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Deborah Korn

Ego Strengthening and Resource Development in the Treatment of Trauma Survivors
July 21-25

This workshop offers a conceptual framework and a practical approach to working with clients in the early stages of trauma treatment. These clients often present with some of the following characteristics:

  • suicidality, self-injury, and addictive behaviors
  • phobia of affects, somatic experience, attachment, and traumatic memories
  • rigid defenses and overdeveloped avoidance patterns
  • pervasive fears and blocking beliefs
  • strong dissociative tendencies and symptoms
  • emotional dysregulation marked by alternating hyperarousal and hypoarousal
  • inability to access and stay grounded in an "adult" ego state
  • inability to access and maintain resources essential for effective trauma processing (e.g. compassion for self, curiosity, courage)
A broad range of resource development and ego-strengthening approaches/protocols will be introduced through live demonstrations or videotape presentations. Attention will be devoted to assessing the developmental and attachment needs of the client, establishing a useful case conceptualization, and developing an integrated treatment plan with achievable goals. Guidelines for decision-making and evaluating readiness for trauma processing will be reviewed. The model proposed in this workshop acknowledges the strengths, competencies, and survival resources inherent in each person. Interventions are designed to honor and deepen existing resources while simultaneously introducing new skills and resources where developmental deficits or maladaptive patterns are found. This workshop is open to all clinicians.

Monday

  • Assessment of Symptoms and Deficits, Schemas, Unmet Needs, Resources and Self-capacities
  • Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning
  • Incorporating Concepts and Strategies from Various Psychotherapeutic Approaches (CBT, Hypnosis, EMDR, IFS, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, DBT)

    Tuesday

  • Addressing Defenses and Avoidance Patterns
  • Decreasing Phobias of Affect, Attachment, Somatic Experience, and Traumatic Memories
  • Development of Affect Tolerance and Management Skills
  • Targeting Core Resources: Boundaries, Self-soothing and Relaxation, Containment, Grounding, Distancing, Modulation/Titration, Object Constancy, Compassion and Self-acceptance, Mindfulness

    Wednesday

  • Resource Development Concepts/Protocols
  • Common Blocking Beliefs Encountered during Resource Development
  • Ego State Work to Shift Blocking Beliefs and Facilitate Ego-strengthening
  • Exploring Potential Sources for Resources
  • Practicum, Demonstration, or Videotape Presentation

    Thursday

  • Special Considerations in Working with Dissociative Clients
  • Factors to Consider in Choosing Resource Development/Ego-strengthening Strategies
  • Using the Therapeutic Relationship as a Primary Resource
  • Videotape Presentation

    Friday

  • Developing Somatic Resources and Self-regulation
  • Working with Hyperarousal/Hypoarousal
  • Physician Heal Thyself: Self-care and Resources for Therapists

    For those trained in EMDR and seeking an EMDRIA approved program, please note that application has been made for EMDRIA credits. This course will address the Preparation Phase of EMDR treatment and will incorporate instruction and demonstration in EMDR Resource Development and Installation.

    Deborah L. Korn, Psy.D., maintains a private practice and serves as a faculty member at the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute in Boston. She has been on the faculty of the EMDR Institute for the past 14 years. She is a co-investigator in an NIMH-funded study of EMDR vs. Prozac in the treatment of PTSD with Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., and the author of "Preliminary Evidence of Efficacy for EMDR Resource Development and Installation in the Stabilization Phase of Treatment of Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder" in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Korn is an EMDRIA-approved consultant in EMDR, a member of the EMDRIA Clinical Advisory Board and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research. She presents and consults internationally on the treatment of adult survivors of childhood abuse and neglect and various other trauma-related topics. She has been a regular presenter at the EMDR International Association Conference and was invited to present EMDRIA's first "EMDR Masters Series". Dr. Korn is widely regarded as a highly skilled clinician and excellent teacher with an engaging and warm style.

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