Posts in Complex PTSD
Video 056 Reverse Protocol
Video 056 Reverse Protocol

What this is about: The case is about a man in his forties who has lost his family and career. He experiences extreme dysregulation, suicidal thoughts and an inability to make sustained relationships. He has a childhood of extreme neglect and abuse. The defining condition is a lack of any hope of change or relief in the future. He is unable to contemplate dealing with past and current traumas.

What you will learn: How to work, first with the future loss of hope using the standard EMDR protocol. You will also learn how to use aspects of Brief Solution Focused Therapy to create a hopeful future, if the client is unable to do so himself. This hopeful future will become the target in this first phase of the three-part therapeutic journey.

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Complex PTSDRichard Worthing-DaviesComment
Video 040 Co-constructing a hypothetical ‘ideal’ parent
Video 040 Co-constructing a hypothetical ‘ideal’ parent

This is about Tom, a young man brought up in a dysfunctional family: an alcoholic mother and a controlling, sometimes violent, father who would belittle him for showing a desire to learn and do well in school.  Tom grew up with a sense of being rejected by his family and carried thoughts of being ’bad’ and ‘shameful’. These became particularly troublesome after Tom developed a serious interest in a fellow student at university.  He found himself holding back from the relationship, scared that she might reject him when she found out what a ‘bad’ person he was.

What you will learn:

The video demonstrates how Tom’s damaging and pervasive attachment experiences with his mother and father can be repaired and reversed through rewiring his thought patterns.  The video shows how the therapist and Tom co-construct and install an alternative reality - a hypothetical ‘ideal’ mother as a resource.  In turn, this led to new neural pathways that changed the way he felt about himself and how he related to others.

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Complex PTSD, Standard Protocol & AdaptionsRichard Worthing-DaviesComment
Video 001 Dealing with dissociation - CIPOS with BHS
Video 001 Dealing with dissociation - CIPOS with BHS

Case of woman with history of childhood physical and emotional abuse. Video shows how to work safely when there is a high risk of dissociation, which can lead a client to lose contact with the present moment and be caught up in the past when asked to describe or focus on a traumatic event.

What you will learn
How to use CIPOS (Constant installation of present orientation and safety) and BHS (Back of the head scale) when risk of dissociation is high.

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Dissociation, Complex PTSDRichard Worthing-DaviesComment
Video 002 Targeting trauma held by one part of the personality
Video 002 Targeting trauma held by one part of the personality

Case of woman with history of childhood physical and emotional abuse. Video shows a Phase 3 Assessment with a dissociative client, stabilised with CIPOS and BHS, when the trauma is held by a part of the personality.

What you will learn

How to do a Phase 3 Assessment with a dissociative client when the trauma is held by a part of the personality. Phase 4, Desensitisation, follows.

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Dissociation, Complex PTSDRichard Worthing-DaviesComment
Video 078 (PT 1.4) NAW
Video 078 (PT 1.4) NAW

NAW stands for Notice, Acknowledge and Welcome. It’s a technique borrowed from sensorimotor psychotherapy to address psychological and physically experienced pain and in this application is incorporated into the standard EMDR protocol. This video shows two case examples. In the first, a 40 year old woman experienced lots of pain during the stabilization phase of the work with her therapist.

What you will learn

How to use this technique with a step by step protocol, and understand the basic mechanism that leads to pain relief.

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Blocked processing, Complex PTSDRichard Worthing-DaviesComment