Finding Solid Ground by Stabilizing Prior to Doing EMDR with Complex Dissociative Clients: An Interview with Dr Bethany Brand
“Finding Solid Ground“ by Stabilizing Prior to Doing EMDR with Complex Dissociative Clients:
An Interview with Dr Bethany Brand, Primary Investigator of World’s Largest Ever Treatment Outcome Study for DID
Instructor: Sandra Paulsen, Ph.D.
Approved for 1.5 Hours of CE Credit
Fulfills License Requirements
Program Description:
No one knows better than EMDR therapists the risks of doing premature trauma processing with highly dissociative clients. Stabiization has long been emphasized (e.g., Shapiro, 2015), as necessary during Phase II preparation prior to Phase IV Desensitization work. However, until now, there has been no controlled study addressing what that preparation should consist of, in what sequence, and whether it works. Now we know.
In this interview, Dr Bethany Brand discusses the eight modules in her Finding Solid Ground study involving clinicians and clients around the world, following a programmatic and manualized stepwise approach. Illustrating the modules with Dr Paulsen’s original cartoons, to the mirth of Dr Brand, Additionally, the two discuss the exclusion of, and role of, parts work in treatment of this complex population. Dr Paulsen adds her own commentary after the interview to tie parts work together with Dr Brand’s findings.
Goals & Objectives:
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Identify the eight phases of stabilization reflected in the modules of Finding Common Ground.
- Describe ways that parts work can be stabilizing or destabilizing.
