During the last few years knowledge about cellular health, inflammation and the presentation of anxiety in children has provided us with a broad spectrum of information.

A new emerging diagnosis of PANS/Pandas may have been something you have heard about? Perhaps your clients present with symptoms like Tics, Tourettes, Anxiety and more and you would like to find out more about this topic?

Of course we are not here to label children, however the overlap between autoimmune disorders and mental health cannot be ignored so come and join us as we explain and chat about this knowledge from a Functional Health and Medicne sector that overlaps into Psychotherapy/Counselling.

CV-19 has, and will continue to have an impact on the physical health of our clients and some may develop an autoimmune issue because of this, some may already have deep rooted trauma and the presentation of this biologically can result in autoimmune issues.

Graham Music, Catherine Knibbs and Marnie Clayton bring a conversation not to be missed with levels of expertise and practice in these spheres as well as having a dialogue to consider the issues we may need to look out for over the coming months and years.

Discovering What Works In Counselling and Psychotherapy workshop with Mick Cooper

Disability Psychotherapy Ireland and Callan Institute, St. John of God Community Services clg. are pleased to bring you a series of six monthly webinars which started in January.

The next webinar is on:

Friday May 14th, 2021 at 10.00am - 11.30am.

Cost: €10 for two remaining sessions of series.

This webinar series considers the emotional wellbeing of children and adults with Intellectual Disability, their families, carers and professionals, as we all live with Covid 19.

Each webinar will explore emotional wellbeing in the context of change, loss and uncertainty; provide detailed guidance on how best to support emotional wellbeing through our conversations, our play, our activities, our supports and decision making. Self-care and reflection will also be examined.

Our next webinar presenter is:

 

Sorca McGrath, MA, PG Dip. Creative Supervision, MIAPTP.

Sorca McGrath is a psychotherapist, play therapist and creative supervisor working in private practice and she is also a co-founder and co- director of The Relate Ability Centre, a training and therapeutic centre created to meet the needs of vulnerable populations and all those who work with them; children in care, children and adults supported by disability services, hard to reach clients, those who are non verbal, clients with DID, and people living with complex trauma.

Sorca has also worked extensively with therapeutic groups in disability settings, focussing on an embodied approach to emotional regulation and wellbeing.

Presentation: Play - Symbolic engagements for integration of experience and good mental health.

In this webinar we will look at how to support emotional wellbeing using metaphor and symbolic worlds; tuning in to where our clients are drawn to symbol; and looking at how to play out concerns, integrate experiences and play out solutions using symbols and metaphorical narratives.

We will develop a toolbox for practitioners to use with their clients as well as themselves, to nurture self care and a reflective practice.

Chair: Caroline Dench

 

Our forthcoming speakers:

June 18th: Dr. Brendan McCormack, Psychiatrist

For more information email: [email protected] or [email protected]

For at least 70 years, critics of the field of psychotherapy have observed that one of the major roles of the therapist is to make their clients more compliant and productive citizens. Despite numerous attempts at reform, psychotherapy has yet to adequately address this criticism. This group is for practitioners, clinicians, and all interested parties who are skeptical of the ideological commitments maintained and enforced by psychotherapy and related fields. With the understanding that it is impossible to remain ideologically neutral, we will join together in an open forum to discuss:

• The inhumane catastrophe that are modern definitions of mental health and illness.
• The methods psychotherapy uses to make its participants ideal Capitalist subjects.
• Ways of moving forward without giving up or giving in.

The facilitator will provide PDFs/ links of any readings.

Session 4: Psychotherapy Across Time

Session 3: Psychotherapy Across Space

Session 2: Why Mental Health is a Political Issue

Session 1: The Myth of Mental Illness

For at least 70 years, critics of the field of psychotherapy have observed that one of the major roles of the therapist is to make their clients more compliant and productive citizens. Despite numerous attempts at reform, psychotherapy has yet to adequately address this criticism. This group is for practitioners, clinicians, and all interested parties who are skeptical of the ideological commitments maintained and enforced by psychotherapy and related fields. With the understanding that it is impossible to remain ideologically neutral, we will join together in an open forum to discuss:

• The inhumane catastrophe that are modern definitions of mental health and illness.
• The methods psychotherapy uses to make its participants ideal Capitalist subjects.
• Ways of moving forward without giving up or giving in.

The facilitator will provide PDFs/ links of any readings.

Session 4: Psychotherapy Across Time

Session 3: Psychotherapy Across Space

Session 2: Why Mental Health is a Political Issue

Session 1: The Myth of Mental Illness

For at least 70 years, critics of the field of psychotherapy have observed that one of the major roles of the therapist is to make their clients more compliant and productive citizens. Despite numerous attempts at reform, psychotherapy has yet to adequately address this criticism. This group is for practitioners, clinicians, and all interested parties who are skeptical of the ideological commitments maintained and enforced by psychotherapy and related fields. With the understanding that it is impossible to remain ideologically neutral, we will join together in an open forum to discuss:

• The inhumane catastrophe that are modern definitions of mental health and illness.
• The methods psychotherapy uses to make its participants ideal Capitalist subjects.
• Ways of moving forward without giving up or giving in.

The facilitator will provide PDFs/ links of any readings.

Session 4: Psychotherapy and the Society of Control

Session 3: Psychotherapy Across Space: Healing in Pre-capitalist Cultures

Session 2: Why Mental Health is a Political Issue

Session 1: The Myth of Mental Illness

For at least 70 years, critics of the field of psychotherapy have observed that one of the major roles of the therapist is to make their clients more compliant and productive citizens. Despite numerous attempts at reform, psychotherapy has yet to adequately address this criticism. This group is for practitioners, clinicians, and all interested parties who are skeptical of the ideological commitments maintained and enforced by psychotherapy and related fields. With the understanding that it is impossible to remain ideologically neutral, we will join together in an open forum to discuss:

• The inhumane catastrophe that are modern definitions of mental health and illness.
• The methods psychotherapy uses to make its participants ideal Capitalist subjects.
• Ways of moving forward without giving up or giving in.

The facilitator will provide PDFs/ links of any readings.

Session 4: Psychotherapy and the Society of Control

Session 3: Psychotherapy Across Space: Healing in Pre-capitalist Cultures

Session 2: Why Mental Health is a Political Issue

Session 1: The Myth of Mental Illness

Person-centred therapy is a wonderfully rich set of therapeutic approaches. This workshop will introduce participants to this diverse and colourful field, from its roots in the non-directive counselling of Carl Rogers to its many different contemporary forms.

 

Our journey through the tribes of person-centred therapy will include the classical non-directive approach, focusing, emotion-focused therapy, creative person-centred practices, pre-therapy, person-centred experiential counselling for depression, motivational interviewing, relational approaches, and integrative/pluralistic perspective. For each of these tribes, we will explore their development and core assumptions; and participants will have an opportunity to get a lived ‘feel’ of these approaches through videos of practice and/or experiential exercises.

 

This workshop is particularly orientated to students or practitioners of the person-centred approach who have—or are developing—a good understanding of the core assumptions and practice, but would like to know more of the diversity that the approach offers. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to recognise the main perspectives on person-centred therapy, and be able to articulate differences and similarities between the tribes.

 

The workshop will be delivered fully online via Zoom, and combine self-reflective exercises with theoretical input and large group interaction.

 

To support practitioners in this time of extraordinary circumstances we are offering access to this group for a self-select fee. Please contribute what you can so that the group is accessible for all colleagues.

 

We are asking all attendees to commit for the full training. Also, all registrants should ensure that, if they are not able to attend the workshop, they de-register, so that spaces are freed up for other members of the community.

 

The workshop is appropriate for training and practising counsellors, psychotherapists, counselling psychologists and other mental health professionals.

In the time of covid all of us are facing a shared awareness of mortality and human fragility. Each day moral decisions are made over steps towards or away from the fear of contamination and death. With adults losing money, health and hope, how does this impinge on children? How does this environment affect children who were already showing signs of hurt? What new problems does it evoke? And for children who did not previously experience major problems, how quickly do they fall into this negative vortex? Having a trauma-informed way of thinking and working is a relational way that helps to reduce the toxic impact of blame and shame. It also is applied to all of us as wounded healers sharing this uncertain time.

Dr Valerie Sinason is a poet, writer, retired child psychotherapist, and adult psychoanalyst. She helped to pioneer the field of disability psychotherapy and serves as founding President of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability. She is also the founder and Patron of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies in London and has worked extensively with severely traumatised individuals suffering from dissociative identity disorder. Previously, Dr Sinason worked as a Consultant Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, the Portman Clinic, the Anna Freud Centre, and St. George’s Hospital Medical School in the University of London.

Her many books include Mental Handicap and the Human Condition: New Approaches from the Tavistock, now in its second edition.

Publications include:

The Truth about Trauma and Dissociation: Everything You Didn't Want to Know and Were Afraid to Ask

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy After Child Abuse: The Treatment of Adults and Children Who Have Experienced Sexual Abuse, Violence, and Neglect in Childhood

Mental Handicap and the Human Condition: An Analytic Approach to Intellectual Disability

Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder

Dr. Joe Tafur will discuss the traditional role of psychedelic and plant medicine practices that nourish spiritual and emotional well-being. Drawing from his experience with ayahuasca curanderismo and traditional Amazonian plant medicine, Dr. Tafur will describe spiritual healing techniques that influence emotional biology, exploring associated evidence in the fields of psychoneuroimmunology and epigenetics. Through sharing stories and engaging current research, Dr. Tafur will further relate spiritual healing to transformative experiences observed in clinical investigations in the emerging field of psychedelic psychotherapy.

Joe Tafur, M.D., is a Colombian-American family physician originally from Phoenix, Arizona. After completing his family medicine training at UCLA, Dr. Tafur spent two years in academic research at the UCSD Department of Psychiatry in a lab focused on mind-body medicine. After his research fellowship, over a period of six years, he lived and worked in the Peruvian Amazon at the traditional healing center Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual. There he worked closely with master Shipibo shaman Ricardo Amaringo and trained in ayahuasca shamanism. In his book "The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor's Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine," through a series of stories, Dr. Tafur shares his unique experience and integrative medical theories. He leads the nonprofit organization Modern Spirit which is currently investigating the epigenetic impact of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. To learn more about his work, visit drjoetafur.com and modernspirit.org.

This event is sponsored by the Naropa Psychedelic Studies program.

A Zoom link will be sent upon registration.

Naropa University welcomes participants with disabilities. Persons with questions about accessibility or who require disability accommodations should contact Kristin Anderson-Bohan at [email protected] at least two weeks prior to the event.

Mental Health Professionals: $90
Seton Hall Alumni: $45
Graduate Students: $30
Current Primary Supervisors of Seton Hall Graduate Students: No Charge

Please note that you will receive a PayPal link in your email after your register so please double check your email address is correct. Also, PayPal now allows people to pay as a guest using a credit card without having a PayPal account. You will see that option on the main PayPal page when you click the link in your email.

A 50% refund is available for cancellations up to 7 days prior to the event.

Registration and continental breakfast begins at 8:30 a.m. Lunch will be provided for current primary supervisors of SHU graduate students at 12:00 pm.

This program will provide 5 hours of continuing education. This program is co-sponsored by NJPA and Seton Hall University. NJPA is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. NJPA maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Program Narrative:

Despite the necessity for graduate students in training to be supervised by licensed clinical supervisors, and the abundant theory and science on the meaningfulness of this endeavor, little is known about how effective supervision is conducted, moment by moment. Only in the past 20 years have authors explored “good,” “effective,” or “competent” supervision practices as compared to “poor,” “harmful” or “inadequate” supervision (e.g., Ellis et al., 2014; Nelson & Friedlander, 2001). Moreover, there is little empirical research on what takes place in supervision that has a positive impact on graduate trainees as well as on their psychotherapy clients.

What is known is that the most effective supervisors move fluently between focusing on the therapeutic processes as described by the supervisee and the supervision process as experienced by the supervisee. In both contexts, the relationship is critical. Supervisees in training need specific guidance to navigate the two relationships – about how supervisors effectively move back and forth between the two relationships, focusing at times on a supervisee’s relationships with clients and at times on the supervisory relationship itself. How do supervisors decide which relationship to focus on at what moment? How can supervisors simultaneously be responsive to their supervisees and to the clients of these supervisees (Friedlander, 2012, 2015), particularly when problems arise in either relationship?

Compared to other theoretical models of supervision, the transtheoretical Critical Events (CE) model (Ladany, Friedlander, & Nelson, 2005, 2016) was designed to address these issues. Based on a task analytic, or event-based, model of psychotherapy process, the CE model provides a roadmap, so to speak, about how to address commonly occurring problematic events in supervision, such as when a supervisee has a crisis in confidence, reports feeling attracted to a client, or is having difficulty with countertransference.

This workshop will begin with a definition of responsive interpersonal supervision in the context of the CE model. Participants will first learn to identify supervision “tasks” and the conceptual basis of the model (i.e., its three components in addressing critical tasks in supervision). Next, participants will be introduced to the CE model’s 11 “interactional strategies” for resolving a critical event. To bring the material alive, students will have the opportunity to observe several of these strategies in video clips from the 11 supervision sessions in APA’s Master Video Series on Psychotherapy Supervision, which were conducted by experts in the field, including Nicholas Ladany, the first author of the CE model.

During the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to discuss dilemmas they have encountered in their own practice of supervision from the perspective of the CE model. Time permitting, role plays will enhance learning of the model.

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Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the theoretical underpinnings of the Critical Events model of psychotherapy supervision.
2. Describe at least five critical events that commonly occur in supervision.
3. Describe the three essential components of the Critical Events conceptual model.
4. Discuss the application of the 11 interactional strategies in the Critical Events model to problematic events in their actual supervisory cases.

Program Agenda

9:00 – 10:30 : Introduction: What is responsive supervision?
Overview of the Critical Events Model of Psychotherapy Supervision

• Assumptions
• Description of the model
• Definition of tasks and events
  • in psychotherapy
  • in supervision
• Defining critical events
  • Elements in the model
  • Identification of markers
  • Common interactional sequences
  • Identification of resolutions

10:30 – 10:45 : Break

10:45 – 12:00 : Working with countertransference

12:00 – 1:00 : Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 : Working with gender and multicultural issues

2:15 – 2:30 : Break

2:30 – 3:00 : Working with the challenging supervisee; role conflict and skill deficits

3:00 – 3:30 : Putting the Model into Practice (open discussion)

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Intended Audience and Level

This presentation at the intermediate level is appropriate for psychologists, counselors, and graduate students who have some familiarity with the content.

About the Presenter

Myrna L. Friedlander, Ph.D. is a Professor and previous Training Director in the University at Albany’s Counseling Psychology program. She has co-authored four books on family therapy and clinical supervision, as well as more than 150 publications, book chapters and empirical articles. Dr. Friedlander is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 17, 29, and 43). In 2001 she was elected Distinguished Psychologist of the Year by the Psychological Association of Northeastern New York, and in 1999 she was honored with the University at Albany’s Excellence in Research award. In 2010 Dr. Friedlander received a Lifetime Contribution Award from the Section for the Promotion of Psychotherapy Science (Div. 17, APA) and a Distinguished Family Systems Research Award from the American Family Therapy Academy.

Proprietary Information: NJPA ensures that permission to use proprietary information, and steps to safeguard such information, are discussed with presenters at NJPA co-sponsored programs. No materials (physical or electronic) provided to attendees at such programs may be shared.

Americans with Disabilities Act: Seton Hall University makes our CE programs accessible to individuals with disabilities, according to the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Please contact Peggy Farrelly, Ph.D., at [email protected] if special accommodation is required.

This program did not receive any commercial support, and there are no conflicts of interest to report.

This conference is supported in part through generous contributions from Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Hanbury and Dr. Mark Chae.

Trauma Informed Care & Approaches: A DAY WITH KARYN HARVEY, PH.D. Dr. Harvey will address trauma in the lives of people with developmental disabilities.

Este evento será traducido simultanemente al Español!

Dr. Karyn Harvey brings 25 years experience as a psychologist and psychotherapist and an author. Karyn's engaging and dynamic presentation style will captivate you.

Could some of the reactions we describe as behavior problems really be a past trauma response? Dr. Harvey states:“In this field, we so often focus on behaviors as though the behavior is driving the person and the behavior is the issue when it’s really a symptom.And what it’s often a symptom of is posttraumatic stress disorder.”

There are so many sources of trauma that people with developmental disabilities have experienced throughout their lives. Even in ideal circumstances, there’s typically some trauma and trauma has its effects. Dr. Harvey will provide a perspective on what it means for both caregivers and the system as a whole to be more “trauma-informed.”

You will hear about:

• The causes of trauma & its effects on both a biological & psychiatric level.

• Ways in which healing occurs. (Addressed on multiple levels)

• Ways to facilitate recovery, growth, and happiness. An approach to positive behavior change, based on both trauma recovery,

• and positive identity development.

Who Should Attend?

Service Coordinators, Direct Support Professionals, Educators, Clinicians, Behavior Specialists, Families and others who work with individuals with developmental disabilities. In an interview, Karyn stated: "So there are so many sources of trauma that people with intellectual disabilities have experienced throughout their lives.

"Even in the most ideal circumstances, there’s typically some trauma. And trauma has its effects. A lot of times it does manifest behaviorally and they are communicating. It might be: “Don’t hurt me like the last staff, like the last person. And I’ll hurt you before you hurt me, so you’ll stay away from me.”"

The full interview is found at http://hogg.utexas.edu/responding-to-trauma-an-interview-with-dr-karyn-harvey

Watch a 1-hour webinar on this topic that Dr. Harvey held for PHP at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5678826209649037827

**NO Refunds with cancellation under 7 days.**

Lunch is on your own.
Snacks, coffee/tea and water provided.

 

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