Systemic Approaches to Trauma and Neglect/Trauma clinical practice

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Objectives

1. Engage effectively to conduct work with families who have experienced trauma and/or neglect.
2. Conduct an assessment of the family's situation and therapeutic needs using at least one of a range of specified theoretical frameworks
3. Integrate aspects of your own experience of the therapeutic relationship into your assessment and decisions for intervention with the family.
4. Work collaboratively with the family and parts thereof to design and carry out an appropriate plan for intervention
5. Synthesise theoretical frameworks with your ongoing reflections on your experience to appropriately manage the therapeutic relationship.
6. Demonstrate effective skills in introduing and utilitsing at least one of: EMDR, Radical Exposure tapping, Schema Therapy, Schema Mode Therapy, Internal Family Systems, or other approach as appropriate.
7. Develop in your capacity to respond flexibly and skilfully to the individual needs of a range of family presentations.

Assignments

1. Meet criteria to satisfy established level on a range of clinical competencies (500 words equiv)
2. Case analysis (3000 words)
3. Individual or group assignment developing a learning resource for professional information about some aspect of trauma therapy with families. (equiv 4000 words)

Topics, Activities and Resources

• Supervised role-play and discussion within small supervision groups to develop knowledge and skills in:

• engagement of families
• collaborative assessment and goal setting,
• integration of theoretical frameworks,
• one of the active models of intervention,
• reflection on your own experience of the therapeutic relationship,
• conceptualisation and management of your own and the family's responses within the therapeutic relationship
• conceptualisation of your own needs for development as a trauma therapist

• Live supervised practice with clients from your own workplace or The Bouverie Centre within small supervision groups to further refine and develop knowledge and skill in the above areas.
• Inquiry-based learning activity to design an on-line training exercise or resource within a public forum, e.g. YouTube, Wikiversity, Wikipedia…