Live interactive meeting ·

Trauma, Dissociation, and Psychosis: CBT and Other Approaches to Understanding and Recovery

with Ron Unger, LCSW

A large number of studies now provide strong evidence that psychosis is often an understandable reaction to trauma, abuse, and other difficult life experiences. This training will introduce you to a science based yet humanistic conceptualization of extreme human experiences that can be related to trauma, and will demonstrate how to help people change their relationship with these experiences, for

Target Audience

This educational activity is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and MFT's. It may also be of interest to others, including family members and people with lived experience of psychosis.
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Meet the speaker

Portrait of Ron Unger, LCSW
Ron Unger, LCSW

Ron Unger works as a therapist and therapy consultant, practicing in Eugene Oregon. For the past 23 years he has also worked as an educator, providing seminars on CBT for psychosis and related topics that have reached thousands of people across the United States and internationally. In cooperation with organizations like ISPS and Mad in America, he has organized and hosted webinars with leaders in the field of therapy for psychosis; recordings of many of these can be found on his youtube channel, youtube.com/c/RonUnger. His website is recoveryfrompsychosis.org.

By the end of this session, you'll be able to

1

Identify three possible interrelationships between trauma, dissociation, and psychosis, including ways that psychosis itself, and reactions to psychosis by others, can be traumatizing.

2

Describe a possible causal route from trauma to psychotic experiences, and describe the role of dissociation within that process.

3

Plan to integrate CBT for psychosis with various trauma therapies to effectively treat clients who have experienced both trauma and psychosis.

4

Demonstrate a collaborative approach to helping clients develop coherent and compassionate stories of trauma and recovery which provide an alternative to both fragmented “psychotic” stories, and to helplessness-inducing “mental illness” stories..

5

Discuss the function of the fear of feeling safe, its role in paranoid reactions, and the implications for treatment

6

Discuss barriers to addressing trauma within treatment for psychosis, and approaches to overcoming those barriers

Session agenda

8:30-9:00:  Overview of research revealing connections between trauma and psychosis

9:00-9:30:  Review of the effects of failing to address trauma in the treatment of psychosis

9:30-10:15:  Essential considerations for therapy when trauma and psychosis are intertwined

10:15 - 10:30: Break

10:30- 11:00:  Rebuilding a narrative

11:00-12:00:  Working with dissociation

  • Evidence for the role of trauma related dissociation within psychosis

  • Addressing dissociative experiences within therapy

12:00-12:45:  Techniques to address and overcome trauma related polarization

CE Info

4
CE credit hours

Live interactive meeting · 4 hours 15 minutes

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Refund

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$89 · 4 CE credit hours · Friday, Mar 12, 2027 · 8:30 AM – 12:45 PM PDT

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