Upcoming Schedule
|
Trainings & Workshops: Upcoming Schedule
"Pieces of the Puzzle" Professional Workshop Series
February - November 2010
About the Training Series
"Pieces of the Puzzle" Individual Workshops
The cost for individual workshops is $50.00 per workshop. A discount will be given to participants who wish to attend all 10 workshops. The fee for all ten workshops purchased together is $450.00.
Individual workshops will be held on Fridays from 9am until 12pm in the Skokie offices of the Center for Contextual Change.
February 12th Intro & Overview of the Collaborative Stage Model & Complex PTSD
The Collaborative Stage Model developed by Mary Jo Barrett is a cutting-edge blueprint for an effective, integrated, contextual process for treatment of individuals, groups, families, and couples. It is especially beneficial for organizing the treatment of the multi-disordered client, and clients who have Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Participants in this workshop will learn the basics of this model and also the symptoms of Complex PTSD and how to apply The Model with this population. This workshop is highly recommended for any clinicians interested in any of the subsequent workshops. Mary Jo Barrett, MSW and Anita Mandley, LCPC, presenters.
March 12th Understanding the Neurobiology of Complex PTSD
Researchers are learning more and more about the impact of trauma on brain development and affect regulation. This workshop will educate clinicians on the brain science of trauma and introduce the participants to brain-directed interventions that are effective, work quickly, and help clients manage the emotional roller coaster of the treatment process and their day to day lives. Anita Mandley, LCPC, David Kessler, and Noah Yulish, presenters.
April 9th Transformative Insight Imagery
This workshop will introduce you to the versatility of T.I.I. for therapists own self care to assisting clients in their healing. T.I.I. may be used for resolving trauma; grounding techniques, relaxation; pain relief; heightened self awareness; greater differentiation and integration of mind, body, emotions and spirit. Participants will experience several imagery exercises and depart with immediate tools for their own self care and for using T.I.I. with clients. Kelli Underwood, LCSW, presenter.
May 7th Effecting Change in Families and Couples
Nothing could be clearer in society today than the contribution that trauma and violence makes toward the destruction of our families and couples. This workshop will teach specific clinical skills in working with couples and the family; skills that can be used in cases of spouse abuse, child abuse and other forms of abuse in the family and complex trauma. Most importantly, the experience will help the therapist develop a positive and energized attitude about working with families impacted by couples. Participants will learn when to use family and couples modalities in the overall treatment of violence and trauma. You will learn how to help your clients find resilience and rebuild their lives. This will be done through didactic, video presentation and dialog. Mary Jo Barrett, MSW, presenter.
June 11th Demystifying Yoga and It's Role in Practice
Research supports that memories, emotions and experiences are stored in the tissues of our body-our history is written onto the nervous system. Yoga has a powerful effect on the central nervous system. The central nervous system is the gateway to change within the body, and yoga's ability to re-wire the nervous system makes it a valuable partner to talk therapy. Clients seeking support and tools for a wide range of emotional issues (anxiety, depression, insomnia, stress management, and assistance with emotion/ mood stability) have all benefited from the use of Yoga modalities which are integrated in the social work practice. A client's symptoms are reinforced by intercommunication between the central nervous system, the emotional body and the immune system. Yoga interrupts the body's negative communication cycles and allows the client to create a shift in his or her internal state, subsequently a reduction in symptomatic behaviors and experiences. In this presentation, the participants will learn how Yoga affects the body's biochemistry and subtle energy systems. The presenter will explore the use of Yoga Psychotherapy as an essential component to a contextual social work practice. In this workshop we will examine how to organize the integration of Yoga through understanding the Collaborative Stage Model of Treatment. The workshop will be presented in a combination of didactic material and experiential exercises. Dee Crowley, LCSW, presenter.
July 9th Introduction to TF-CBT
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence based model that treats Post Traumatic Stress symptoms in children, ages 4 to 18. TF-CBT provides systemic and structured interventions that help children and their families heal from traumatic events. This workshop will go through the components of TF-CBT, including: Psycho-education, Parenting Skills, Relaxation, Affect Regulation, Cognitive Coping, Trauma Narrative In-vivo Desensitization, Conjoint parent-child sessions, enhancing safety and future development. Case examples, ideas for implementing the components and trauma narrative samples will be included. We will also discuss how to implement TF-CBT with clients who have complex trauma and traumatic grief. Glenda Rogers, MFT, presenter.
August 13th Working with Clients with Dissociative Disorders
Clients with Dissociative Disorders often spend years living with misdiagnoses, consequently floundering within the mental health system. They change from therapist to therapist and from medication to medication, getting treatment for certain symptoms but making little or no progress towards affective, cognitive, and behavioral stabilization. Participants will learn the four main types of Dissociative Disorders , assessment tools, and how to use The Collaborative Stage Model to organize treatment. They will also be introduced to specific treatment interventions. In addition to the didactic information, case examples will be a primary teaching tool. Participants may also bring examples from their own practice for discussion and consultation. Anita Mandley, LCPC, presenter.
September 10th Post-Traumatic Slavery Syndrome
It would be impossible to experience more the 35o years of full spectrum invalidation, trauma, and abuse without monumental consequences. The impact of slavery, segregation, and racism has affected the African American emotionally, psychologically, neurologically, and genetically. This syndrome is often unrecognized, unacknowledged, and under-treated within the mental health community. The symptoms are often either not seen, or seen through the lens of criminal behaviors, or maladaptive idiosyncratic behaviors, as opposed to emotional, psychological, neurological, and genetic adaptations to trauma. The mental health community can be an effective agent of healing and change. The requirements include: education, acknowledgment, an effective treatment model, effective treatment interventions, and effective management of the therapist's own reactivity. Anita Mandley, LCPC, presenter.
October 8th A Clinician's Compass for Working with Traumatized Children
If you feel overwhelmed by the complexities of working with traumatized children and their families, this training will give you tools and clarity. First we will map out how trauma works with children in an understandable, applicable way. Then, concrete directions are offered for navigating the challenging road of healing children who have experienced multiple, traumatic experiences. You will learn how to use a three stage therapeutic model designed to give you a blueprint for structuring the process of change. Through visual, experiential and storytelling techniques, you will gain the knowledge you need to facilitate change. Kelli Underwood, LCSW, presenter.
November 12th Compassion Fatigue & Vicarious Traumatization
Because we are compassionate and have empathic qualities to accompany our therapeutic skills we may find ourselves feeling used up, burned out or entirely depleted. One day we turn around and see that we have not been caring for ourselves in the same compassionate way that we care for our clients.
Clinicians working continuously hour after hour with clients hearing the pain and suffering of: poverty, PTSD, abuse and trauma, depression, loss or other special needs begin to suffer from the very symptoms they are attempting to manage in others. They too, lose sleep, suffer from intrusive memories, dissociate and the list continues. This suffering is not always related to the therapist's own traumatic experience, indeed such experiences may not exist. Instead, the symptoms appear from the reoccurrence of experiencing other's traumatic events on a frequent basis. The workshop will help practitioners recognize any problematic symptoms they are experiencing and help create solution -focused, personal and professional tasks and contexts that help to alleviate the distress. The goals for this workshop are to 1) gain an understanding of the concept of compassion fatigue and its causes, 2) to gain personal awareness of how compassion fatigue has an impact on practice, and 3) to understand how to treat compassion fatigue and to develop a personal wellness plan. Mary Jo Barrett, MSW and Anita Mandley, LCPC, presenters.
Registration Form
Complexities of Trauma
3 Day Intensive Workshop
April 30th, May 1st & 2nd, 2010
About the Conference
Clinicians will earn over 20 CEU's in one weekend while exploring the complexities of trauma through the lens of the Collaborative Stage Model - a highly effective multiple component model. This workshop was created for clinicians working in the public and private sectors who want to learn a cutting edge integrated approach to treating trauma, abuse and Complex PTSD. Featuring presentations from Mary Jo Barrett and Anita Mandley.
Topics will include:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT, DBT)
- Relational Attachment Theory
- Yoga Centered Therapy
- Working with offending behaviors
- Use of Family and Couple modalities
- Treatment of Children, Adolescents and Adults
- How to organize these complexities, AND MORE!
For more information or to register for the conference please contact John Hughes (847) 676-4447 ext 336 or johnh@centerforcontextualchange.org
Back to Top |