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Complex PTSD: Innovations in Conceptualization, Assessment, and Treatment
🗓 Date: 13th May
⏰ Time: 7 PM CET
📍 Free Online Event
In 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO) accepted complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) alongside PTSD into the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). This webinar will provide the clinical and theoretical motivation for the development of CPTSD and the now substantial empirical evidence that has accumulated supporting the distinction between CPTSD and PTSD. Differential risk factors, prevalence rates, comorbidities and long-term consequences between ICD-11 PTSD and CPTSD will be reviewed. A description of the similarities and differences between CPTSD and borderline personality disorder (BPD) and clinical implications will be provided. Emerging evidence regarding strategies for treating CPTSD and future directions for treatment development will be discussed.
Presenter
Dr. Marylene Cloitre is a psychologist, Research Professor and Senior Research Scientist at the New York University Silver School of Social Work. Her long-standing research and clinical interests have concerned the long-term effects of psychological trauma on the social and emotional functioning of children, youth and adults. She was a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) ICD-11 working group on trauma-spectrum disorders and helped guide the development of the Complex PTSD diagnosis implemented by the WHO. She is the lead developer of STAIR Narrative Therapy and its variants. Her current research is dedicated to the development of effective, patient-tailored, flexibly delivered mental health programs for PTSD, Complex PTSD and other trauma-related problems. She is the recipient of the 2015 Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Practice of Trauma Psychology from Division 56 of the American Psychological Association and the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS).
The webinar is intended only for professionally occupied with diagnosis, treatment, research or teaching in the field of trauma, dissociation and disorders related to chronic traumatization.