Naomi Moore : Dissociation - An Introduction
Sat 04 Dec
|Online Event
Gain more awareness about dissociation in children and young people, the theory and thinking behind it, the presentation and how we might effectively communicate about it with children, their carers and schools to recognise and support children along withappropriate resources to be able to do this.
Time & Location
04 Dec 2021, 10:00 – 16:30
Online Event
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About The Event
Summary:
Dissociation in children and young people is an autonomous adaptive survival strategy that often goes unnoticed. It might be described to you as 'they're always in a daydream', or 'they're in their own world', or 'they just shut down and you'll get nothing out of them like that.' Or maybe it's dissociation. Children might not be able to physically leave the situation, but psychologically they can exit and often we don't even notice they have gone, because their body is still physically there.
Dissociation is a way of surviving an experience, or experiences that are overwhelming and terrifying. The child may not have the support to protect and help them integrate and recover from their experiences, leaving the child in a dysregulated, distressed state for which dissociation is the only way that they are able to cope.
Dissociation occurs on a spectrum from normal dissociative experiences (think of all…