D & JAM Trainings

If you are already somewhat familiar with understanding and assessing dissociative symptoms, and/or have previously attended the 3 hour introductory course by the presenters, this workshop is for you!

This is an on-demand course. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email that contains links to access all training materials and be able to view the recording and complete the course on your own schedule (prior to the expiry date of February 12, 2023).

Integrating the Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation into Clinical Practice. A 6-hour ON-DEMAND webinar.

Workshop Description

This workshop offers updated and expanded clinical application and differential diagnosis material based upon recent research, literature, and the presenters’ experience in consultation focused on the MID with hundreds of clinicians world-wide.

Many therapies focused on trauma resolution require screening and/or assessment for pathological dissociation as a prerequisite or preparatory step to accessing and activation of traumatic memory material. Since the development of EMDR in the early 1990s, a large body of research has shown that it is efficacious for PTSD. Clinicians and researchers have found positive treatment effects beyond PTSD for more complicated conditions. Unfortunately, clinicians soon discovered that EMDR seemed to move complex trauma patients into dysregulated states rather than towards the expected, adaptive resolution of targeted traumatic memories. Therapists new to EMDR gain a powerful tool, yet they are frequently caught unprepared to recognize dissociative features, conceptualize treatment in terms of dissociation, or modify treatment when dissociative symptoms pose a treatment challenge.

The Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID) has become a valuable assessment tool for trauma-focused clinicians--and EMDR practitioners in particular--both to determine the presence of pathological dissociation and to develop more fine-grained interventions for preparation and successful trauma accessing/reprocessing. The MID is a 218-item, self-administered instrument with 168 dissociation items and 50 validity items developed by Paul F. Dell, PhD (2006, 2011). The MID reliably differentiates and offers a diagnostic impression for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder. 

Participants will be introduced to the MID in this ‘walk-through,’ during which they will learn to administer and score the MID; navigate the MID Analysis to enter data, interpret results, and conduct a follow-up interview; and begin to understand how the information offered up by the MID Report may influence treatment. Vignettes will assist clinicians to connect MID impressions with what clinicians may see (or have already seen) in client sessions. Case examples will be discussed, with particular attention paid to how certain clusters of dissociative symptoms could influence clinician’s decisions regarding the use of specific kinds of preparation and trauma accessing methods. Implications for stabilization and potential markers for readiness for trauma accessing, particularly in an EMDR therapy frame, but also more generally, will be offered.

MID documents are available without charge to mental health professionals and researchers at www.mid-assessment.com. Participants are highly encouraged to download and review the MID Analysis, MID (questions) and Interpretive Manual in preparation for this training.

Level of Content

Intermediate – attendance of a previous introductory workshop by the presenters or prior familiarity with the MID and key concepts of pathological dissociation is strongly recommended.

Essential Information

Dates: This webinar was recorded in January of 2022. Registration for this on-demand course is open through February 10, 2023. In order to receive EMDRIA Credit for this course, it must be fully completed by 11:59 pm CST on February 12, 2023.

Cost: $120 for fully licensed clinicians, $80 for students or provisionally licensed clinicians.

Recording access: all registrants will receive access to the recording of this webinar through February 12, 2023.

Certificates Available

EMDRIA Credit: This workshop offers 6.0 EMDRIA Credits (EC Program Approval PENDING). Certificates will be emailed to participants upon completion of the learning assessment (link provided upon registration).

CE credit: General continuing education credit may be purchased separately from R. Cassidy Seminars for a separate fee of $40. Evaluations and Certificates are available by email and online following course completion. Detailed information regarding CE accreditation are available here.

Learning Objectives

Parts 1 & 2

1) Define dissociative symptoms based upon the phenomenological model of dissociation, upon which the MID is based.

2) Complete administration, scoring, and navigation of the MID Analysis to input test-taker response and view results.

3) Interpret results of the MID Report, and identify keys areas of focus for the follow-up interview.

Parts 3 & 4

4) Describe and identify key indicators that an individual’s MID results may require complex differential diagnosis due to factors such as response bias and false-positive diagnosis.

5) Complete a clinical interview to clarify MID results, inform differential diagnosis, and inform the direction of treatment.

6) Describe several unique applications of the MID Report, based on case examples, and how the MID can be used to clarify diagnosis and guide treatment planning in both clinical and consultation roles.

Content & Timeline

This webinar is presented in four 90-minute segments.

Part 1 (90 minutes)

• Introduction – 10 mins
• Review Basic introduction, MID Mindset, and 23 symptoms of the MID – 10 mins
• Administering the MID (15 min)
• Scoring the MID (5 min)
• Exploring The MID Report (40 min)
• Q&A (10 min)

Part 2 (90 minutes)

• Contextualizing The MID Report (20 min)
• Reading and Understanding the MID Report Line and Bar Graphs (20 min)
• Making sense of the initial MID results (20 min)
• The Extended MID Report (20 min)
• Q&A (10 min)

Part 3 (90 minutes)

• FAQs from our consultation experience (15 min)
• Case Example (30 min)
• Preparing for the follow-up interview (15 min)
• Conducting and concluding the follow-up interview (20 min)
• Q&A (10 min)

Part 4 (90 minutes)

• Simpler differential diagnosis – TBI, autism spectrum, false-positives, BPD (30 min)
• Complex differential diagnosis – how validity scales, pathological dissociation scales impact how to view the rest of the MID report and Extended MID Report (15 min)
• Establishing a context for the symptoms identified and measured by the MID (how these matter for therapy) (15 min)
• Beyond clinical diagnosis: practical applications of the MID (25 min)
• Q&A and wrap-up (5 min)

Target Audience

Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors

Cancellation Policy

• No refunds will be given for this on-demand webinar. If you registered for this webinar in error, please email registrations@mid-assessment.com and request to have your registration transferred to the intended event.

Other questions or grievances, please contact registrations@mid-assessment.com

Disclosures

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.