Explain strategies for maintaining the therapeutic relationship with a client that may present with a dissociative disorder. Finally, explain ethical and legal considerations related to dissociative disorders that you need to bring to your practice and why they are important.

Explain strategies for maintaining the therapeutic relationship with a client that may present with a dissociative disorder. Finally, explain ethical and legal considerations related to dissociative disorders that you need to bring to your practice and why they are important.

The assumption that dissociative disorders stem from confabulations of trauma memories has no scientific basis and is founded on unproven ideas and theories frequently peddled through the mass media. The supporters of this unexamined idea suggest three models explaining their claims and beliefs. These are the Iatrogenic Model, the Sociocognitive Model, and the Fantasy Model (Loewenstein et, 2018). The Iatrogenic Model postulates that dissociative disorders can iatrogenically result from hypnotic treatment interventions that embed false memories while attempting to recover repressed traumatic memories. This outcome is said to be frequently encountered in susceptible and hypnotizable individuals such as those with personality disorders. The Sociocognitive Model suggests that dissociative disorders are a result of false beliefs that an individual has the condition based on imposition from information in the media. The Fantasy Model asserts that fantasy-prone individuals can confabulate traumatic memories leading to dissociative disorders. The supporters of these models do not believe in the repression of traumatic experiences and memories. They also do not believe that dissociative disorders are real psychiatric conditions and thus deserve no attention and treatment. This ignorance can result in catastrophic outcomes for the unattended affected individuals due to the risk of suicide and selfdestructive tendencies. There is thus a need for enhanced public education and public awareness of matters relating to dissociative disorders in an evidence-based manner to debunk any false beliefs and ideas. Professional Beliefs About Dissociative Disorders My professional belief is that dissociative disorders are real psychiatric conditions and thus should be treated in conformity with evidence-based best practices rather than being ignored. In contrast to the popular belief that dissociative disorders are associated with