Cllinical Social Worker
Private Practice
Marquettte, MI, United States
Frances S. Waters, DCSW, LMSW, LMFT, is an internationally recognized trainer, consultant, and clinician in childhood trauma, abuse, and dissociation, and has presented extensively in 5 continents.
Ms. Waters is the past President of ISSTD, served as co-chair of ISSTD’s Child & Adolescent Committee, and as ISSTD’s Faculty Director of the Child Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Programs.
Ms. Waters on Editorial Boards of the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma and Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. She is a member of the national Advisory Board of the Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence.
Ms. Waters is author of Healing the Fracture Child: Diagnosing and Treating Dissociative Youth (2016) and has published many chapters and articles on childhood trauma and dissociation.
Ms. Waters developed a comprehensive checklist of indicators of trauma and dissociative, CIT-DY(2020) (Parent & Youth Versions), a developmentally sensitive rating system for preschoolers through adolescents, that can be filled out by caretakers and adolescents. She is currently conducting research on this checklist.
Ms. Waters is the executive producer and participant of two training videos-The Traumatized Child: Understanding and Parenting the Traumatized Child & Teaching the Traumatize Child and Trauma & Dissociation in Children geared toward forensic evaluators and prosecutors.
Ms. Waters received the 2008 Media Award from American Professional Society on Abuse of Children for her production of Trauma and Dissociation in Children, the 2012 ISSTD’s Presidential Award for her faculty directorship of ISSTD’s Psychotherapy Course on Child & Adolescent Dissociation, the ISSTD’s 2019 Cornelia B. Wilbur Award for her research, training and clinical work in the field of trauma and dissociation, the 2019 William Friedrich Memorial Child Sexual Abuse Research, Assessment and/or Treatment Award from IVAT, and the ISSTD’s 2022 Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award.
She maintains a private practice in Marquette, MI.
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Saturday, April 15, 2023
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM US Eastern Time
Sunday, April 16, 2023
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM US Eastern Time