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Working With Ritual Abuse Survivors: Patterns and Challenges

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About the Course

There are several patterns and behaviors that are common in survivors of ritualized abuse, and these show up in therapy in ways that impact treatment and the therapeutic relationship. Being able to identify those common themes helps both therapist and client see both the adaptive value in them, and how they need to change to allow the client to become self-empowered and free. This workshop focuses on identifying those common patterns and behaviors, and how they need to evolve.

This course is based on the recorded webinar, Working With Ritual Abuse Survivors: Patterns and Challenges created by Lynette Danylchuk, PhD in 2017.

Publication Details

Publication Date: October 6th, 2017

Presenter

Lynette Danylchuk, PhD

Lynette Danylchuk, PhD, has recently finished her term as President of The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). She has also been the Director of ISSTD's Professional Training Program, and Co-chair of ISSTD's Center for Advanced Studies in Trauma and Dissociation Certificate Program, the gold standard in trauma training for complex PTSD and dissociation. Under her leadership, the ISSTD Professional Training Program expanded to include a greater focus on Child and Adolescent courses, and an expansion of the program to South America and Spain as well as online. Lynette has worked in the trauma field since mid-80's, focused mainly on people with complex trauma and dissociative diagnoses. She continues to do consultation and teaching where she sees a need, including a local graduate school, juvenile hall, or the county trauma-informed services conference. Lynette has given keynote speeches and workshops internationally.

Lynette Danylchuk, PhD authored the material only, and was not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

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Target Audience

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about common patterns of the survivors of ritual abuse. It is appropriate for all levels of participants' knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Identify at least three patterns common to ritual abuse survivors.
  2. 2 Identify how the ritual aspect of trauma intensifies the experience and adds to the difficulty of healing.
  3. 3 Identify the most common role reenactments that emerge in therapy.

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