Course

Unlocking Healing: Weaving Together Family Therapy and EMDR with the Dissociative Child 

This workshop describes core symptoms of dissociation, and how these can overlap with other disorders, and how protective parts appear hostile and aggressive at home, school and community, provide specialized interventions with children with dissociation that can be incorporated into treatment modalities, such as expressive arts, family therapy and EMDR.

Format

Recorded Asynchronous Online Course

Duration

2.75 Hours

Presenters

Annie Monaco, LCSW-R, RPTS & Danyale Weems, LCSW, RPTS

Prices

$120

General Price

$60

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About

Course Description

Child and adolescent therapists find it challenging to integrate EMDR therapy with complex cases and are often at loss when treating attachment wounds and managing dissociative symptoms. Dissociation is often misunderstood or unrecognized in its impact on traumatized children who have an array of more commonly recognized symptoms that become the diagnostic focus. It is imperative that children with complex trauma receive effective treatment early in their lives before their symptoms reach an apex necessitating hospitalizations, residential placements, or ruptured home placements. A child’s use of dissociative strategies has a profound influence on attachment, affect regulation, behavior control, cognition. This workshop will describe core symptoms of dissociation, and how these can overlap with other disorders. This workshop will describe how protective parts appear hostile and aggressive at home, school and community; and provide specialized interventions with children with dissociation that can be incorporated into treatment modalities, such as expressive arts, family therapy and EMDR. 

Course was originally recorded on August 23, 2024

*Disclaimer: Please note this video contains difficult subject matters related to children and trauma.

Intended Audience

Mental Health Clinicians and anyone currently practicing EMDR therapy (psychologists, counselors, social workers, etc.). This course is appropriate for post-doctoral graduates and clinicians with advanced knowledge of various therapeutic treatment modalities and theoretical orientations.

 Only EMDR trained clinicians can obtain EMDRIA Credits.  

EMDRIA and CE's credits

3 EMDRIA Credits (Included in course price). CE credits are not offered for this course at this time. Please click here to see the information and instructions on how to obtain your credits/certificates of attendance. 

Skill Level of Audience

Intermediate/Advance

Course Outline

Minutes 0-30
Minutes 31-60
Minutes1:00:01-1:30:00
Minutes 1:30:01-2:00:00
Minutes 2:00:01-2:30:00
Minutes 2:30:01-3:00:00
Covers slide 1 to 28: Introduction, Learning Objectives, Playful EMDR and effective models with Children, Definition of Dissociation and symptoms and behaviors seen in children and how to diagnose. 
Slides 28- 53 Developmental deeds and how they are met by caregivers. Discussion on parts, self-states, and ways they appear. Discussion on Phase 2 preparation that will assist in moving to active EMDR reprocessing phases. Presenters Begin to introduce and share a case example. 
Slides 55- 68 Presenters continue to discuss the case example. How to use a story of difficult things happen with case example with Danyale’s case example.
Slides 69- Danyale’s Case example continued. Video of Annie’s Case exploring parts with client. 
Annie’s case continued with discussion. Working to keep kids engaged during parts work and checking in with parts during the therapy process.
Completion of Annie’s Case Video and Discussion of SUDS with parts work with children and adolescents. Discussion of lingering issues.  Completion of the slides, and ends with Q&A.

Learning Objectives

Describe 2 ways to differentiate dissociative symptoms from other disorders in children and teens.
Identify 2 strategies that work effectively with angry and hostile self-states to resolve traumatic experiences and reduce violent behaviors.
Describe 2 ways to integrate somatic and sensory resources to decrease dissociative episodes in and out of the therapy room during treatment.
Annie Monaco, LCSW-R, RPTS 
Meet the instructor

Annie Monaco, LCSW-R, RPTS 

Registered Play Therapist, Member of the Association for Play Therapy, EMDR International Association (EMDRIA), Child Trauma Institute and Trauma Institute.

Annie Monaco is a New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Play Therapist and a faculty member of the Child Trauma Institute & Trauma Institute. Annie travels throughout the US and internationally providing a multitude of trauma-informed trainings and agency and therapist consultation. Annie is an EMDRIA approved trainer of EMDR, Progressive Counting and STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resiliency). Annie provides specialty trainings on attachment, dissociation, and EMDR with children & teens. Annie is the co-editor and contributor of chapters for EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room, an integrated approach (2020). 
Danyale Weems, LCSW, RPTS
Meet the instructor

Danyale Weems, LCSW, RPTS

Waves Counseling Services, LLC, Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, EMDR International Association (EMDRIA). 

Danyale Weems owns a private group practice in rural Georgia where she specializes in treating children, adolescents, and adults with trauma and neurodevelopment disorders. She has over 18+ years of experience. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Registered Play Therapist Supervisor (RPTS), AutPlay Certified, nationally certified in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). She is currently a Consultant in Training for EMDR. She has presented for the GA NASW, GA LPCA, AL Play Therapy State Conference, University of West Georgia and other local agencies 

Frequently Asked Questions

Cancellations

There are no cancelations/refunds for any distance learning courses.

Grievances

Grievances can be sent in writing by email to registration@emdrhap.org and will be handled within 10 business days.

Trauma Recovery, EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs (Trauma Recovery/HAP) 
is fully committed to conducting all activities in strict conformance with all our public facing and internal and accreditation grievance policies. Trauma Recovery/HAP will comply with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be non-discriminatory in promotional activities, program content, and in the treatment of program participants. 

The monitoring and assessment of compliance with these standards will be the responsibility of the Education Chair/Continuing Education Director in consultation with the member of the continuing education committee (Trauma Recovery/HAP Training Operations Team), the Trauma Recovery/HAP's Ethics Chairperson and the Convention/Conference Chairperson.

While Trauma Recovery/HAP goes to great lengths to assure fair treatment for all participant and attempts to anticipate problems, there will be occasional issues which come to the attention of the convention staff or an officer of Trauma Recovery/HAP. This procedural description serves as a guideline for handling such grievances.

When a participant, either orally or in written format, files a grievance or expects action on the complaint, the following actions will be taken. If the grievance concerns a speaker, the content presented by the speaker, or the style of presentation, the individual filing the grievance will be asked to express their comments in written format. The Educational Chair/Continuing Education Director will then pass on the comment to the speaker, assuring the confidentiality of the aggrieved individual.
If the grievance concerns a workshop offering, its content, level of presentation, or the facilities in which the workshop was offered, the Convention/Conference Chairperson will mediate and will be the final arbitrator. If the participant requests action, the Convention/Conference Chairperson will:
2a) attempt to move the participant to another workshop.
2b) provide a credit for a future workshop or on-demand course equally valued;
2c) or provide a partial or full refund of the workshop fee.
**Actions 2b and 2c require written notes documenting the grievance for record keeping purposes. Either note need not be signed by the aggrieved individual.

If the grievance concerns Trauma Recovery/HAP CE program in a specific regard, the CE Educational Chair/Continuing Education Director will attempt to arbitrate and will engage the Clinical Consultant team and when necessary, the executive Director. When the grievance is filed by a social worker, the Social Worker Consultant will be involved in the investigation and resolution of all grievance. If further escalation is necessary, the grievance will be sent directly to the Board President.

Contact: Anna Riedel, CE Director
Email: registration@emdrhap.org
Telephone number: (203) 288 4450
Address: 80 Garden Center, Suite 200, Broomfield, CO 80020

Trademark Restrictions Purchasing / Showing content to others

** Please note** this distance learning course was given ownership from the presenters, Annie Monaco & Danyale Weems, to Trauma Recovery/HAP and it cannot be used for resale and only should be viewed by the purchaser.

** HIPAA Regulations: Please note that this course may contain protected health information (PHI). Any unauthorized use or disclosure of this PHI is strictly prohibited, this includes recording and/or reproducing any part of this training video. This video presentation contains videos of clients and case discussions. The presenter has received permission to use the videos to assist in the education and training of clinical professionals who must comply with confidentiality standards.  

ADA assistance

Facilities used by Trauma Recovery/HAP for in-person training events are ADA compliant. Should you need any special accommodations (ADA) for an in-person training event, please contact Trauma Recovery/HAP staff at info@emdrhap.org at least 10 business days prior to the start of the training event. On-demand courses with videos offer closed captioning. If you encounter any inaccuracies or synchronization issues with the closed captioning, please contact associate@emdrhap.org.

How to obtain your credits/certificates

CE and EMDRIA CEU Info for Trauma Recovery: EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs (Trauma Recovery/HAP) LearnWorlds Courses Certificates are awarded online after completion of the workshop. To receive your Continuing Education (CEs) and EMDRIA CEUs, complete the entire course, the post-test, and evaluation.
***Only one recipient per course purchase will be given CEs and EMDRIA CEUs. Multiple CEs and EMDRIA CEUs will not be given to groups who purchase one-course viewing.




Please contact info@emdrhap.org or (203)-288-4450 with questions about this course.