OVERVIEW

International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) 2021 Annual Conference is organized by International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) and will be held from Apr 09 - 12, 2021.

Accreditation:
ASWB ACE
The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), #1744, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ISSTD maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2020 – 08/20/2021. Social workers completing this course receive up to 25.5 continuing education credits for full attendance during all four days.

Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
• Identify some of the most recent and salient research relevant to the trauma and dissociation field
• Describe the central role of dissociation in complex trauma related disorders
• Assess clients for dissociative disorders and complex PTSD and related comorbidity
• Identify cultural, social, and religious effects on trauma, dissociation, and trauma-informed treatments
• Assess and treat children, adolescents, and adults with complex PTSD, developmental trauma disorder, and/or dissociative disorders
• Describe the relationships among trauma, dissociation, and other psychological signs, symptoms, and disorders, including personality disorders
• Employ new treatment approaches and interventions for complex trauma and dissociation
• Identify and effectively work with transference
• Recognize, avoid, or resolve therapeutic pitfalls, resistances, counter-resistances, and impasses
• Recognize the ethical and relational challenges posed by trauma and dissociation patients and discuss productive approaches to these issues
• Identify and effectively work with countertransference, vicarious traumatization, and needs related to therapist self-care