Melanie Goodwin – författare

Dissociative Identities draws on expertise from practitioners and survivors to explore therapeutic approaches to dissociation resulting from complex trauma. The contributors provide a vivid insight into what it is like for therapist and survivor to be alongside one another in the therapy room. They highlight the challenges of work with the fragmented internal worlds of those who have survived attachment trauma and explore together what approaches can promote healing and repair.Dissociative identity is reframed from being a disorder to an essential survival skill, and the book includes an open recognition from the perspective of both therapist and survivor of relational challenges, pitfalls, and their impact on the healing process.Dissociative Identities will be invaluable for all professionals working with survivors of complex trauma, including psychotherapists, nurses, social workers, clinical psychologists, and counsellors. It will also be of interest to survivors and their networks.

Dissociative Identities draws on expertise from practitioners and survivors to explore therapeutic approaches to dissociation resulting from complex trauma. The contributors provide a vivid insight into what it is like for therapist and survivor to be alongside one another in the therapy room. They highlight the challenges of work with the fragmented internal worlds of those who have survived attachment trauma and explore together what approaches can promote healing and repair.Dissociative identity is reframed from being a disorder to an essential survival skill, and the book includes an open recognition from the perspective of both therapist and survivor of relational challenges, pitfalls, and their impact on the healing process.Dissociative Identities will be invaluable for all professionals working with survivors of complex trauma, including psychotherapists, nurses, social workers, clinical psychologists, and counsellors. It will also be of interest to survivors and their networks.

Working with Dissociation in Clinical Practice, which is published in partnership with the Association of Clinical Psychologist UK (ACP-UK), brings together current literature and the contributing authors’ professional and lived experiences to provide practical recommendations for supporting the mental health and wellbeing of individuals with dissociative difficulties.Readers will benefit from learning how to apply this advice for best practice to a range of settings and client groups, ensuring more positive service user outcomes. Written in dialogue between experts-by-training and experts-by-experience, this essential edited volume covers practical strategies for practitioners working with dissociative clients. Authors address areas such as common misconceptions, assessment, co-morbidity, risk management and providing care and therapy within a trauma-informed and multi-disciplinary context. The book further explores support for dissociation within more specialist clinical areas, tailoring guidance to a range of client groups including, children, older people, those with learning disabilities, and those in forensic settings. It provides guidance for health systems and organisations to become more dissociation aware, within existing frameworks for trauma-informed care.This book is a compelling read for clinical psychologists, other psychological and mental health practitioners, people with lived experience of dissociative difficulties and those who support them.

Working with Dissociation in Clinical Practice, which is published in partnership with the Association of Clinical Psychologist UK (ACP-UK), brings together current literature and the contributing authors’ professional and lived experiences to provide practical recommendations for supporting the mental health and wellbeing of individuals with dissociative difficulties.Readers will benefit from learning how to apply this advice for best practice to a range of settings and client groups, ensuring more positive service user outcomes. Written in dialogue between experts-by-training and experts-by-experience, this essential edited volume covers practical strategies for practitioners working with dissociative clients. Authors address areas such as common misconceptions, assessment, co-morbidity, risk management and providing care and therapy within a trauma-informed and multi-disciplinary context. The book further explores support for dissociation within more specialist clinical areas, tailoring guidance to a range of client groups including, children, older people, those with learning disabilities, and those in forensic settings. It provides guidance for health systems and organisations to become more dissociation aware, within existing frameworks for trauma-informed care.This book is a compelling read for clinical psychologists, other psychological and mental health practitioners, people with lived experience of dissociative difficulties and those who support them.