Rick Hohfeler has been a clinical psychologist since 1986. He has maintained a private practice in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area for the past 30+ years, specializing in psychological trauma since 1988 as co-manager of an inpatient trauma program where he also co-managed an inpatient program treating children and adolescents until 1995. He maintains a private practice treating people suffering from severe developmental trauma including a special emphasis on dissociative disorders in private practice. This specialty was also applied while working for Wisconsin Department of Corrections from 2008-2020. He has provided supervision and consultation to therapists and case managers from a variety of agencies in the Milwaukee area for the past 20 years with consultation affiliations having expanded internationally.
Rick is a faculty member of the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology where he teaches courses in trauma and dissociation. He is a member of ISSTD and served on their Board of Directors from 2016-2022. Since 2014 he has acted as moderator for the Virtual Book Club. He has presented professionally on topics related to trauma and dissociation locally, nationally, and internationally. He has published papers related to working with trauma/dissociation in forensic settings and is in process of releasing a paper regarding the regulatory aspects of shame in dissociative disorders.
Recognizing Traumatic Dissociation in Clinical Practice
General clinical practices have seen a rather dramatic increase in clients either presenting with issues related to traumatic experiences or discovering traumatic sequelae during the course of treatment. Frequently, post-traumatic symptoms do not achieve the threshold of PTSD diagnosis, especially in those people suffering from persistent early developmental abuse. While the criteria for PTSD may exist, they are often hidden from view under self-protective dissociative dynamics. Psychotherapy that focuses on derivative etiologies of symptoms, i.e., meanings, will tend to reveal very complex po...Read morest-traumatic experiences including dissociative features if they are present. When such dissociative dynamics exist, they are often not recognized by the client either, and in fact, are fearfully avoided. Without a template or language to identify such underlying processes, they are often missed by the clinician or misidentified. Misdiagnoses of Bipolar, Schizoaffective, Borderline Personality, Conversion, among other disorders are frequently seen in such people. Sadly, dissociative disorders are rarely even considered as a rule out.
This presentation will discuss the hidden phenomena of traumatic dissociation and how to recognize clinical signs of their presence when we see them in treatment. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Recognize the five dimensions of traumatic dissociation
- List five different signs warranting further investigation of traumatic dissociation
- Identify how chronic shame interacts with traumatic dissociation symptomatically
- Learn how some of the major DSM-V categories can disguise the presence of traumatic dissociation
Friday, May 03, 2024
Live Interactive Webinar
12:00 PM PDT - 01:30 PM PDT
EARN 1.5 CE Credit Hours
About the speaker
Richard Hohfeler, PsyD
CE Information - Earn 1.5 CE Credit Hours
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