Etiology of Dissociative Identity Disorder and OSDD
- Attachment: secure, avoidant, ambivalent, disorganized
- Multiplicity Continuum
- History and Prevalence: developmental model, inaccuracy of the sociocognitive model
- Research limitations and potential risks
Diagnostic Process:
False Negatives, False Positives and Co-Morbid Disorders
- Initial Assessment Interview: important questions often overlooked
- DSM 5™ criteria
- Co-morbid disorders
- False positives and false negatives
- Case study demonstrating detailed steps
The Three Foundational Pillars
Resourcing
- Attunement
- Mindfulness/Somatics
- Imagination
Getting to Know the Alters
- Introductions
- Roles
- Internal World
The Three Cs
- Communication
- Cooperation
- Co-consciousness
Working with Memory Gaps, Rapid Switching and Other Challenges
- Introduction of the ten aspirations designed to maximize positive clinical outcomes
- Maximize attunement: therapist to themselves, therapist to client, and client to themselves
- Finding ways around dissociative barriers
- How to handle secrets and unreliable memory
- Decompensation: how to work with rapid switching
- Compassion fatigue and the dangers of countertransference
Dimensional Scale of Clients’ Inner Worlds
- Structure
- Organization
- Layers of Alters
- Responsible Adults
- Dissociative Barriers
- The Three Cs
- Child alters
Trauma Specific Work with DID Clients
- Determine which alters need to be involved in the processing
- Components of the traumatic memory
- Alters and preferred resourcing method
- Clinical guidance for processing
- How to end the session and return the client to the present
- Safety planning


