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TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

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Training Update for Independent Sexual Violence Advisers (ISVAs) and ISVA Service Managers

The Survivors Trust Specialist Training for

Independent Sexual Violence Advisor Practitioners - NEW DATES!!!!

If you are interested in knowing about future TST ISVA practitioner training courses, please contact Sarah at sarah.cheadle@thesurvivorstrust.org to be added to the ISVA info circulation list.

Home Office ISVA Training Fund

We have confirmed with the Home Office that our training meets the requirements set by the Home Office ISVA Training Fund.

The Survivors Trust Accredited Training for ISVAs and ISVA Service Managers meets the National Occupational Standards for Preventing and Tackling Domestic and Sexual abuse and Violence (until December 2011). The Survivors Trust is participating in the development of the new National Occupational Standards for Providing Independent Sexual Violence Advice and Advocacy (from December 2012).

The Survivors Trust ISVA Training Programme has been developed by leading professionals within the field of service provision for victims/survivors of sexual violence and abuse and with advice and input from the ISVA Leads for Rape Crisis England and Wales and a range of specialist sexual violence support services.

The ISVA Training Programme has been specifically designed to provide key learning outcomes and course material to ensure participants are equipped to meet the requirements, demands and challenges of delivering effective ISVA practice and provision for working with victims and survivors of all forms of sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse.

Course Dates

Session 1 Foundation Skills and Knowledge for ISVAs 28th and 29th September 2011
Session 2 Planning and Protection 2nd and 3rd November 2011
Session 3 Effective Partnerships 7th and 8th December 2011
Session 4 Communication, Diversity and Equality 4th and 5th January 2012
Session 5 ISVAs in Action - Court and Beyond 8th and 9th February 2012

The above dates have been arranged for delivery of the ISVA Training Course, and we will make every attempt to adhere to these. However, these may be subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances.

The aims of the ISVA Practitioner Programme are:

1. To provide high quality training specific to the role of ISVA working with rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse and childhood sexual abuse;

2. To equip ISVA practitioners with the information and skills they need to work effectively for and on behalf of their clients and to provide a clear understanding of the role of an ISVA including partnership working and inter-agency work on sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse;

3. To promote and work on the principle that this Programme is recognised nationally for practice working with sexual violence and abuse issues;

4. To ensure all victims of sexual crime gain appropriate care and provision to help towards the recovery process.

Previous participants have commented:

"I found the course has increased my knowledge around rape and sexual assault, and I now feel more confident in my ability to work with these clients."

"I felt the course was a worthwhile, positive experience that has impacted positively on my practice."

"I found all the tutors and guest speakers very knowledgeable on their subjects, and approachable."

Entry Requirements

Participation in this course will involve use of IT and internet systems, including Word, Excel and Internet Explorer. If this will pose any difficulties, please contact Fay Maxted on 01788 550554 to discuss.

Acceptance on the ISVA Training Programme is conditional upon participants being supported to attend the course by the organisation they are employed by.

If the course is oversubscribed, preference will be given to applicants from The Survivors Trust member organisations who are currently working as ISVAs. The Survivors Trust reserves the right to allocate places.

Please note that it is the individual student that is registered as a learner and not the organisation.

Further information on the Independent Sexual Violence Advisor Practitioner Training programme can be found here

Course Fees

Organisational member of TST: £1,900

Registered charity non organisational member of TST: £2000

Statutory agency: £2000

Training Venue

Training takes place at our offices in Rugby, Warwickshire, which are situated within walking distance of Rugby Train Station and the Town Centre. Parking is available.

Lunch and all refreshments are included in the course fees.

Unit 2 Eastlands Court Business Centre
St Peter's Road
Rugby, CV21 3QP

For a map of the training venue, please click here

Accommodation

There are a number of independent hotels located in Rugby within walking distance of Eastlands Court Business Centre.

In addition, The Survivors Trust has negotiated a preferential rate with Premier Inn (Rugby North Newbold) of £71.00 per night including breakfast. Premier Inn is around a 10 minute car or taxi journey from TST HQ.

Please contact The Survivors Trust for the reference number to book your stay with Premier Inn.

Registration

To register, please complete the Learner Registration form and return to Sarah Cheadle at sarah.cheadle@thesurvivorstrust.org

Training for Service Managers -
Independent Sexual Violence Advisor Service

The Survivors Trust ISVA Service Manager Training Programme has been developed by leading professionals within the field of service provision for victims/survivors of sexual violence and abuse and with advice and input from the ISVA Leads for Rape Crisis England and Wales and a range of specialist sexual violence support services.

Session 1: Establishing an ISVA Service - Individuals, Agencies and Partnerships 22nd and 23rd November 2011
Session 2: Operational and Legal Requirements for Delivering ISVA Services 14th and 15th February 2012

Aims of ISVA Service Manager Course:

1. To equip ISVA Service Managers with knowledge and understanding of operational and legal frameworks and legislation that apply to the provision of an Independent Sexual Violence Advisor Service;

2. To provide ISVA Service Managers with knowledge and understanding of appropriate case management and data monitoring processes for an ISVA Service;

3. To develop awareness of the role and responsibilities of ISVA Service Manager with regard to day-to-day management and ongoing support for the ISVA;

4. To develop awareness of effective partnership working with related services.

Training Venue

Unit 2 Eastlands Court Business Centre
St Peter's Road
Rugby, CV21 3QP

Course Costs

TST organisational member: £500.00

Registered charity non organisational member of TST: £530.00

Statutory agency: £560.00

To register please complete the Learner Registration Form and forward to Sarah Cheadle at:

sarah.cheadle@thesurvivorstrust.org

For more information or to discuss any aspect of the ISVA Service Manager Training Programme, please contact Sarah Cheadle at sarah.cheadle@thesurvivorstrust.org or telephone 01788 550554.

TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN OUR NETWORK

Workshop CPD Training with
Christianne Sanderson
Working with Complex/Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Christianne is the author of The Warrior Within, Counselling Survivors of Domestic Violence on
Saturday 22nd October 2011
Assembly Halls, 18 Gates Green Road
West Wickham, BR4 9JW
10.45am - 5.45pm

Streetmap available at http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=539975&Y=164977&A=Y&Z=110

Places are limited and are on a first come first served basis
The impact and long term effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse are increasingly seen within the context of Complex PTSD. This workshop will examine the difference between PTSD and Complex PTSD and how counselors can best work with survivors of CSA.
The fundamental principles of Safe Trauma Therapy will be explored along with exercises that will restore control lover trauma reactions.
In addition, the importance of the counsellor's self care will be addressed to minimize secondary traumatic stress.

The cost for this workshop is £25.00 (this includes a ploughman's lunch)

Please click here for further information and click here for the ISVA Service Manager Training Programme booking form

Asylum Associates & MMU Present a Three Day Congress
Understanding and Working with the Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse

8th, 9th & 10th November 2011, Center Parcs, Sherwood Forest, Nottingham NG22 9DN

Child sexual abuse is a global problem that has long term negative effects on many women and men. This congress will highlight some of the emotional, mental and physical problems that are associated with child sexual abuse. Key issues including abuser tactics, victims, frozen terror, visions and voices, dissociative identities, self injury. The aim of this congress is to consider how such experiences impact on children and the adults they become, and to identify ways that help those who are victimized to survive and recover

Speakers include:
Samantha Warner, Marius Romme, Sandra Escher, Ron Coleman, Peter Bullimore, Mike Lew, Bob Johnson, Simon Mullins, Kate Crawford, Rufus May, Clare Shaw, Sarah Nelson, Gail Coleman, Jacqui Dillon, Paul Hammersley, Bernie Ryan, Carol Ashcroft and Kim Doyle

Some of the topics included will be

Self Harm, Hearing Voices, Paranoia, Dissociative Identities, Spirituality and CSA
Physical effects of CSA, Tactics of CSA, The Law and Sexual Assault, Suicide Prevention, Bi Polar and CSA, Children and Voices, Male Survivors, Supporting Families of CSA, Working with Fear and Trauma

Please click here for further information

Eaves' Scarlet Centre in south London offers advice, support, counselling, and other services to women from across London. We've got an exciting range of free workshops and events coming up this autumn, including:

• Free and low cost qualifications advice - Hillcroft College at Eaves
• Understanding and managing panic attacks
• Complementary therapies for women affected by violence
• Communicating with confidence
• One to one computer training for beginners
• Weekly yoga and meditation
• How to access health services
• Moving on and managing change
• Healthy body, healthy life - Health day extravaganza
• Scarlet centre grand launch party - details to be announced!

Full details can be found by clicking here, call 020 7840 7142 to book now!

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES OUTSIDE OF OUR MEMBERSHIP NETWORK

"Dissociation, Trauma and Time-Travelling ... or Living and Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder"
a joint Deep Release & TASC Training Day
with Hazel Barton, Jane Potts & Carolyn Spring

• 10 September in Hemel Hempstead, Herts
• 29 October in Cardiff, Wales
• 10 December in Preston, Lancs

Cost: between £40.00 and £60.00 per person depending on venue
9.30 - 5.00 pm

Suitable for counsellors, therapists, survivors, partners, pastoral workers, Rape Crisis Centre staff, and anyone else interested or involved in the field of sexual abuse, trauma and dissociation

COURSE OVERVIEW
Carolyn Spring worked therapeutically with children for nearly ten years. And then all of a sudden, at the peak of her career, she had an unexpected and debilitating breakdown. From working as a professional in a multi-agency team, she suddenly found herself unable to sleep, eat, think or work. At times she was barely able to speak, and when she did so it was in a four-year-old's voice, pleading not to be hurt. She began what felt like a series of 'time-travels', back into the past, then suddenly forwards again into the present. She would realise that she was miles from home, with no memory of how she had got there. She felt like she was stepping in and out of the TARDIS in Doctor Who.

What had happened? Had she gone mad? Where had the competent professional gone, and was this regressed child-adult here to stay? Could she get better? What would happen to her?
That was over five years ago. Carolyn is now walking down a path of increasing healing, having been diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder as a result of extreme childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse. Using her story as a basis, and expanding out into the experiences from 'the other side' of two leading therapists, this training day will explore the mechanisms of dissociation and DID, the effect of trauma on the body and brain, the reality and therapeutic minefields of disorganised attachment, and how healing and recovery can be possible through appropriate therapeutic work.

The training will be led by Hazel Barton and Dr Jane Potts, two therapists experienced in the field of trauma and dissociation, as well as by Carolyn herself. It will be a fascinating day full of insights into both living and working with Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Please note that some content may be triggering for survivors but attempts will be made throughout the day to give advance warning

For further information or to book please go to www.tasc-online.org.uk/training.html

PODS (Partners of Dissociative Survivors) Workshop

‘Living with Dissociation'

Running on:

• 17 September in Huntingdon, Cambs
• 1 October in Hemel Hempstead, Herts
• 26 November in Sutton Coldfield, West Mids

led by Rob & Carolyn Spring (www.pods-online.org.uk for booking)

Suitable for:

• Anyone suffering from a dissociative disorder or experiencing dissociation
• Survivors of sexual abuse or trauma
• Partners, friends, family members, supporters of dissociative survivors
• Therapists, counsellors, Rape Crisis Centre staff, helpline/telephone volunteers
• Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Community Psychiatric Nurses, GPs
• Social Workers, Family Workers, other Social Care staff

Cost: £45.00 per person / £75.00 for a survivor + partner/supporter
9.30 am - 5.30 pm

For further information and booking details for all dates:

email: info@pods-online.org.uk
web: www.pods-online.org.uk
phone: 01480 878409

European Society for Trauma & Dissociation, UK Network
Practical Training for People in Practice

Reaching for Relationship : An attachment-based approach to work with dissociation
A 4 day continuing professional development course designed and led by Sue Richardson, UKCP registered Attachment-based Psychotherapist.

Is this course for you?

This course is designed for practitioners of any discipline who are already working with dissociative clients and have some prior training in this area of work. It aims to help people to enhance their practice by exploring ways of working with complex issues and sharing creative interventions. Some prior knowledge of attachment theory is helpful but not essential: pre-course reading will be suggested and the course will begin with an overview and refresher re attachment concepts. Numbers will be limited to 12 participants.

This CPD course will appeal to those of you who:

• would like to sharpen and extend your ability to work with dissociative clients
• work with clients who have suffered particularly severe childhood trauma
• enjoy developing your own synthesis of theory and practice
• would like to reflect on your own role as a professional caregiver
• welcome peer feedback and support
• are excited when something you have read sheds light on your work
• would like to further develop your ability to connect creatively with clients
• value the unique perspective of experts by experience
• are happy to learn from your mistakes!

Aims
1. To explore the application of an attachment framework to work with trauma and dissociation.
2. To review the use of other therapeutic modalities with which practitioners may be familiar in the light of clients who have suffered severe attachment trauma.
3. To integrate consideration of organised and extreme forms of abuse throughout the course e.g ritual abuse. [over]

Outline of course content (Details on UK page of the ESTD website (www.estd.org)

• Traumatic attachment
• Dissociative system as an attachment system: Assessment and repair.
• Reaching for relationship: Attachment to the perpetrator, the therapist and significant others; exploring internal attachment.
• Using creative interventions to repair attachment trauma.
• Our needs and issues as professional careseekers and caregivers.

Learning outcomes. By the end of the course, participants will:

1. Be familiar with the nature and impact of attachment trauma.
2. Have been introduced to the concept of the internal attachment system
3. Have undertaken an in-depth exploration of the attachment trauma suffered by a specific client(s), its assessment and repair.
4. Be able to devise therapeutic strategies for individual clients.
5. Have critically reviewed some of the relevant literature.
6. Have gained knowledge and insight from experts by experience.
7. Have considered the therapeutic implications of organised/extreme abuse.

Method

The main emphasis is on drawing out and sharing practice experiences and putting them in an attachment framework. Sessions will include theoretical in-put, exercises/discussions, application to participant's own cases, case presentations and hearing from experts by experience. Participants will be expected to undertake some reading as part of their learning.

About the trainer: Sue has over 30 years experience in the helping professions and is a member of the John Bowlby Centre. She has integrated her extensive knowledge of child abuse into her work with adults who have suffered attachment trauma. Sue has a special interest in the study and treatment of dissociation and has been instrumental in the formation of UK networks in this field. She is a regular presenter at national and international conferences, the co-author of two books and the author of a number of published papers. Sue is in independent practice, providing training, consultation and supervision and is committed to collaborating with experts by experience.

Further details: See UK page of the ESTD website ( www.estd.org) or phone or email Sue ( T: 01642 817658 E: SueRichardson1@compuserve.com) to discuss your interest.

Dates: Friday 15 & Saturday 16 October and Friday 12 & Saturday 13 November 2010.
Venue: The Brewery Conference Centre, 116 Micklegate , York.
Cost: £380 ESTD members £440 Non ESTD members inc. lunch and refreshments. Bursaries : Available. See application form on UK page of ESTD website.
Applications: Please email a brief description of your work with dissociative client(s) and prior training in this area of work to Sue at the above address. You will be sent a booking form once your application has been accepted. More information re applications on ESTD website.

CPD Programme re working with complex trauma and dissociation
Compiled by ESTD UK Training Faculty

Overall aim: To collaborate with relevant organisations in the development of CPD training in this specialist areaof practice .
Overall learning objective: To enable practitioners from a range of disciplines and levels of experience in the helping professions to provide trauma-informed care for persons suffering from complex post-traumatic conditions and dissociation.

If you would like to see any of the courses detailed below run in your locality or organisation, please contact Sue Richardson by phone ( 01642 817658) or email SueRichardson1@compuserve.com

Courses

2 day workshop on dissociative processes and therapeutic use of self: Part 1
Trainer : Val Wosket
Learning objectives: By the end of the course, participants will:
• Understand the links between trauma and dissociation
• Be able to identify and respond to a range of dissociative presentations
• Understand the basic psychophysiology of trauma and dissociation
• Understand the stage oriented approach to working with trauma and dissociation and practise a range of stage one strategies for stabilisation and symptom reduction
• Develop awareness of issues impacting on the establishment of an effective working alliance with dissociative clients
• Explore the impact of the therapist's self on the client's process and develop ways of enhancing the intentional and effective use of self with dissociative clients
• Understand the limits of their own competence and the importance of attending to their needs for supervision, training and support in working with trauma and dissociation

No previous experience or working with complex stress and dissociation is required for this course.

1 day workshop: Understanding Dissociation
Trainers : First Person Plural
Learning objectives:
By the end of the day, participants will have:
• Raised their awareness of dissociation and its role in surviving trauma
• Considered the impact on the survivor of non- recognition
• Been introduced to screening tools
• Gained practical ideas for supporting person suffering from dissociation
• Expanded their understanding of all of the above from the survivor's perspective
This course can be freestanding or act as a linking course to Val's Stage 2 . No previous experience or working with complex stress and dissociation is required.

1 day workshop: Introduction to dissociation in children
Trainer: Renee Marks
Learning objectives:
By the end of the day, participants will understand:
• The development of self in the infant.
• The impact of the disorganized attachment on the developing self
• The impact of childhood trauma with specific reference to complex trauma.
• How children defend themselves against the disorganized attachment and childhood trauma.

No prior knowledge and experience of dissociation is required for this course. It is complements all the introductory level training and is suitable for:
• anyone wanting to an introduction to the origins of dissociation in childhood
• those who work with or care for traumatised children
• those who work with or care for traumatised adults
• those who work in fostering or adoption.

3 day workshop on dissociative processes and therapeutic use of self: Part 2
Trainer : Val Wosket
Learning objectives: By the end of the course, participants will:
By the end of the day, participants will:
• Understand and be able to recognise different degrees of trauma and dissociation
• Make an informed judgement about whether a client would benefit from a formal assessment for complex dissociative disorders, including dissociative identity disorder (DID)
• Understand the importance of establishing and maintaining an effective therapeutic frame
• Explore boundary issues and understand the importance of maintaining appropriate therapeutic boundaries with trauma clients
• Recognise patterns of secure and insecure attachment central to the client's experience
• Identify and respond appropriately to commonly experienced transference and counter-transference experiences, including the use and mis-use of self-disclosure
• Explore how to respond appropriately to issues of touch, holding and sexual material when working with dissociative and trauma clients
• Facilitate negotiation and communication between split off parts of the person (including alter personality states)
• Gain knowledge and understanding of how to effectively pace trauma narratives
• Gain a working knowledge of the SIBAM model of integrating traumatic memories
• Have some understanding of when the client may have sufficient experience of integration and/or co-operative communication with split off parts to move towards the third phase of therapy.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of their current arrangements for supervision, self-care and further training and think proactively about enhancing these where necessary.

This course is for participants who have undertaken workshop 1 on ‘dissociative process and the therapeutic use of self' or who have good understanding, experience and/or training in the phase-oriented approach to working with trauma and dissociation.

1 day workshop on assessment of dissociative conditions
Trainer : Remy Aquarone
Learning objectives:
By the end of the day, participants will:
• be able to evaluate the severity of dissociative symptoms in clients/patients
• diagnose any of the 5 Dissociative Disorders under DSM IV
• make realistic recommendations for treatment based on the assessment.
This course is for participants with or without prior experience of working with trauma and dissociation. It complements all of the introductory training courses above and is especially suitable for those whose role includes the assessment of mental health conditions .

1 day workshop on the supervision of complex trauma and dissociation
Trainer : Sue Richardson
Learning objectives:
By the end of the day, participants will have:
• Explored an attachment -based perspective of the supervisory process
• Examined the impact of traumatic material on professional caregiving and careseeking as a supervisor and/or supervisee
• Considered challenges to ethical and practice frameworks posed by work with complex trauma
• Been provided with peer support and consultation
Some experience of working with or supervising work with complex stress and/or dissociation is required for this course. No previous knowledge of attachment theory is necessary.

1 day workshop on working with complex trauma and dissociation: Impact on the practitioner
Trainer : Sue Richardson
Learning objectives: By the end of the day, participants will:
• Understand the concept of secondary traumatic stress as a natural response to working
with traumatised and troubled clients.
• Be able to explain the differences and similarities between secondary traumatic stress
compassion stress, compassion fatigue, burnout, PTSD and vicarious traumatisation.
• Have undertaken a self assessment
• Have tools for preventing the development of secondary stress symptoms

This course complements all of the above proposals.

1 day workshop: Attachment and Dissociation
Trainer : Sue Richardson

Learning objectives: By the end of the day, participants will:

• understand the developmental origins of dissociation in childhood from an
attachment perspective
• have explored different attachment patterns common to traumatised children and adults
• be able to identify attachment patterns in a dissociated person
• informed their practice with an attachment-based definition of dissociation
• Been introduced to ways of repairing attachment trauma by:
- therapeutic approaches to the dissociated self as a careseeking and caregiving system
- ways of addressing effective and ineffective external and internal careseeking and caregiving
- working with attachment to the perpetrator(s)

This course is for participants who have undertaken some prior training in working with trauma and dissociative process. It complements the 4 day training on Affect Regulation and the Use of Self (below). No previous knowledge of attachment theory is necessary.

4 day course : Affect regulation and the use of self ( 2 x 2 day blocks)
Trainer : Remy Aquarone
Learning objectives:
By the end of the course participants will:

• have a sound clinical framework for working with dissociative clients.
• understand fundamental issues of boundaries, transference and counter transference
reactions
• be able to facilitate internal communication within a dissociative inner world.
This course extends the workshops on ‘dissociative process and the therapeutic use of self'. It requires participants to be working with a dissociative client.
Complementary training resources available in collaboration with the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation ( ISSTD) and members of its UK training faculty

Note: These training modules are usually restricted to 12 -15 participants

ISSTD introductory seminar course: Complex PTSD
Length: 6 x 2.5 hour seminars at monthly intervals
Trainer : A member of ISSTD UK Faculty ( Sue Masters, Sue Richardson or Val Wosket)
Learning objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will have:
• Reviewed the history of trauma studies and explored the effects of abuse, terror, captivity, and neglect on the developing mind.
• Reviewed diagnostic categories and symptoms of acute and post-traumatic stress disorders and the dissociative disorders.
• Surveyed the neurobiology of trauma and dissociation and the role of infant attachment in developmental trauma and dissociation.
• Reviewed trauma and the organization of a dissociative self.
• Understood memory in the aftermath of trauma, phase/stage oriented trauma treatment, and working with delayed recall of memory of abuse.
• Described typical transference and counter-transference constellations, vicarious traumatization, enactment and therapist self disclosure and non-disclosure.
• Learned how to identify and maintain clinical boundaries and manage suicidal and parasuicidal behavior.
• Surveyed the legal and ethical issues in trauma treatment.
• Been provided with a brief overview of specialized treatment methods: cognitive-behavioral treatments, hypnosis, EMDR, somatic approaches, interpersonal, intersubjective, and psychodynamic approaches.

This course complements Val's 2 day workshop on dissociative processes and therapeutic use of self: Part 1 by providing a more extensive grounding in theoretical and practice frameworks. It is preferable for participants to be working with complex stress or dissociation. .

ISSTD Standard seminar course: Assessment and treatment of dissociation
Length: 9 x 2.5 hour seminars at monthly intervals
Trainer : A member of ISSTD UK Faculty ( Sue Masters, Sue Richardson or Val Wosket)
Learning objectives:
• To provide participants with sufficient knowledge and skills to be able to assess dissociative conditions and to provide therapeutic help.
• To provide peer support and case discussion
This course complements Val's 3 day workshop on dissociative processes and therapeutic use of self: Part 2 by providing a more extensive grounding in theoretical and practice frameworks and case discussion. It requires participants to be working with a dissociative client.

ISSTD Advanced seminar course: Treatment of dissociation
Length: 9 x 2.5 hour seminars at monthly intervals
Trainer : A member of ISSTD UK Training Faculty ( Sue Richardson)
Learning objectives:
• To explore at a more advanced level the objectives of the Standard course
• To further develop skills in the treatment of dissociation
• To provide peer support and case discussion
Trainer : A member of ISSTD UK Training Faculty ( Sue Richardson)
This course complements all previous workshops and seminars on work with dissociation by providing a more extensive grounding in theoretical and practice frameworks. It requires participants to be working with a dissociative client and to have completed the ISSTD Standard course .

ISSTD seminar course: Working with dissociated children and adolescents
Length: 9 x 2.5 hour seminars at monthly intervals
Trainer : A member of ISSTD UK Training Faculty ( Renee Marks )
Learning objectives:
At the end of this experience, participants will:
• have sufficient knowledge to be able to diagnose dissociative symptoms and disorders in traumatized children and adolescents
• have essential knowledge and skills needed to conduct individual psychotherapy to treat complex trauma in children and adolescents
• be able to work with caregivers and to interface with other pertinent professionals in the child's life.
• have a comprehensive understanding of how to intervene with the traumatized child with dissociative symptoms to promote healthy development.
This is a new and pioneering course currently being piloted in the UK.
Compiled by Sue Richardson, Training Co-ordinator, ESTD UK .

If you would like to see any of these courses run in your locality or organisation, please contact Sue by phone ( 01642 817658) or email SueRichardson1@compuserve.com

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