Breaking the Bonds of Sexual Trauma: Using Resiliency-Based Clinical Strategies to Help Survivors Restore Their Lives
A Restored Life is Within Reach for Survivors of Sexual Trauma
The statistics are startling. Every 2 minutes in the United States, a person is a victim of a sexual assault. Over the last twenty years, 4.2 million Americans have been sexually traumatized. This is a seismic event that crosses racial, gender, and socioeconomic lines to impact every facet of a person’s being. It is at the heart of many presenting issues that clinicians encounter in their practices, including relationship challenges, substance abuse disorders, and chronic health problems. Current clinical approaches often miss the mark, overlooking the most essential and complicating factors of treatment.
This contributes to clients regressing and identifying even more strongly with their trauma.
Now there is hope for these survivors and those who love them. Melissa Bradley-Ball, an esteemed trainer and speaker on issues of trauma and resiliency, guides you through a resilience-based, multi-modal approach that emphasizes the possibility of post-traumatic growth. Help your clients identify and avoid the activation rituals in their lives. Involve the larger family as important team members in the healing process. Use proven somatic grounding, energy psychology, and cognitive-behavioral techniques to help clients in their heroic journey toward restoration.
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Melissa Bradley-Ball, MS, NCC, BCETS, FAAETS, is a psychotherapist, clinical educator, corporate consultant and mediator. She is a Fellow, Diplomate and board-certified expert in traumatic stress for the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. She has been a frequent keynote speaker at national and statewide conferences and has provided training internationally to more than 350,000 professionals, including mental health providers, medical providers, clergy and chaplains, law enforcement, and legal professionals. She is a former child abuse investigator who has provided expert testimony in criminal and civil court. Ms. Bradley-Ball has been a frequent guest on regional and national radio and television news addressing rape and sexual abuse. She has served as a subject matter expert on a pilot program focused on military leadership and sexual assault and harassment.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Melissa Bradley Ball is the owner of The Heroic Journey. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Melissa Bradley Ball is a Fellow and Diplomat of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. She is a member of the American Counseling Association and the Tennessee Counseling Association.
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Objectives
Determine appropriate treatment protocol based on the client’s level of functioning
Explain sexualized trauma composites and how to dismantle them as it related to case conceptualization
Describe how to incorporate resources in to the therapeutic session when working with victims of sexual trauma
Describe how to incorporate the heroic journey resiliency model in to the therapeutic session when working with victims of sexual trauma
Apply macro and micro aspects of a client’s story to promote safe and effective trauma processing in-session
Choose a treatment plan that addresses the unique needs of victims of military sexual trauma and human trafficking
Outline
FOUNDATIONAL ESSENTIALS OF TRAUMA
Assessing the client’s trauma composite
Effectively and safely working with the micro and macro story
The #1 factor contributing to PTSD and long-term intimacy disruption, and how to deal with it
Helping clients integrate the trauma into their life narrative
Grieving and mourning well
Thriver
The heroic narrative is integrated
Trust in self and in the life process is restored
THE COMPLEXITY OF SEXUAL TRAUMA
Trauma activation rituals, trauma composites, and sexualized trauma composites
Repetition and why it happens
How to direct the ritual
Recognizing and dismantling trauma composites
Themis: the often hidden PRIMARY trauma
Somatic, cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and sensory details
Sexual trauma reactivation over the course of a lifespan
Developmental (possible) “flare up” times
Medical: reactivation of sexual trauma
When medical issues mimic sexual trauma
RESILIENCY-BASED CLINICAL STRATEGIES FOR TREATING SEXUAL TRAUMA
Assessing strengths and deficits of post-traumatic growth
Considerations and implementations with different approaches
Group
Couple
Individual
Family
Setting up resources
Somatic grounding-creating safety and resetting natural survival responses
Energy psychology approaches
Cognitive-behavioral approaches and creation of positive portfolios
“Preparing the team”
Making sense of the trauma, and finding purpose from it
The “heroic journey” resilience narrative
Utilizing movies and literature as resources
Assisting the client to incorporate resources from their spiritual tradition
Memories (micro or macro)-titrating the pain and incorporating the narrative
Adjunct Therapies
Bodywork: Breema, Reiki, massage, acupuncture, and more
Appropriate timing for encouraging the use of other resources
Special Topics for Consideration
Working with sexually avoidant clients and their partners
Working with “promiscuity”: is it trauma re-enactment?
Working with trauma clients with BDSM lifestyles
Working with victims of military sexual trauma and human trafficking
Target Audience
Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Marriage and Family Therapists
Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors
Psychiatrists
Educators
Case Managers
Chaplains/Clergy
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
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