Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists

This training manual for patients who have a trauma-related dissociative disorder includes short educational pieces, homework sheets, and exercises that address ways in which dissociation interferes with essential emotional and life skills, and support inner communication and collaboration with dissociative parts of the personality.

Topics include understanding dissociation and PTSD, using inner reflection, emotion regulation, coping with dissociative problems related to triggers and traumatic memories, resolving sleep problems related to dissociation, coping with relational difficulties, and help with many other difficulties with daily life.

The manual can be used in individual therapy or structured groups.

Author: Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele, Onno Van Der Hart
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/28/2011
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.47lbs
Size: 9.89h x 7.89w x 1.08d
ISBN: 9780393706468

About the Author
Boon, Suzette: - Suzette Boon, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist working in private practice in Maarssen, the Netherlands. She was the co-founder and first President of the European Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.

Steele, Kathy: - Kathy Steele, MN, CS, is in private practice with Metropolitan Psychotherapy Associates in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a former President of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation.

Hart, Onno Van Der: - Onno van der Hart, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Psychopathology of Chronic Traumatization, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, and a psychologist / psychotherapist in private practice in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is a Past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS).