Education & Training
Training and courses to help deal with a variety of challenging situations
Professional development workshops
Workshops will cater to a range of experience levels given the strengths based nature of facilitation and the tailoring of the session to attendees learning needs and level. Programs are relevant across a range of sectors and a range of professionals working in the health and community services field.
Price includes GST, comprehensive notes, lunch, morning & afternoon tea. Group size is 40 participants maximum.
'Let's Beat Counting Sheep!' - Conquering Sleep Post Trauma - MELBOURNE
Presented by: Donna Zander
Date: 17th and 18th October 2019 (2 days)
Course overview
Let's Beat Counting Sheep - conquering sleep post trauma (2 days)
Like sufferers, practitioners often avoid the issue of sleep in trauma treatment. A CBT-based approach has emerged as the 'treatment of choice' for managing sleep difficulties in trauma presentations. Sleep disruption is both a strategy and an effect of violence, abuse and trauma which profoundly effects the lives of people who have suffered. This workshop traces the interconnections between the patterns of sleeping (not sleeping), the insomnia's and the parasomnias for adults, young people and children. Many survivors experience nightmares, bed-wetting, night panic and disrupted sleep patterns following trauma. Recovery of the ability to sleep is often slow and uneven with interactive effects. Sleep difficulties impair night functioning, reduce quality of life and can cause secondary health problems. The workshop will explore proven evidence based therapeutic strategies to improve night time happenings and help to make new positive dreams come true!. Issues relating to treatment implementation and factors that mediate sufferers' responses are examined, including clinical outcomes utilising a range of case studies. Participants will have the opportunity to practice and develop skills in I.R.T.
Learning outcomes
Participants will: 1. Increase their knowledge and understanding of the mechanisms and processes underpinning sleep in children and adults and the impact of trauma on such processes. 2. Increase knowledge of appropriate trauma sleep assessment and intervention models. 3. Be provided with the appropriate skills in assessing, intervening and supporting the long term recovery of sleep. 4. Develop creative and proven effective intervention tools for their tool box including skills in creative dreaming and I.R.T.
Price: $460.00
9:30am - 4:30pm price: $440.00
Venue: To Be Advised-Central Melbourne
Morning, Afternoon Tea, Lunch & GST Inclusive
Unlocking Trauma- 'Keys to Exposing Exposure Therapy and C.B.T.' - MELBOURNE
Presented by: Donna Zander
Date: 28th and 29th October 2019 (2 days)
Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm
Course overview
Unlocking Trauma -Exploring the Exposure therapy and CBT Key (2 days)
Exposure treatments using C.B.T. have emerged in response to the need for more intensive, direct and effective interventions for anxiety and stress disorders and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and they are the key evidenced based treatment. This two day workshop, covers the fundamentals of exposure treatment and its many variants. It describes how it is used in the treatment, and offers guidelines for the use of this technique within a comprehensive approach to the treatment of PTSD. This workshop will cover the fundamentals of exposure therapy and its many variants, describe how it is used in the treatment of PTSD, and to offer guidelines for when to use this potentially very effective technique within a comprehensive approach to treating PTSD. It will be skills based including hands on experience and practice in triads and small groups of phases of exposure and include demonstrations of the Foa Prolonged Exposure model and stages of treatment
Learning outcomes
1. Gain knowledge of the research underpinning the evidence base of exposure therapy in PTSD treatment, the principles and the structure of the therapy. 2. Gain knowledge of the structure of safe trauma treatment and the skills to prepare clients for exposure in 'single incident' and complex trauma presentations. 3. Develop skills in teaching trauma psycho education, effect management, distress tolerance and the rationale for exposure to clients. 4. Increased confidence and competence in undertaking prolonged exposure and understanding the role of C.B.T. within the process.
Price: $460.00
AASW CPE approved, APS Members & Students price: $440.00
Venue: To Be Advised-Central Melbourne
Morning, Afternoon Tea, Lunch & GST Inclusive
Unlocking Trauma via P.L.A.Y.- 'Play, Laughter, Art & You!' - MELBOURNE
Presented by: Donna Zander
Date: 28th & 29th November 2019 (2 days)
Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm
Course overview
WE were all children and young people once, first we PLAYED then we "HUNG OUT" and now we WORK. This two day workshop will explore the theoretical underpinnings of trauma work with children and young people in the context of the neurobiological impact including on the social engagement system. PLAY and the experiential use of the self via the tools of play, laughter, art and other creative therapies/strategies will be demonstrated. It will explore issues such as observation, trauma assessment, suitability for PLAY therapy and therapy type, the use of language, the use of the self, transference, counter-transference and resistance. Such strategies will be explored in the context of working individually, in groups and in families.
Learning outcomes
Participants will: 1. Understand the impact of trauma on the development of the child and young person's brain and subsequent behavioural responses and therapeutic enrichment and intervention strategies. 2. Develop P.L.A.Y. strategies to confront avoidance behaviours and educate children and young people about the purpose these behaviours serve for them. 3. Learn about P.L.A.Y. as the language and strategies as the words to transform trauma and find solutions to its behavioural manifestations. 4. Develop P.L.A.Y based practice skills in trauma assessment and neurobiological intervention and transformation in a range of contexts. Have fun so wear comfortable relaxed PLAY clothes!
Price: $460.00
AASW CPE approved, APS Members & Students price: $440.00
Venue: To Be Advised-Central Melbourne