When Your Client Dissociates
Handling the Emergency and Navigating the Road Back
By Joyanna Silberg - Working with dissociative children can be unnerving. As important as it is to have a theoretical understanding of what’s happening, a clinician needs a pragmatic, strength-based, problem-solving focus to feel prepared to treat such entrenched dissociative reactions.
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Case Study
Treating the Dissociative Child: The Road Back from the Ultimate Loss of Self
Few cases offer as eerie a therapeutic challenge as a suddenly noncommunicative child, lost in a dissociative shutdown.
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When Your Client Dissociates
Handling the Emergency and Navigating the Road Back
By Joyanna Silberg - Working with dissociative children can be unnerving. As important as it is to have a theoretical understanding of what’s happening, a clinician needs a pragmatic, strength-based, problem-solving focus to feel prepared to treat such entrenched dissociative reactions.
Daily Blog
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Case Study
Treating the Dissociative Child: The Road Back from the Ultimate Loss of Self
Few cases offer as eerie a therapeutic challenge as a suddenly noncommunicative child, lost in a dissociative shutdown.
Magazine Article
Page 1 of 1
Joyanna Silberg, Ph.D., consulting psychologist at Sheppard Pratt Health System, is the author of The Child Survivor: Healing Developmental Trauma and Dissociation. She's the past president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
