Certificate in Dissociative Disorders Awareness

Dissociative disorders can be hard to diagnose and hard to understand. This group of disorders includes the syndrome that used to be known as “Multiple Personality Disorder”. This course uses a text written by a medical doctor which introduces the concepts of dissociative disorders to other helping professionals in an accessible way. Guidelines for available treatment strategies are noted and hypnotherapy is a feature of possible approaches.

Typical presenting syndromes are outlined so that doctors and other helping professionals can be alert to the possibility of dissociative disorder. The role of dissociative disorders in post-traumatic stress, body-image problems, eating disorders, sleep disorders and sexual disorders is presented. There is also material on family relationships where a family member is dissociative.

This course will be of interest to counsellors and therapists as well as all those who care for or come into contact with people with dissociative disorders.

If you are a qualified therapist or health professional this course will lead to the
Certificate of Professional Development in Dissociative Disorders Awareness - P.D. Cert. (D.D.A.)

Recommended period of study: approx. 3 months or less.

A FREE textbook will be included for students from the UK.

Students outside the UK will need to pay extra for the textbook and postage.