This is the minimum set of skills necessary to downregulate dissociation. These are found on page 146 of Christine Forner’s book.
Phase One
- Learning how to ground and uses grounding techniques
- Learning emotional safety skills
- Practicing Internal Communication between parts
- Practicing Regulating Fear
- Insight into when being scared happens (when dissociation is possible)
- Getting out of the fear response
- Understand the difference between the past and present in regard to the fear response
- Feel feelings without dissociation
- Emote feelings without dissociation
- Distinguish between procedurally learned experiences and new experiences
- Able to take a mental pause
- Basic empathy
- Basic self attunement
References
Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations: Trauma-Informed Practices to Facilitate Growth - Christine C. Forner
Dissociation FAQ - International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation
Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults (2011) - International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation
Understanding Integration - Rachel Downing, LCSW © 2003 Sidran Institute.
Dissociative Experiences Scale - II (DES-II) - For printing and laminating
Dissociative Experiences Scale - II (DES-II) - Online version
Integration Measure (IM) - For printing, borrowed from M. Rose Barlow’s Thesis.
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