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Запрошуємо вас на серію вебінарів, присвячених Захисній поведінці для дітей 6-12 років. Вебінари розраховані на психологів та психотерапевтів, соціальних робітників, вчітелів та батьків. Вебінари пройдут 2 та 9 грудня, з 16.00 до 19.00 за Київським часом. Вебінари проведе для вас команда спецвалістів з Сінгапуру та Західної Австралії під керівництвом Йогесварі Мунісамі.

Йогесварі Мунісамі має ступінь магістра соціальної роботи у Вашингтонському університеті (США) і диплом із відзнакою в галузі соціальної роботи в NUS. Зараз Йогес є головним соціальним працівником служби захисту дітей у Міністерстві соціального розвитку та розвитку сім’ї. Вона бере участь у пілотному проекті Intensive Family Preservation and Reunification, а також зосереджується на поглибленні нагляду та практиці дітей і сімей у своєму відділенні. Раніше вона працювала в Comcare, Міністерство соціальної підтримки та підтримки сім’ї. З 2007 по 2011 рік працювала в Австралії в Департаменті захисту дітей (округ Перт). Отримала нагороду «Видатний соціальний працівник», яку вручає Сінгапурська асоціація соціальних працівників у 2013 році, вона також є викладачем за сумісництвом на кафедрі соціальної роботи NUS.

Ви дізнаєтеся про теми, принципи та концепції Захисної поведінки та як проводити заняття для
дітей ефективно.
Курс сконцентрований навколо двох основних тем:
1. Ми всі маємо право завжди почуватися в безпеці
2. Ми можемо безпечно поговорити з кимось про будь-що

Підтеми, які ми розглянемо в розділі «Захисна поведінка»:
1. Ранні попереджувальні ознаки
2. Континіум безпеки
3. Мережі
4. Наполегливість
5. Тілесне усвідомлення приватного і публічного
6. Особистий простір, безпечний і небезпечний дотик
7. Завзяття

Мова вебінарів: англійська, українська

За будь яких питань будь ласка звертайтеся до організатора: Ганна Кемп
(Україна/Великобританія), Один із координаторів Української секції (Complex Trauma Institute), асистентка Бабетт Росчайлд, компліментарна боді-терапевтка,
соматична травмо-терапевтка, авторка курсу «Травма-інформована практика в терапії
дотиком». membership@complextraumainstitute.org

Сертифікати будуть додані 15 грудня, вам потрібно буде заповнити коротку форму зворотного зв’язку, і ви отримаєте авторизовану електронну пошту з вашим сертифікатом (перевірте папку зі спамом

Please join us by clicking Live Event at 10 am -11:30 am (UK time) on 17th Dec 2022.

This is a follow-up session from Hannah-Valeria Grishko's presentation 'Psychotherapy in War Times' at our 4th Virtual Conference Responding to Crisis, Disasters and Traumatic Events.

it will be interactional event and the participants will have plenty of opportunity to ask questions, reflect together and discuss points relevant to the topic of the presentation

Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Psychotherapist (NY), Trainer and Supervisor, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Teaching Member of British and Irish Sandplay Society/International Society for Sandplay Therapy, Grief Certified Psychotherapist (www.grief.com), Approved Supervisor of Play Therapy International

1. Please go to My Purchases www.complextraumainstitute.org/account/purchases
2. Please join us by clicking Live Event at 16:30-17:30 pm (UK time) on 13th Dec 2022.

This is a follow-up session from Monika Gos & Monika Baumann's presentation 'Overcoming Trauma Shock with Brainspotting' at our 4th Virtual Conference Responding to Crisis, Disasters and Traumatic Events.

Monika Gos is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and an international Brainspotting Trainer. She has trained and practised widely in both Europe and the USA. Monika provides training and consultation to Health Trusts and one of the largest charities in the UK. She was trained by Dr David Grand, the founder, and leader of Brainspotting, and she brought this therapy method to such countries as Poland, Serbia, Hungary and Ireland. Monika has a private practice in London where she works with adult clients with complex trauma as well as couples.

Monika Baumann is a Clinical Psychologist and Systemic Family Therapist trained at the University of Vienna/Austria. She is a senior Brainspotting Trainer in Austria and Paraguay and teaches the application of Brainspotting in a therapeutic work with children and adolescents. She gained practical experiences in a neurological and psychiatric hospital for children, at the brain tumor unit for children and adolescents at the university hospital of Vienna as in the CHOP/ Philadelphia/USA. Besides building her own family (three daughters), she has always been active as a licensed neuropsychologist and family therapist in her private practice. After her first Brainspotting formation with Dr. David Grand and treatment experiences, she used the technique a lot in Paraguay/South America where she has been engaging in social projects such as children´s home, schools or housing projects. Monika is an author of a book: "Brainspotting with Children and Adolescents: An attuned treatment approach for effective brain-body healing".

This is a follow-up session from Dr Helen Hart's presentation 'Contrasting experiences following the Manchester Arena bomb: Implications for Psychotherapists' at our 4th Virtual Conference Responding to Crisis, Disasters and Traumatic Events.

Helen Hart is a Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist with 23 years’ experience. After working for HMPPS for 12 years, she now works in private practice assessing clients for court reports, offering consultancy to the criminal justice/community sectors and delivering psychotherapy to address a range of complex issues including personality difficulties and trauma. She is in the final stages of completing a Professional Doctorate in Forensic Psychology at Nottingham Trent University under the supervision of Dr Clifford Stevenson and Dr Blerina Kellezi. The research is exploring the experiences of community members following the Manchester Arena bomb in order to identify the factors which promote or hinder community resilience.

' Making Friends with Poly Vagal Theory' An introduction to how you and your clients can use tools from Poly Vagal Theory to enhance therapy right now. The tools demystify dissociation and offer practical, body-based techniques to help clients change the 'gear' their nervous system is operating in. Clients using these skills often gain a deeper understanding of the nuances of their trauma responses and more control over them in daily life.

Please read Michael's article before joining this presentation, PART 2 --'What is Complex Trauma?- Working with the body.
webpage: Free Resources - https://www.complextraumainstitute.org/free-resources

This event will begin with Michael presenting a short summary of his next article recently published and the main ideas. After the introduction, the session is open to all participants to engage in the discussions, facilitated by Michael . We all learn differently, so your level of engagement is up to you. You may self-select whether you wish to have your video or microphone on to enter the discussion, or you may prefer to remain more as an audience member to learn from the panel of participants and their exchanges.

This paper follows directly from his previous article, ‘What is Complex Trauma?’ which outlined
a theory of complex trauma as a chronic condition in which the biological fear system is unable
to deactivate. This current paper is the first of several in which I reflect on the implications of
this theory for clinical practice, starting with what it shows us about our need to work with the
body. It looks at 1) bodily regulation as an enabler of therapeutic engagement, 2) releasing
chronic physical tension and 3) encouraging the completion of the physical impulses of defence
to trigger fear system deactivation, and 4) methods of increasing ventral vagal signal in
order to strengthen the regulation of fear system responses.
Introduction

– an exploration by Rod Aungier. We all want to be the best we can be at whatever we do and trauma informed practise is no different from any other activity, calling or profession  we decide to become allied with,  but who has the best approach? The answer would seem that all approaches have elements of all the others so there is no unique cure all fix we can all subscribe to. In this webinar we explore the different approaches and the different ways in which they offer the solution to Trauma and ask the question “what’s worth knowing about if I’m to be as effective as I can be?”.

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Issue 1

Section I - Perspectives on trauma
1.What is complex trauma?
Michael Guilding
2. Growing strong in limbo: Evaluating the impact of a short term dramatherapy intervention with an adolescent client seeking asylum
Sasha Nemeckova
3. We need to talk: differential understandings and responses to domestic abuse and violence
Dermot Brady
4. Towards a systemic lens in trauma work
Arlette Kavanagh & Auður Guðmundsdóttir
5. Socially excluded, disadvantaged, exposed to trauma: It is time to look beyond the label
Dr Diane Harrison
6. The Survive/Thrive Spiral:A visual integration of Polyvagal Theory and Internal Family Systems
Ruth Culver

Section II - Complex trauma in practice
7. Reconstructing self and personhood when the assumptive world is shattered by trauma
Karla Dolinsky
8. Holding on to hope - A practitioner’s experience of working with children who have experienced sexual abuse trauma.
Sarah Palmer
9. When worlds collide - The process of embodied experience
Roderick Aungier
10. Working with a five year old child’s nightmares: A short/brief case study
Valerie Long
11. Working creatively to manage high levels of negative emotions
Isa Julgalad


Abstracts
1. What is complex trauma? by Michael Guilding.
Diagnostic criteria relating to trauma, in ICD-11 and DSM 5, are presented as lists of symp-toms with no attempt at understanding the mechanisms of trauma, or at seeing them in the context of human biological and social systems. This seriously limits their usefulness to the psychological therapist. This paper is an attempt at such an understanding, starting from the perspective of the biological fear system. It argues that trauma is an autonomic nervous system dysfunction in which fear responses cannot de-activate, and that complex trauma is the chronic failure of fear system de-activation and the impact of this failure on a wide range of other systems with detrimental consequences for physical and mental health and social integration.

2. Growing strong in limbo: Evaluating the impact of a short term dramatherapy intervention with an adolescent client seeking asylum by Sasha Nemeckova
The purpose of this paper is to examine and evaluate the impact of a short-term dramather-apy intervention with an adolescent client seeking asylum. An overview of literature of recent writing in psychoanalysis, psychology, intercultural therapy and dramatherapy provides a brief summary of the psychological impact of forced migration on the adolescent asylum seeking population, highlighting in particular the simultaneous impact of the upheavals of identity asso-ciated with adolescence, migration and trauma. A narrative case study provides a rich descrip-tion of the intervention. Qualitative content analysis was used to identify prominent themes related to client difficulties, coping strategies and engagement with dramatherapy techniques. The results of this analysis are discussed in light of prominent dramatherapy literature and the co-relation between core dramatherapy processes and the increase in the client’s coping abilities are evaluated. The study concludes that the short-term dramatherapeutic intervention was able to contribute to the enhancement of the client’s resilience, however highlights the necessity of involvement of multiple agencies in addressing the complex needs of separated asylum seeking children.

3. We need to talk: differential understandings and responses to domestic abuse and violence by Dermot Brady
This article summarises a presentation to the Complex Trauma Institute (CTI) in July 2020 and a subsequent online seminar. Domestic abuse is a common theme when considering complex trauma, as Herman (1989) noted and addressed by more recent researchers and commen-tators (see, e.g. Van Der Kolk, 2015). Domestic abuse is a site of knowing and not knowing, denial and action. While we can work with people who have experienced violence and abuse in their intimate relationships, the field is contested and politicised. Differential understand-ings, processes and professional remits concerning domestic abuse are addressed. In the development of responses to domestic abuse and complex trauma, early writers and activists saw their work as grounded in wider social movements. Over time neoliberal discourses and practices have become dominant, replacing the idea of social change as the part of remit of the state with the concept of government as a minimalist actor supporting free markets. Ne-oliberalism is arguably inimical to the delivery of public services and this has implications for those who have experienced complex trauma. An understanding of the different professional languages, research and practices in use, in tandem with an understanding of the importance of how services are funded, designed and delivered have implications for both practitioners and more broadly in Herman’s terms, those in need of safety, remembering and mourning, and commonality.

4. Towards a systemic lens in trauma work by Arlette Kavanagh & Auður Guðmundsdóttir
Research and treatment in the context of trauma are situated largely within the context of an individual. This article invites practitioners working in trauma care and treatment to incorporate a systems lens into their practice. It offers a bringing together of ideas, both of individual treat-ment and the wider consideration of the family system and the relational aspects of trauma. The article offers some ideas and tools that could easily be applied to an individualised model to bring a systemic lens to trauma work.

5. Socially excluded, disadvantaged, exposed to trauma: It is time to look beyond the label by Dr Diane Harrison
Research into the subject of probation is often limited to professional perspectives and it rarely portrays the views of the service user. Harrison (2020) conducted a qualitative study looking at access to mental health services, education and vocational training by those supervised by probation. The study conducted twelve in-depth semi-structured interviews with young men aged 18-25 who were being supervised by the probation service. Findings from this study pro-vided an insight into the participants’ lives and their experiences of accessing these services. Additionally, the study recognised a high prevalence of childhood trauma; 90% of the par-ticipants had experienced multiple adverse childhood experiences. Excerpts/qualitative data from the Harrison (2020) study, demonstrate the range of adverse childhood experiences that those who become involved with the criminal justice system have been exposed to. Further-more, discrimination and ostracisation are discussed to highlight the impact of rejection and social exclusion that these young men experience. In this article, I advocate for these young men not to be labelled and discriminated against but to be treated as individuals who are sur-vivors of trauma and who can be supported to move forward toward positive life outcomes, by ensuring appropriate services are provided.

6. The Survive/Thrive Spiral: A visual integration of Polyvagal Theory and Internal Family Systems by Ruth Culver
Polyvagal Theory (Porges, 2011) and Internal Family Systems (Schwartz, 1995) are two mod-els gaining significant attention within the growth in awareness of complex trauma and its profound and simultaneous effects on the mind and body. This article introduces ‘The Sur-vive/Thrive Spiral’ (referred to in the text as ‘Spiral’) - my infographic exploring the parallels between two of our primary systems of protection: the nervous system, viewed through the lens of Stephen Porges’ (2011) Polyvagal Theory, and the psychological system, represented by Richard Schwartz’s (1995) Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS). The ‘Spiral’ offers a reference tool for exploring how trauma affects the psyche and facilitates mindful awareness of the brain–body connection. It illustrates how these two protective systems are interdepend-ent, each constantly reflecting and influencing the other. This article outlines how the graphic came into being and offers case studies demonstrating how it can support clients to develop increased calm and self-compassion.

Part II
7. Reconstructing self and personhood when the assumptive world is shattered by trauma by Karla Dolinsky
Healing complex trauma often involves many layers of therapeutic processing. At times, the trauma event can be processed, and the client reports feeling better or ‘healed from the event’, yet symptoms may linger. The author presents an intervention of a series of questions aimed at reconstructing the sense of self and personhood when the assumptive world is shattered by trauma.

8. Holding on to hope - A practitioner’s experience of working with children who have experienced sexual abuse trauma by Sarah Palmer
This experiential article discusses my work as a National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) practitioner with children who experience complex trauma due to sexual abuse. The article discusses my initial thoughts and expectations around working with this client group and how my assumptions were challenged by my experiences with the children I worked with.
Using an example from practice, the article illustrates the importance of understanding phys-ical, emotional and relational transference and countertransference to help children process and give voice to emotions and experiences that they are unable to verbalise. The article also looks at the emotional and physical impact of working with children who have experienced sexual abuse upon me and outlines the importance of self-awareness, good supervision, and self-care to understand my own needs and practice safely and effectively.

9. When worlds collide - The process of embodied experience by Roderick Aungier
As humans, we have undergone constant evolution in body, mind and culture. As therapists, we broadly accept psychoanalytic, behavioural and humanistic/existential paradigms as the three forces operating currently within a psychotherapeutic approach. Nestling within the hu-manistic/existential approach is the idea of embodiment and embodied approaches. I present a short overview of the (process-oriented) embodied approach and the principles it has adopt-ed since it emerged on the scene. An extract from an embodied session is used to illustrate the approach and highlight the elements involved in the interaction. In particular, the idea of field theory is discussed as an important element within the embodied context.

10. Working with a five year old child’s nightmares: A short/brief case study by Valerie Long
This paper outlines the integration of the systemic, experiential, embodied reprocessing (SEER) method of trauma-informed therapy (Karpuk, Stoneham, and Davies, 2019) into my clinical practice as a Person-Centered counselor by introducing a case study in which I worked with a child’s nightmares. The case study outlines the therapeutic intervention, illustrating a creative and embodied way of working with childhood trauma.

11. Working creatively to manage high levels of negative emotions by Isa Julgalad
This paper describes the creative and sensory methods I use in my practice when working with people who have experienced trauma. One part of this article outlines emotional stress in the context of trauma and the second part describes different techniques I use for emotional regulation.

Issue 2

What is complex trauma? Part 2: Working with the body.
Michael Guilding

Nightmares, trauma and the orthodoxy of narrative
Robert Davies, Tom Stoneham & Dzmitry Karpuk

Art Psychotherapy for adults who have experienced complex trauma: An international survey
Kelly Jayne, Simon Hackett & Michael Hill

Understanding help-seeking behaviour of adults experiencing recurrent isolated
sleep paralysis: A qualitative analysis using the theory of planned behaviour
Máire McGeehan, Michelle Tomas & Jonathan Egan

What is complex trauma? Part 2: Working with the body.
Michael Guilding

Nightmares, trauma and the orthodoxy of narrative
Robert Davies, Tom Stoneham & Dzmitry Karpuk

Art Psychotherapy for adults who have experienced complex trauma: An international survey
Kelly Jayne, Simon Hackett & Michael Hill

Understanding help-seeking behaviour of adults experiencing recurrent isolated
sleep paralysis: A qualitative analysis using the theory of planned behaviour
Máire McGeehan, Michelle Tomas & Jonathan Egan

This webinar explores the issues around the challenges faced in trauma work associated with creating a workable connection with a client such that the therapeutic work can be as effective as practicable. We examine the ways in which a bridge might be established to facilitate and enhance the connection. Rod and Phillippa present an exploratory webinar with attendees invited to share experience and ideas from their own perspectives. Ideas and themes taken from various approaches are presented with the view that essentially we can all learn from each other to be as comprehensively trauma informed as possible.