociation (Braun, 1988)
10:15-10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Identification of symptoms of dissociative functioning
11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Lunch
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Introduction to the Dissociative Experiences Scale (Carlson & Putnam, 1993) and other assessment tools for identifying dissociative identity disorder
Differential assessment of dissociative disorders
Basic clinical practice skills for intervention with dissociative disorders (Dissociative Protocol)
2:15-2:30 p.m.
Break
2:30-4:30 p.m.
The connection between attachment disorders, borderline personality disorder and dissociative disorders.
Practice Laboratory – Assessment and Intervention of Dissociative Functioning
Evaluation and closing
Program session
March 27, 2009
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
VCU University Student Commons — Virginia Rooms
907 Floyd Avenue
Richmond, Virginia 23284
Phone: (804) 828-1981
About the facilitators
Delores Dungee-Anderson, Ph.D. LCSW, CSOTP, is an associate professor and director of the M.S.W. Program at VCU. She received her M.S.W. from VCU and her doctorate in Social Work from Howard University. She is a clinical social work practitioner and has extensive training and practice in the area of trauma, neuroscience, personality disorders and dissociative disorders. She serves as a site visitor for the Council on Social Work Education and as a faculty mentor in the Hartford CSWE Gero-Ed Curriculum Development Initiative, focused on infusion of content on aging in curricula of CSWE accredited social work programs in the U.S. She is a NASW-VA Clinical Supervision and Licensure Preparation Trainer. She chairs the Clinical Practice Track of the Council on Social Work Education’s Annual Program Meeting.
Cost and registration*
- Regular: $110
- Student: $55
- Senior: $85
- VCU faculty and field instructor: $85
- Agency group of three or more: $85 each
* Includes lunch.
Registration opens March 6, 2009.
Please register online at www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/conf/socialwork/register.asp.
Registration closes on March 24, 2009 at 9 a.m.
Participants may register for CEUs by completing a CEU registration form and making a check payable to the VCU School of Social Work in the amount of $15 on the day of the event. No cash or credit cards will be accepted for this purpose.
Questions?
Contact Angela Basmajian at (804) 828-0403 or sswce@vcu.edu.