Abused Children with DID Caley Thurgood PSY 1010
Abused Children with DID Caley Thurgood PSY 1010 April 20, 2013
What is DID? �Dissociative Identity Disorder �Formally known as Multiple Personality Disorder �The effect of Abuse or Truama in Childhood �PCA (Prolonged Child Abuse) �Relatable to: daydreaming
PCA with DID �PCA causes child to be more susceptible �In consistent parent figure �Results in detachment issues, no self-worth �Child loses sense of reality, memories, feelings, and actions �Coping mechanism to survive traumatic situations �More advanced dissociation - amnesia
Coping with DID �Therapy is used to correct dissociative behaviors �Contextual Therapy, one of most common methods �Collaborative Relating �Collaborative Conceptualization �Skills Transmission
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