Engaging teen's protective parts to reprocess traumatic memories

A teens' use of dissociative strategies has a profound influence on attachment, affect regulation, behavior control, and cognition. This workshop will describe how protective parts appear hostile and aggressive at home, school and community and how they attempt to torpedo therapeutic treatment through violent or destructive actions to themselves, caregivers, and the therapist. Specialized interventions are required for successful treatment that addresses such disturbing and disruptive symptoms that are encapsulated in dissociation. Participants will learn how to utilize curiosity to engage protective parts with creative interventions and help the internal system collaborate as a team so that the client can desensitize early childhood traumatic memories. The workshop will include two transcripts of case examples: one which includes a school-based client and the other includes the involvement of caregivers. Both will illustrate parts dialogue and cooperation within the internal system and how this leads to reprocessing traumatic memories.

Conference

English

Annie Monaco
Erin Hassall

Monaco, A., & Hassall, E. (2023, August). Engaging teen's protective parts to reprocess traumatic memories. Presentation at the at the 28th EMDR International Association Conference, Arlington, VA