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When children and young people are violent, avoidant, dissociate, become dysregulated and are not motivated for trauma treatment, it can be difficult to stabilize them. Many of them don’t want to talk about the trauma and we don’t want to make things worse and ‘wake up sleeping dogs’. However research shows these unprocessed trauma’s (sleeping dogs) can do a lot of damage in all developmental areas.
In this webinar Arianne Struik introduces the Sleeping Dogs method which can be used for these children. The Sleeping Dogs method is a family oriented brief method, developed to stabilize and prepare these children, and engage them in trauma-focused therapy in a safe way. With the Sleeping Dogs Tool a structured analysis is made of the child’s barriers. Customised treatment focuses on overcoming the child’s barriers. Collaboration with the child’s network, the child’s biological family including the abuser-parent and child protection services, are key elements of the Sleeping Dogs method. Arianne Struik will illustrated the use of the method with case examples and video material. Research data of a pilot study (Struik, Lindauer, & Ensink, 2017) show that this is a promising and relatively short method. If practitioners struggle with ‘how to stabilize these children’, this symposium provides you with an overview and clear structure of how to intervene and in which order illustrated with case examples.
Struik, A. (2019). Treating Chronically Traumatized Children: The Sleeping Dogs method (Second ed.). London, UK/ New York, NY: Routledge.
Struik, A., Lindauer, R. J., & Ensink, J. B. (2017). I Won’t Do EMDR! The Use of the “Sleeping Dogs” Method to Overcome Children’s Resistance to EMDR Therapy. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 11(4), 166-180. https://doi.org/10.1891/1933-3196.11.4.166
Sinason, V., & Marks-Potgieter, R. (Eds.). (2021). Treating Children with Dissociative Disorders. Attachment, Trauma, Theory and Practice. Routledge.
Arianne Struik is a Clinical Psychologist, Family Therapist and EMDR Consultant, originally from the Netherlands. She is director of the Institute for Chronically Traumatized Children (ICTC) from which she provides specialized trauma treatment in remote areas, as well as workshops, training, supervision and research. She developed the award-winning Sleeping Dogs method, described in the book Treating Chronically Traumatized Children and teaches internationally on the treatment of trauma and dissociation in children. She is member of the ESTD Child and Adolescent Committee.
In case of any technical or organizational problems, please contact: assistant@estd.org
The recording of this webinar will be available later as video-on-demand only for ESTD members.