Compulsory seminars:

Grund-, Aufbau- und Fortbildungsseminare können auch von externen Interessenten belegt werden. Dazu wenden Sie sich bitte jeweils rechtzeitig an die Institutsleitung.
Methodikseminare können nur als Block von 4 Seminaren belegt werden und nur von Teilnehmern der gesamten Fortbildung.

1. The theoretical foundations of SPIM-20-CT (16 hours – 2 days)

1. Terms, definitions, concepts
2. The basic physiology of the brain
3. Working with attachment and relationships, dissociation and affect disorders, transferences and introjects
4. Body psychotherapy for psychotrauma patients
5. The essentials for individual and group psychotherapy for children / adolescents / adults
6. Play therapy and the reparenting approach
7. Counselling fundamentals for the treatment of acutely and complexly traumatised patients regarding legal standards and organised networks

2. Advanced SPIM-20-CT (16 hours – 2 days)

1. Using the manual in practice, stages and phases of psychoeducation
2. Structures for the role schemata of dissociative / complexly traumatised patients (halting regression, stabilization, containing introjects)
3. Examples of using various settings in practice: demonstrations and training
4. Case vignettes to illustrate the use of various treatment settings
5. Therapy diagnostics and evaluation
6. Counselling issues regarding data protection and legal grey areas (false memory) in the treatment of dissociative / complexly traumatised patients

3. Methodology seminar I SPIM-20-CT (16 hours – 2 days)

1. Basic dialogues for psychotherapeutic postures and the psychotherapeutic framework
2. Focussed psychotrauma exploration and conversation guidelines for targeted therapy
3. Devising psychagogic metaphors for clients and using handouts for each learning phase
4. Devising psychagogic presentations for relatives and other public appearances of the psychotherapist
5. Discussion and training of the necessary criteria for therapeutic work with groups of complex traumatised patients or psycho- therapists in self-experience
6. Developing self-experience criteria for contact, monitoring goals and reducing psycho-physical triggers in small and large groups, telephone calls, house visits, and any other support framework enabled by supervised tasks for the training group

4. Methodology seminar II SPIM-20-CT (16 hours – 2 days)

1. Explanation and training of terminology with the aid of case studies: psychotrauma, stress reactions, dissociation and complex traumatisation and the diagnostic stages from acute trauma, PTSD to dissociative identity disorder, Diagnostic criteria and explication of the benefits of questionnaire databases for treating dissociation and trauma
2. Self-experience in methodical settings for contact, support, substitute parenting, phobias and psycho-physical stabilisation and group play
3. Criteria for the psychotherapeutic treatment in groups with the focus on attachment and relationship skills deficits due to complex traumatisation
4. Explanation and discussion of psychodynamic and structural tasks for independent work in group therapy with a focus on moderating and cooperation principles and boundaries and pos- tures for problematic interpersonal situations

5. Methodology seminar III SPIM-20-CT (16 hours – 2 days)

1. Work on the subconscious to regulate actions – necessities, possibilities, boundaries
2. Diagnosing subconscious traumatic reenactments in the form of regressions and other trauma compensating schemata
3. Diagnosing active perpetrator introjects and their chronification through inappropriate settings or relationships
4. Therapy settings for raising awareness and phase-appropriate modification of secondary internal and external structural conflicts within the post-traumatic development and/or self-experience of aggression, grief, disgust, shame and powerlessness
5. Systematic detection and stage-by-stage modification of retraumatising perpetrator structures in specific disturbed relationship dimensions of the clients within an individual and/or group therapy framework
6. Self-experience criteria for psychodynamic filtering and processing of trauma-compensating behaviour in small and large groups which are self-organised by the trainee group

6.Methodology seminar IV SPIM-20-CT (16 hours – 2 days)

1. Diagnostics and principles for a professional and safe psychotrau- ma exposition
2. Criteria and techniques for checking stability and interventions for reorientation in the case of spontaneous psychotrauma flash-backs as well as techniques for labilisation and compensation incidents during exposition
3. Screening techniques and concentrated setting work for pschotrauma exposition with parallelisaåtion methodology and switching perspectives, incl. personal suitability criteria and their application for psychotrauma therapists
4. Self-experience of using beseelbare therapy objects in the pschotrauma exposition
5. Differences in exposition settings between adults and children
6. Personal learning and self-experience objectives for fulfilling the suitability criteria of the trainees for psychotrauma diagnostics and exposition work

7. Advanced workshop I as a supplement to SPIM-20-CT (16 hours – 2 days)

1. other psychotherapeutic diagnostics and stabilisation techniques for complexly traumatised children
2. other structural and socially integrative techniques for building up resources and futhering reintegration in dissociative / complexly traumatised clients
3. other methods for the psychotrauma therapeutic treatment of children and adolescents
4. Case discussions in the context of a different treatment concept for treating complexly traumatised children and adolescents in the daily practice
5. Psychotherapeutic brief supervision of practice cases / case vignettes from the course participants in the context of the visiting lecturers

8. Advanced workshop II as a supplement to SPIM-20-CT (16 hours – 2 days)

1. other psychotherapeutic techniques for the psycho-physical diag- nostics and stabilisation of adults
2. other structural and social techniques for building up resources and integrating dissociative / complexly traumatised clients
3. other methods for trauma-oriented psychotherapy of adults
4. Case discussions in the context of a different treatment concept for the psychotherapy of complexly traumatised adults in the daily practice
5. psychotherapeutic brief supervision of practice cases / case vignettes from the workshop participants in the context of the methodology presented by visiting lecturers