Understanding, Recognizing & Treating
Dissociative Disorders in Children & Adolescents

When children are sexually abused, particularly within their families, they are trapped.  Lacking the power and resources to leave or fight back, they dissociate, hiding core aspects of themselves within.  In an incestuous family, where the abuse is ongoing over a period of time, some children develop internal worlds, splitting off entire parts of themselves, developing other, incomplete selves.  This workshop will help workers recognize Dissociative Disorders in children and adolescents, and provide guidelines for treating them.

March 5, 2013
9:30am – 4:30pm

Good Shepherd Services
Human Services Workshops
12 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011
(212)243-7070 x479

Sign up for workshop #262.

Traumatic Transference:
Understanding its Role in Working with
Young Adults Neglected/Abused as Children

No matter what role we intend to play with our clients, they will assign us roles (often unconsciously) based on what they learned in early childhood.  This is their transference.  When those experiences include neglect and physical and sexual abuse (including incest), their expectations that we will treat them them badly  (traumatic transference) make them defensive.  Those defensive behaviors have the power to elicit negative responses from us.  In this workshop we will explore the nature of this traumatic transference, and practice ways to recognize and manage it.

November 6, 2012
9:30am – 4:30pm

Good Shepherd Services
Human Services Workshops
12 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011
(212)243-7070 x479

Sign up for workshop #242

Understanding, Recognizing & Treating
Dissociative Disorders in Children & Adolescents

When children are sexually abused, particularly within their families, they are trapped.  Lacking the power and resources to leave or fight back, they dissociate, hiding core aspects of themselves within.  In an incestuous family, where the abuse is ongoing over a period of time, some children develop internal worlds, splitting off entire parts of themselves, developing other, incomplete selves.  This workshop will help workers recognize Dissociative Disorders in children and adolescents, and provide guidelines for treating them.

September 30, 2010
9:30am – 4:30pm

Good Shepherd Services
Human Services Workshops
12 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011
(212)243-7070 x479

Sign up for workshop #262