Disability Psychotherapy Ireland and Callan Institute, St. John of God Community Services clg. are pleased to bring you a series of six monthly webinars starting on:
Friday January 15th, 2021 at 10.00am - 11.30am.
Cost: €30 for the full series of six webinars.
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.
The first webinar will feature Dr Valerie Sinason, PhD PGTC MACP M Inst Psychoanal a poet, writer, child psychotherapist and adult psychoanalyst. She was Founder Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, until her retirement from long-term clinical work in December 2016. She is registered with the BPC, ACP and UKCP. Dr. Sinason specialised in work with abused, abusing and dissociative patients, including those with a learning disability, and has been used as an expert witness in court cases. Dr Sinason is also renowned for her ground breaking work with children and adults with intellectual disabilities which has had a transformative impact upon both a generation of clinicians, and the treatment and services delivered by them. She continues with writing, supervising and short term assessments and she will share her latest book with us.
A more detailed programme will be available in early January 2021 for our forthcoming speakers:
Dr. Eimir McGrath, Psychotherapist & Play Therapist; Caroline Dench, Psychologist; Paul Moore, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist; Sorca McGrath, Psychotherapist & Play Therapist; and Dr. Brendan McCormack, Psychiatrist
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