2017 CURSOS INTERNACIONALES

Plenary Panel: The Borderline Question (Julian Ford, Warwick Middletown & Dolores Mosquera) Workshop 1. Working with voices regardless of diagnosis (Andrew Moskowitz & Dolores Mosquera) Workshop 2. Working with Positive Emotion and Experience in the Treatment of Chronic Trauma (Kathy Steele & Dolores Mosquera)

Development of EMDR has set up a very effective approach to psychological trauma therapy. As a psychiatrist, who was a member of the first group in China that started post-traumatic psychological intervention at the end of 20th century, I have collaborated with other Chinese psychologists; our aim has been to identify a more efficient treatment for post-traumatic crisis intervention and recovery. We have been very delighted to learn and embrace EMDR. Since its introduction to China in 2002, EMDR has drawn substantial attention among Chinese mental health professionals. Through persistent effort, along with support and help from Trauma Aid Germany, HAP-German, HAP Europe, EMDRIA and HAP International, we have succeeded in implementing and developing EMDR practice and education. One effect of this movement has been the establishment of the EMDR-China Society, which is affiliated with the Chinese Association for Mental Health Psychotherapy and Psycho-consultation Committee in 2009; its goal has been to promote the process of training, clinical application, post-traumatic aid and research. With its guidance and coordination, EMDR-China psychologists and psychiatrists not only have actively participated in EMDR-Asia Conferences and trainings, including the first and second EMDR–Asia Conferences, but also successfully bid for and will host the Third Asian EMDR meeting in Shanghai. We are determined to promote EMDR training, implementation, and research and contribute to the state of mental and emotional well-being.

Plenary lecture: The Treatment of Dissociative Disorders due to emotional abuse and neglect in childhood

Keynote: Repairing attachment trauma in severely traumatized patients Post-conference workshop: Therapeutic tools for working with trauma and dissociation

This workshop is intended for therapists who already have a basic understanding of trauma informed treatment and who wish to increase their skills in working with more complex issues. First prognostic factors will be explored, with implications for planning treatment. Then, we will demonstrate practical approaches to some of the more challenging treatment issues, such as resistance, dependency and relational avoidance, suicidality, self-harm, boundary problems, and sadomasochism. Participants will learn practical and compassionate ways to understand, recognize and effectively work with resistance, which is best understood as protection. Specific interventions to maintain a collaborative therapeutic relationship with clients that does not evoke overwhelming dependency needs will be demonstrated. Therapists will learn how to accept and process dependency needs in their clients while maintaining healthy boundaries. We will discuss how to work with rage and sadistic tendencies in a safe and containing manner, while managing intense countertransference feelings. Therapists will learn effective strategies to resolve chronic self-harm and suicidality. Video excerpts will be used to demonstrate specific approaches.

This workshop is open only to clinicians who have completed the full EMDR basic training . After many early cautions about the potential dangers of using EMDR with individuals suffering from dissociative disorders, limited proposals have been offered for adapting EMDR procedures to this specific population. In this workshop, clinical case examples and video fragments will be used to illustrate interventions with EMDR for dissociative clients following the “Progressive Approach” (Gonzalez & Mosquera, 2012). The workshop will demonstrate how EMDR clinicians can safely utilize this model to offer a wide range of EMDR interventions beginning early in the preparatory phase of treatment for clients with dissociative disorders. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive model for applying EMDR therapy in the treatment of dissociative disorders, extending the AIP model to address the kinds of dysfunctionally stored information found in those with the most severe forms of traumatization and dissociative phobic avoidance. On Day 1, EMDR therapists will learn to implement specific clinical interventions, based on ‘progressive protocols’ for dissociative disorders. On Day 2, we will explore how to resolve avoidance and distrust, two major roadblocks to successful therapist in patients with Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders. A practical trauma-informed approach that emphasizes the need to identify and work with the individual’s unintegrated inner structural organization as a means to address the root causes of symptoms will be described. Steps for treatment planning and interventions will be illustrated through video examples.