Dissociation Training
Regular training can be offered by the centre which can be tailored for individual requirements.
Current Training
Affect Regulation, The Use & Abuse of Self Working with Complex Trauma & Dissociation
This course starts from the premise that it is us, as therapists, more than any theoretical orientation or technique that marks the progress and digresses of treatment.
This course is both self explorative, experiential and challenging. Its focus is on you, the therapist, and the impact that you will consciously and unconsciously have on your clients. Though the tutor comes from an analytical background and will use that orientation to underpin the course, your own therapeutic orientation is not in question.
This is very much 'hands on' training where the tutor will be sharing his 20 years experience in the field. Extensive use of role play, videoing, and case presentation will be made, Reading references will be given but do not constitute an obligatory part of the course. A representative for First Person Plural, a survivor led organisation, will join us for part of one day to contribute from the perspective of someone living with dissociation.
The participants will form an integral part of this contained environment in order to explore sensitively and confidentially this difficult area of work. The appropriate use of humour is mandatory!
Course format: 2 weekends (February 2nd and 3rd, 23rd & 24th) in .Kirkcaldy, Fife outside Ediburgh. Its at a beatiful location on the coast. Prior to the start of the course, participants will be expected to send to the tutor an A4 resume of their work with one client/patient with suspected significant dissociative symptoms and to outline the areas of difficulties and what they would want to learn from the course.The course itself is divided into 2 halves.
Part 1: The first half will explore Practical applications essential when working with trauma, attachment and dissociation. Participants will be actively involved through role play.
Subjects covered will include:-
The first session (assessment session or first working session)
Affect modulation in action
The differences between parenting, re-parenting, modelling, & attachment. What works, what doesn't work.
Verbal and non verbal communication
Body language to include:
The holding environment
Eye contact
Use of touch
Sexuality
Memory and neuroscience.
Treating recovered memory
Time line and historical autobiography
Limits and realistic targets
Educational Aspect of treatment
Intervention in the outside world by the therapist and the client: where other professionals fit in.
Bonding and anti-bonding alters.
And many others
Part 2:
The whole of the second half will be put aside for each participant in turn during the 2 weekends to present a detailed process recording of their client with active involvement and help from the other participants.
Cost: £250 to include food/drinks during the day but not accommodation.
Who will benefit from applying: For the most part, clinicians who can demonstrate some background experience in dissociation
If you would like to enrol, please contact:-
Kingdom Abuse Survivors Project
29 Townsend Place
Kirkcaldy
FIFE
KY1 1HB
Kirkcaldy Office Tel: 01592 644217
Cupar Office Tel: 01334 656176
Fax: 01592 644217
http://www.kasp.org.uk