The Missing Link in Treating the Full Spectrum of Developmental Trauma Covers the Often Missed but Crucial Four Later Stages of Development.
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8 Clinical Demonstrations. On-demand, online course
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Linking Your Client’s Presenting Issues to Underlying Developmental Traumas
We all have clients who suffer from the following:
- Fear and shame of their power, perfectionism, black-and-white thinking, being judgmental or taking excess responsibility.
- Shame or fear about their love or sexuality, inability to be both romantic and sexual with the same person, getting repeatedly involved in triangles as the third wheel, and unable to find fulfilling same-gender friendships.
- Difficulty forming, expressing, arguing, and standing up for their opinions, norms, and values or being too opinionated and alienating others.
- Shame, inadequacy, alienation, and loneliness that result from difficulties in doing their best in groups or from pressure of having to be the best in all situations all the time.
These Symptoms are Often Caused by Developmental Traumas from the Four Later Stages of Development
The above symptoms are often caused by developmental traumas from the four later stages of development: Will, Love/Sexuality, Opinion, and Solidarity/Performance. In each stage of development, a child is learning and imprinting foundational experiences that determine its adult capabilities for relating to oneself and others. Developmental, shock, and complex traumas that adults experience as children in these critical stages of later development can become the basis of attachment, relationship, and professional difficulties throughout one’s life.
Please click here for a complete list of all possible issues from each stage of development.
In this comprehensive developmental trauma course with 8 demonstrations, I will describe and demonstrate how to identify and work with the difficulty in each stage precisely and effectively through the practice of embodying emotions from Integral Somatic Psychology™ (ISP™).
We’ll introduce clinical strategies of interpersonal resonance and emotional embodiment from Integral Somatic Psychology™ (ISP™). ISP is grounded in modern science and has a priori scientific validity. We will provide you with a science-backed understanding of how the body is involved in different psychological processes—not just trauma—and why it is important to include the body in your work to improve outcomes and treatment times in all modalities in your toolkit.
Learn to Diagnose and Treat Developmental Traumas with Precision
Clients come to us with presenting problems that have their roots in childhood. We often try to find the roots in our client’s histories, but this can be difficult. Our clients often do not have relevant memories, as early childhood memories are hard to retrieve.
To overcome this problem, I developed a powerful Diagnostic Aid. Using my approach, you will learn how to precisely link a client’s problem to a specific developmental trauma in a particular stage of development to treat it accurately, quickly, and effectively.
Knowing the root cause of developmental trauma can help you resolve the problem.
In this course, we will break down the four later stages of development, the possible developmental traumas in each stage, and how to effectively resolve your client’s corresponding presenting difficulties.
We will use the practice of embodying emotions from Integral Somatic Psychology™ to shorten treatment times and improve outcomes in all therapies.
Download a Powerful Diagnostic Aid
To help you get started, download a powerful Diagnostic Aid to identify the specific developmental traumas your clients are suffering from and match them to the developmental stage in which they occurred.
Download a sample here: Diagnostic Aid for Developmental Trauma from the Later Stages of Development
Your Course Includes:
- 8 clinical demonstrations
- Lectures on developmental trauma in the later stages of development
- A powerful diagnostic aid
- Full lifetime access
This course is part of a series of 3 Developmental Trauma Courses:
- Developmental Trauma Course: Prenatal and Perinatal Stages
- Developmental Trauma Course: Early Developmental Stages
- This course, Developmental Trauma Course: Later Developmental Stages
You can take the courses in any order. Together, they cover the entire developmental trauma spectrum.
7 Easy-to-Implement (but Essential) Developmental Trauma Strategies
I have 7 easy-to-implement (but essential) strategies for resolving developmental traumas that you can implement ASAP. We are going to break down the four later stages of development, the specific traumas possible in each, and how to resolve your client’s corresponding presenting difficulties effectively.
You Will Learn How To…
- Identify and work with developmental, shock, and complex traumas in the later four stages of childhood development
- Identify and work with the specific developmental difficulty and the corresponding developmental stage in the client’s presenting symptom
- Improve your work with different attachment styles by understanding how different developmental traumas can affect attachment styles
- Improve your work with your clients by learning defensive character structures caused by developmental traumas in different stages of development
- Work with complex traumas characterized by high levels of intense emotions accompanied by high levels of stress and dysregulation
- Help your clients work through extremely difficult emotional experiences and improve their cognition and behavior
- Improve your ability to regulate your client emotionally through embodied emotional attunement
- Apply the practice of embodying emotions to your work with relationship, attachment, as well as work-related difficulties
Who can Benefit from this Developmental Trauma Course?
All mental health professionals engaged in treating relationship, attachment, and work difficulties caused by developmental and shock traumas stand to gain much from this course. This includes graduates and students of Somatic Experiencing® (SE™).
If you are an Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) graduate or trainee, you will gain advanced knowledge and develop specific skills for applying your ISP expertise to the specific areas of trauma, development, and attachment from different stages of childhood development.
How Your Client’s Presenting Issues Relate to Developmental Traumas in the Four Later Stages of Childhood Development
In each stage of its development, a child is learning and imprinting foundational experiences that determine its adult capabilities for relating to oneself and others. Developmental, shock, and complex traumas that adults experienced as a child in these critical stages of later development can become the basis of attachment, relationship, and professional difficulties throughout one’s life.
Will Developmental Stage (2 to 4 years)
In the Will developmental stage, the child needs support to embody its growing power and intense emotions and develop its capacity to do increasingly complex tasks while grasping its limitations. Developmental or shock traumas in this stage will stifle their development.
As an adult, they are not able to…
- Feel and keep one’s power even in adverse conditions
- Access and hold anger, power, and strength as needed
- Set boundaries and maintain them
- Plan and complete age-appropriate complex tasks that have many steps and take time
- Take pride in one’s accomplishments
- Feel a strong sense of self, one’s will, and separation from others
- Persist and complete tasks despite setbacks and failure
- Change one’s ways of doing things if current ways do not work
- Take in others’ suggestions for doing things
- Just be and not do, feel ok about oneself when one is not doing anything
- Work well in small groups
- Engage in necessary (healthy) conflicts
- Have confidence and trust in one’s ability to plan and do things, one’s agency
- Maintain self-esteem and self-worth when there are setbacks or failures
- Bounce back from failures and setbacks without collapsing for a long time
- Accept one’s limitations and failures is part of being human
- Take appropriate responsibility and not be overly responsible and burdened
- Appreciate others’ share of responsibility in personal and professional situations
- Feel and contain strong or intense emotions such as passion and anger
- Feel opposite emotions, such as love and hate or like and dislike, towards the same person
- Have a good sense of one’s strengths and weaknesses
- Separate reality from fantasy, such as one is omnipotent
Love/Sexuality Stage of Development (from 3 to 6 years)
In the Love/Sexuality developmental stage, the child requires understanding and support to experience and develop its budding capacities for romantic love and sexuality in developmentally appropriate ways. If the child experienced developmental trauma or shock traumas in this stage, as an adult, they are not able to…
- Love another romantically
- Be sexual with another
- Romantically love and be sexual with the same person
- Have a good relationship with the parent of the same gender
- Have same-gender friends
- Identify with one’s gender
- Form and maintain long-term monogamous romantic and sexual relationships
- Not having resolved the Oedipal issues with one’s parents
Opinion Stage of Development (from 5 to 10 years)
In the Opinion developmental stage, the child depends on support from others to develop its ability to form, express, argue, and stand up for its opinions, norms, and values. Developmental or shock traumas in this stage will hamper their development.
As an adult, they are not able to…
- Support one’s opinions with facts, logic, and reasoning
- Hold onto one’s opinions when people and situations have differing opinions
- Change one’s opinions when presented with fact, logic, and reasoning to the contrary
- Understand the importance of having a core set of rules, norms, and values one lives one’s life by
- Understand that different people and situations might have different rules, norms, and values that govern their lives
- Tolerate other people and situations having differing opinions, rules, norms, and values
Solidarity/Performance Stage of Development (from 7 to 12 years)
In the Solidarity/Performance developmental stage, the child depends on support and encouragement from others to develop its ability to compete and be its best in things that it is good at in play and work groups. It also depends on support to appreciate others to compete and be their best in things others are better at.
If the child experienced developmental trauma or shock traumas in this stage, as an adult, they are not able to…
- Compete to be one’s best in play, study, and work groups
- Stay back and support others to be their best in play, study, and work groups when others are better at what is needed to get things done
- Enjoy competing in play, study, and work groups to be one’s best
- Enjoy others doing their best at things they are good at (things that one might not be good at)
- Enjoy competing to be the best at things one is good at
- Enjoy being the best at things one is good at
- Maintain one’s sense of self and self-worth in situations others are doing well in things one might not be good at
About Raja Selvam, PhD
Raja Selvam, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist from California, the author of the best-selling book The practice of embodying emotions: A guide for improving cognitive, emotional, and behavioral outcomes, and developer of Integral Somatic Psychology, a science-backed, body-based, and emotion-focused complementary approach designed to reduce treatment times and improve diverse outcomes in all therapy modalities including body existing psychotherapy approaches.
His articles on trauma, embodiment, and spirituality have appeared in several journals.
Raja is also Senior Faculty at Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute and works as a licensed clinical psychologist with a PhD in Psychology.
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