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Development of a Stabilization Tool Kit: The Treatment of Complex PTSD and OSI within the Military, RCMP and Veterans
Presented By: Dr. Stephen Boucher, MB ChB. FRCS, MRCGP, FRCP(C)
Colleen Clark, MSW, RSW
Stacey Ferland, RPC, MPCP
Susan James, MSW, RSW, RMFT
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Please be advised...
• No recording devices allowed out of
respect for client privacy/case studies.
• There will be interview videos with
descriptions of client’s traumatic
experiences.
• No conflict of interest.
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COMPLEXITY IN PTSD
• Carewest Operational Stress Injury
Clinic (OSIC) located in Calgary,
Alberta.
• Treats currently serving and retired
military and RCMP members, as well
as their families.
• 206 active clients (2012).
• Team based.
• Biopsychosocial treatments.
• Empirical Exposure based therapies.
Veterans 61%
Serving Regular
Force CF 6%
Serving Reservist
4%
Ex-RCMP
5%
Serving RCMP 13%
Family Members
11%
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AVERAGE LENGTH OF STAY: 33 MONTHS
• Combat- related PTSD is among the most
refractory psychiatric conditions (Frueh).
• Is it the staff?
• Is it the patients?
• Is it the treatments we use?
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PROLONGED EXPOSURE
• VA/DOD 2010 and IOM 2007; 8-15 sessions.
• 80% veterans clinically significant reduction
in PTSD (Rauch).
• 60% Iraq/Afghan vets , 40% Vietnam Vets no
longer met criteria for PTSD (Yoder).
• Drop out rates of 20-42% (Schnurr).
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EMDR
• VA/DOD 2004, 2010 Evidence based.
• IOM 2008, 2012 insufficient evidence.
• Treatment response modest to significant.
• Drop out rate 18.9% (Hembree, 2003).
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Limitations of SSRI treatment
• VA/DOD recommended treatments 2010.
• Less than 60% response rate to SSRI
therapy.
• 30% decrease in CAPS scores.
• Remission rate [CAPS <20] low 20%.
• Drop out rates as high as 40% sertraline.
Medications can be life saving
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What patients report about empirically based
treatments
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Treatment Resistant Subpopulations
• 34% of 100 OSIC patients--(childhood abuse-including
physical, sexual, emotional and neglect).
• Extreme Emotional Numbing / Hyperarousal / Dysphoria
• Uncontained Addictions, psychiatric co-morbidity, psychosis,
panic disorder.
• Co-morbid medical illness, pain.
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A Vulnerable Sub-Population
• TYPE 2 (Terr, 2003) + TYPE 2 PTSD Sub-population
• Affect dysregulation (van der Kolk et al., 2005).
• Chronic destructive behaviour-self mutilation/eating disorder/drug abuse
etc.
• Alterations in self perception - guilt/shame.
• Distorted relations with others, poor trust.
• Somatization/medical problems.
• Alterations in systems of meaning (Courtois, 2009) - Despair of recovery
• Amnesia and Dissociation.
Childhood Trauma Adult Trauma
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Complex PTSD – OSIC Client Traits
• Difficult to diagnose (Resick et al., 2012).
• Increased co-morbidity and functional impairment (Sugaya et. al,
2012).
• Refractory to conventional PTSD psychotherapy treatment.
• Refractory to medications.
• High attrition rates – Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
and Prolonged Exposure – 15 to 30% (Tuerk et al., 2012, p.3).
• Require prolonged stabilization (“Specialized Stabilization”), trauma
treatment and length of stay (Korn & Leeds, 2002).
• Staged, paced treatment.
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Cumulative adult trauma (RCMP Service)
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Continuum of Adult Trauma Damage
Severe Prolonged Repeated Trauma (Herman)
Captivity, Torture, Genocide
------Complex PTSD
Cumulative Police/Military Trauma
Profound Emotional Numbing
Single incident Military/Police Trauma
Degree of
Psychological
Damage
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Emotional Numbing
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Emotional Numbing [EN] / Dysphoria
• At interview, look for markers for extreme
Emotional Numbing.
• Persistence of emotional dysregulation
(Numbing / Anger / Dysphoria).
• Increased interpersonal and family problems.
• Increased occupational problems.
• Increased Alcohol abuse, smoking.
• Diminished response to exposure & medication
treatment of PTSD.
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Treatment Sequence
• Safety, stabilization, skill building, treatment alliance
• Trauma processing
• Integration and meaning, self and relational development
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Introduction to Cat (RCMP Role Description)
• Refer to Case Study provided
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Early Stage of Treatment for Complex PTSD
• Specialized Stabilization
• Safety and Establishing therapeutic alliance
• Attachment
• Psycho education
• Loss and Grief
• Moral Distress
• Measured by mastery of the necessary skills; not
by duration
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Kitchur’s Strategic Developmental Genogram
• Proposes ALL traumatic events in individual’s life
likely to have impeded developmental progress.
• Identifies attachment patterns underlying current
symptomology.
• Provides comprehensive strategy for identifying
and addressing fixation and developmental
deficits. (Johnson, 2003; Fosha, 2000)
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Developmental Genogram
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Types of Interpersonal Trauma
• Attachment/relational
• Physical and sexual abuse
• Emotional/verbal/bullying/antipathy
• Neglect/non-response or protection
• Layered
• Betrayal
• Secondary / “second injury” / institutional
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Attachment Trauma and Development
• Can effect development starting at the
neuronal level
• “Neurons that fire together wire together”
• Can affect brain structure and function
• Right brain/sensory-motor imprint
• Left brain development impeded
• There may be no words
• Speechless terror
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10 Tenets of Attachment Theory
• Attachment is an innate motivating force.
• Secure dependence complements
autonomy.
• Attachment offers an essential safe haven.
• Attachment offers a secure base.
• Emotional accessibility & responsiveness
builds bonds. (Johnson, 2003b).
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Attachment tenets
• Fear & uncertainty activate attachment
needs.
• Process of separation distress is
predictable.
• Finite number insecure forms of
engagement can be identified.
• Attachment involves working models of self
and others.
• Isolation and loss are inherently
traumatizing.
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ATTACHMENT
• Complex PTSD is the most difficult for
both therapist and clients to manage
(Courtois, 2008; Muller, 2009)
• Especially when the trauma affected some
type of disruption in the client’s early
attachment process.
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Trauma and Development
• Attachment/relational trauma
• Attachment style and Inner Working Model
• Secure
• Insecure
• Disorganized
• Lack of self validation/reflection
• Effect on brain development
• Survival brain vs. Learning brain
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Disorganized Attachment
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Symptoms of early attachment trauma
• Difficulties in the following areas:
• Regulating and/or inability to regulate a variety of internal and external systems, including consciousness, cognition, emotion, arousal
• Behavioural self-management
• Attachment (both intra and interpersonally)
• Existential meaning making (Coutois, 2008; Ford, Courtois, Steele, Van der Hart, & Nijenhuis, 2005).
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Post-trauma Responses and Disorders
• Complex Posttraumatic Stress
Disorder/(DESNOS) “PTSD plus or minus.”
• Related to severe chronic abuse, usually in
childhood, and attachment disturbance.
• Usually highly co-morbid.
• Involves a high degree of dissociation.
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Ego States
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Importance of Specialized Stabilization
• This stage of treatment may be most
important as it is, directly related to the
client’s capacity to function (Courtois)
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Stabilization includes
• Attention to wellness
• Stress Management
• Medical/somatic concerns
• Medications re: antidepressants; anti-
anxiety drugs can be helpful to target
posttraumatic symptoms which can be
associated with depression, anxiety &
sleep disorders.
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Why Use Specialized Stabilization?
• To end emotional dysregulation
• To identify and address emotional numbing
• Prepares client for active trauma therapy
• Builds trust, therapeutic relationship and
repairs attachment issues
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Goals of Specialized Stabilization
1. Address Avoidance
A. Decrease somatic distress
B. Decrease dissociation
C. Address emotional dysregulation (Van Voorhees, et. al, 2012)
D. Address emotional numbing
2. Psycho education
3. Promote identity, self-awareness and self-development
4. Address attachment disturbance and spiritual
alienation (Allen & Lauterbach, 2007)
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Stabilization and Safety
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Engagement, safety and stabilization
• Safety planning, psycho-education
immediate intervention regarding safety
issues (suicidal/homicidal ideation;
addictions; dangerous relationships;basic
needs).
• Therapist container for client – learning
new skills (impulse control; regulating
affect; managing self-destructive thoughts
and behaviours.
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Therapeutic Relationship and Coping
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Therapeutic alliance
• The therapeutic relationship – has the
most empirical support of any “technique”
(as seen in attachment studies; brain
development studies, and therapy
outcome studies).
• Vital with traumatized individuals.
• Vital in interpersonal violence and in
developmental trauma.
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Psychoeducation and Establishing treatment framework
• Psycho Education in complex trauma with
the elements of human response to
trauma provides a foundation for skill
building.
• Education can demystify psychotherapy
• Education about trauma and its impact
may help clients understand their
reactions and develop increased self-
compassion.
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• Teach the client how PTSD stress and
developmental problems are expected
• Identify adaptive reactions to traumatic
experiences in childhood as normal.
• Clients may need to move back and forth
between treatment phases (crisis; refresh
skills or apply; reformulate their safety plan).
• Neurobiological impact of trauma.
Psychoeducation and Establishing treatment framework
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C-PTSD Education and Suicide
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Skills to be developed in stabilization
• Healthy boundaries
• Safety planning
• Assertiveness
• Self-nurturing & Self-Soothing
• Emotional Modulation
• Strategies to contain trauma symptoms
(flashbacks & dissociative episodes)
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Stabilization Toolkit
• Grounding, Mindfulness, Relaxation, Workbooks;
Skillbuilding
• O’Shea EMDR Emotional Regulation for
Hyperarousal
• Emotional Numbing accessing and recovery of
emotions – body awareness
• Women’s Group pre-trauma work
• Expressive therapy
• Therapeutic Process Group – Sandtray
• Couple Work
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Emotional Regulation Processing
• Specialized Stabilization - graduated emotional exposure
• Address both Hyperarousal / Hypoarousal (Emotional
Numbing)
• Promotes proficiency in identifying and tolerating emotions (Johnson, 2003)
• Modified EMDR Model - bi-lateral stimulation adds symbolic
imagery to emotions being processed. Promotes therapy
engagement and success rate (O’Shea, 2009; Kitchur, 2005)
• Space opened for narratives of client self-awareness and
understanding of experiences.
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Emotional Numbing
• Connecting to experience (past, present &
future) focusing on mind and body.
• Focusing on positive emotions and
sensory experience.
• Developmental Genogram; Narrative
Review; Photographs; music; objects;
Mindfulness, expressive arts, journaling.
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Treatment Goals for PTSD
• Restore self-esteem, personal integrity
* normal psychosexual development
* reintegration of the personality
• Restore psychosocial relations
* trust of others
* foster attachment to and connection with
others
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Treatment Principles for Complex Trauma
• Treatment meets standard of care
• Treatment is individualized
• Client empowerment/colloboration
• Safety and protection
• Relationship issues (caring, acceptance,
empathy)
• Informed consent
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The Lighthouse Model of Stabilization
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Rage against the storm
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The Toolkit "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first
step." ~Martin Luther King, Jr
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The hidden toolkit
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Question: How do you cope?
Sadness
Fear
Upsetting
memories
Guilt
Anger
Grief
Shame Criticism
Despair
Loss
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The window of tolerance.
Toolkit
Anger
Panic
Flashbacks
Numbing
Dissociation
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Stabilization Toolkit
• Grounding skills *
• Breathing re-training
• Relaxation exercises/self-soothe strategies
• Bio-feedback
• Mindfulness and meditation (Mindfulness Group) *
• Imagery (container and safe place visualizations) *
• Creative expression (music, art, writing)
• Compassionate mind training exercises
• Emotional regulation techniques and distraction strategies
• Sand Tray Work
• EMDR adapted resourcing/containing work
• Ego state stabilization/parts of self work
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Debbie’s Window of Tolerance
Hyperarousal Flight
Fear and hyper vigilant: “ I can’t be trapped, don’t touch me, I can’t get too close or committed. I need to escape, if I
can’t, I will escape with prescription drugs”
Fight
Anger and injustice: “I won’t trust, I won’t be controlled, I will show you, I will push people away, I will test your
credibility”
Hypoarousal Attach
“ I can’t take care of myself, I’m in danger, please love me, don’t leave me alone”
Emotional numbing
Dissociation and depression increase. “I deserved it, I’m weak and helpless, I feel nothing, I’m detached”
Window of Tolerance
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Debbie’s parts of self
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Grounding, Mindfulness and Imagery
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Grounding
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Grounding Practice – Role play
5,4,3,2,1
Scenario: Debbie has just arrived for session.
• Emotionally triggered by recent altercation with a member of public
prior to coming in for the appointment.
• Presenting with increased hyperarousal
• Intrusive recollections, anger and behavioural dysregulation.
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Mindfulness
• Mindfulness is paying attention, on
purpose, non-judgementally
~ Jon Kabat Zin
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Container and safe place imagery
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Client examples:
Containers • Sea shipping container
• Tool box
• Filing cabinet
• Book
• Steel trunk
• Treasure chest
• Hat box
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Client examples
Safe Place • A beach scene
• A garden scene
• Standing on a mountain top
• A cabin in the woods
• Visualizing colors/patterns
• A clear lake
• Fishing
• Standing behind a waterfall
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Safe Place visualization
• Imagery practice
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Couple Profile: Jim and Christine
• Married seven years
• Two children; 5 year old girl and 3 year old boy
• Jim previously married from 1993 to 1996
• Both partners have had positive childhoods
• Jim is a 25 yr. member of the RCMP
• Christine’s father was an RCMP officer and she
used to work in the civilian IT department for the
RCMP prior to having children.
• Started couples therapy in July 2011
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Marital Issues
• Jim’s intense hyperarousal and its impact on the
family
• Jim’s reactivity to his children’s crying
• Jim’s emotional dysregulation,sense of
hopelessness, and self-criticism
• Lack of emotional connection and validation
• Christine’s minimization of her own needs and
vulnerabilities
• Christine and Jim’s avoidance of marital issues
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Barriers to Treatment
• For the first year, inconsistent marital therapy
appointments
• Lack of childcare and limited resources
• Jim’s level of hyperarousal and low distress
tolerance
• Physical sickness
• Avoidance
• Jim’s difficulty focusing on treatment while
working
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Impact of PTSD on family
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Secondary Traumatization
• Christine becomes emotionally numb.
• She becomes hyperaroused as she
anticipates Jim’s responses.
• Christine’s emotional distress is managed
through avoidance.
• She decreases her communication with
Jim and shuts down emotionally.
• Christine suffers from physical illness,
sleep disruption, and suspiciousness.
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Attachment Styles and Interactional Pattern
• An avoidant attachment style emerges for
both partners
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Self awareness of attachment style
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The Tenets of Attachment Theory
• Attachment is an innate motivating force.
• Secure dependence complements
autonomy.
• Attachment offers an essential safe haven.
• Attachment offers a secure base.
• Emotional accessibility and
responsiveness build bonds.
• Fear and uncertainty activate attachment
needs. Dr. Susan Johnson, 2004
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The Tenets of Attachment Theory
• The process of separation distress is
predictable.
• A finite number of insecure forms of
engagement can be identified.
• Attachment involves working models of
self and other.
• Isolation and loss are inherently
traumatizing. Dr. Susan Johnson, 2004
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Attachment Tracking
• The attachment relationship between the
therapist and the member
• The attachment relationship between the
therapist and the partner
• The couple’s attachment relationship
• How the therapist relates to the couple’s
relationship
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Stabilization
• Interventions are geared towards
improving emotion regulation of the couple
system, ensuring safety (physical and
emotional safety), and decreasing
avoidance.
• Safety is established through the de-
escalation of negative cycles of separation
distress.
• Validation of attachment needs and
processes.
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Interventions
• The therapist works within the couple’s
window of tolerance and attempts to
expand it.
• The creation of new interactions that
restructure the relationship into a more
secure bond (e.g. withdrawer
engagement, blamer softening).
• Repair of attachment injuries and
violations. Dr. Susan Johnson, 2004
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Interventions
• Actively use new interactions to revise
negative models of self that inhibit
emotional engagement with the spouse.
• Consolidation and Integration.
• The goal of therapy is to create a secure
bond. Dr. Susan Johnson, 2004
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Safety and Progress
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Special Considerations for Complex PTSD
• The couple’s therapist needs to liaise with
the individual therapist who is working with
the client.
• Careful assessment of the issue of
possible violence due to loss of affect
regulation (ongoing).
• The need to address how survivor clients
deal with posttraumatic reactions and
feelings.
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Special Considerations Cont’d
• Psychoeducation re: psychological
trauma and its effects.
• Tailoring the goals of therapy and length of
therapy process to the needs of each
couple.
• Therapist Alliance – The therapist must be
accessible and responsive in a
collaborative way with each partner
throughout the therapy process. » Courtois and Ford, 2009
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Partnership, Therapeutic Alliance, and Hope
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Special Considerations Cont’d
• Both technique and relationship are
important influences on outcome.
• The quality of the therapeutic relationship
is of central concern.
• The therapy relationship is the catalyst for
change. Courtois and Ford, 2009
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Special Considerations Cont’d
• Individual sessions for the spouse/partner
that is focused on psychoeducation, self-
care, and increasing her resources.
• These sessions are opportunities to
enhance the therapeutic alliance through
attunement and can create a safe haven.
• Individual treatment for the spouse.
• The need to liase with the individual
therapist who is working with the spouse.
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Special Considerations Cont’d
• Often times, spouses will not access
individual treatment due to:
• The limited number of sessions covered
by insurance
• The partner’s therapist’s lack of
understanding of Complex PTSD
diagnosis (e.g. Suggesting the spouse
should leave the relationship)
• The difficulty working as a team with a
community based therapist.
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Special Considerations
• The course of treatment is non-linear. The
de-escalation phase will be revisited.
However, the frequency and intensity of
the escalation is variable and often
resolved more quickly over time.
• Returning to the de-escalation phase in
couple’s therapy must not be viewed as
therapy/client failure given that the
individual client will alternate between
stabilization and active trauma Tx.
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Panel Discussion
Questions?
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