Important CEU Information: This program has been approved for 5 Social Work Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR. Collaborative of NASW and the Boston College and Simmons Schools of Social Work Authorization Number D 51734.

James A. Chu, MD is a Consultant in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chu graduated from Yale College in 1972, and received his medical degree at Tufts University School of Medicine in 1976. In 1979 he joined the staff of McLean Hospital where he established innovative clinical programs for the treatment of adults with trauma-related disorders, and then went on to serve as the Chief of Hospital Clinical Services. Dr. Chu has taught widely throughout the United States and internationally. His publications in the psychiatric literature include both basic research on the effects of childhood abuse and discussions concerning the nature and techniques of treatment of abuse survivors.

Dr. Chu is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a Fellow and a past president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, and the recipient of that organization’s Cornelia B. Wilbur Award, Distinguished Achievement Awards, Pierre Janet Writing Award, and President’s Award for outstanding contributions in the field of dissociative disorders. Dr. Chu has served as Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation and is Field Editor for PTSD of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry. The second edition of his book, Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Treating Complex Posttraumatic and Dissociative Disorders, was published by John Wiley & Sons in the spring of 2011. He maintains a private practice in Concord, MA.

Participants of this Seminar will Learn:

• how to diagnose adults with PTSD and the co-morbid conditions associated with prolonged childhood trauma
• the rationale for the phase-oriented treatment of complex PTSD commonly associated with prolonged and severe childhood trauma
• why persons with complex PTSD may use repetitive self-harm as a coping mechanism
• how to distinguish between true and pseudo-memories
• how to understand the difficulties that persons with PTSD may have with intimacy and trust

Rebuilding Shattered Lives: The Diagnosis and Treatment of Complex PTSD—Program Synopsis

This workshop is geared for clinicians who are working with persons with complex PTSD gain a comprehensive understanding about the process of diagnosis and treatment. It is based on a large and growing body of knowledge and experience concerning treatment models and standards of care for the treatment of adult patients who have been severely traumatized in childhood. The treatment is usually lengthy and seldom straightforward, often involving periods of crisis, instability and personal chaos. Because of the tenuous nature of their ability to sustain connection, work with these individuals requires an unusual level of involvement, and because of their multiple layers of symptoms and functional problems, the clinical work is often unclear. This workshop is meant to be a “hands on” resource for clinicians. It will focus on the actual treatment process of working with complex trauma patients, with an emphasis on how to understand difficult clinical presentations and dilemmas and fruitfully resolve them, i.e., what should clinicians know, what should they do, and how should they go about doing that. This course will review some of collective clinical experience of the past three decades concerning the kind of thoughtful and skillful treatment that can often result in fruitful and gratifying therapeutic outcomes.

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