Full Description
Working with Dissociation in Clinical Practice brings together current literature and the contributing authors' professional and lived experiences to provide practical recommendations for supporting the mental health and wellbeing of individuals with dissociative difficulties.
Readers will benefit from learning how to apply this advice for best practice to a range of settings and client groups, ensuring more positive service user outcomes. Written in dialogue between experts-by-training and experts-by-experience, this essential edited volume covers practical strategies for practitioners working with dissociative clients. Authors address areas such as common misconceptions, assessment, co-morbidity, risk management and providing care and therapy within a trauma-informed and multi-disciplinary context. The book further explores support for dissociation within more specialist clinical areas, tailoring guidance to a range of client groups including, children, older people, those with learning disabilities, and those in forensic settings. It provides guidance for health systems and organisations to become more dissociation aware, within exisiting frameworks for trauma-informed care.
This book is a compelling read for clinical psychologists, other psychological and mental health practitioners, people with lived experience of dissociative difficulties and those who support them.
Contents
Section 1: Core Knowledge and Skills in Working with Trauma-Related Dissociation. 1. Understanding Trauma-Related Dissociation 2.Screening and Assessment of Dissociation 3. The Multidisciplinary Context of Care for People with Dissociative Difficulties 4. Psychological Therapy for Complex Dissociation 5. Dissociation: Working with Children and Adolescents 6. Establishing Safeness. Working with Safety Concerns and Trauma- Related Dissociation 7.Dissociation and Co-Morbid Complexity: Psychosis, Autism and OCD Section 2: Dissociation-Informed Care for Specialist Populations and Contexts 8. Dissociation and Physical Health 9. Dissociation in the Perinatal Context - Meeting the Needs of Mothers and Babies 10. Dissociation and People with a Learning Disability 11. Dissociation in Older People 12. Dissociation and Eating Disorders 13. Dissociation, Harmfulness and Violence: Altered States of Consciousness as Offence-Related Factors 14. Working with Trauma-based Dissociation in Independent Practice Section 3: Dissociation-Informed Practice - Consolidating Change 15.Cross-Cultural Considerations and Culturally Informed Practice with Trauma-Related Dissociation 16.Considerations for Service Leads, Commissioners and Organizations 17. Towards a Training and Competency Framework for Mental Health Professionals Working with Trauma-Based Dissociation 18. Epilogue: "Do No Harm" - A Lived Experience Perspective
