The Bouverie Centre is pleased to present:
The 8th Annual Mini Conference
"Non-compliance: Exercising Personal Authority or Courting Disaster"
Tuesday 5th October 2010
Contact the Centre on 9385 5100 for more information
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER DIAGNOSIS CLIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES
To introduce workers to strength based approaches for working with people with a BPD diagnosis and their families.
Learning Outcomes:
Learn and practice a variety of strength based skills for individuals and their families.
Dr Peter McKenzie has worked with individual sufferers of BPD and their families for a number of years. He also runs group work for family carers using both narrative and mindfullness approaches. Dr Ron Findlay has used ideas from solution focussed and narrative approaches with individual sufferers and their families in community psych and private practice.
They will discuss their practice ideas and approaches and touch upon issues such as who to see; when and why group work is helpful; running a family session or a group; approaches to trauma, abusive behaviour and self-harm; setting limits; self-care and coping with the complex and stressful nature of this work; working with differing views.
Who Should Attend:
Clinicians and workers seeking different skills to augment those of classic approaches e.g. CBT/psychodynamic/DBT.
Presenters: Dr Ron Findlay and Dr Peter McKenzie.
1 DAY – Friday 10th December 2010
9.30am - 4.30pm
Closing Date / Payment Due: 19th November 2010
Cost: $170
CHILD'S PLAY
An experiential workshop focused on creative and expressive ways of working therapeutically with children and families.
Learning Outcomes:
- To explore clinical rationale for using play and other creative techniques to engage and work through difficult emotional problems, in ways that connect directly to the world of children, in the context of family work.
- To share practice wisdom and ideas with other clinicians, about ways to involve families fully in the healing of traumatic experiences that integrates fun, flexibility and creative expression through art and play.
- To familiarise oneself with a range of therapeutic modalities such as sandplay, puppet play, stories and art.
Who Should Attend:
Clinicians who are working therapeutically with families who have experienced trauma (this may include arrange of traumatic issues) and wish to enhance their skills in play and creative therapies.
Presenters: Kerry O’Sullivan and Tina Whittle
1 DAY – Tuesday 10th August 2010
Closing Date/Payment Due 20th July 2010
Cost $170
COMPASSION FATIGUE: THE COST OF CARING
Aims
To consider the impact of our work in the helping professions on our own health and well-being, and to review strategies for sustaining ourselves in the longer term, personally, professionally, and organisationally.
Learning Outcomes:
- To understand the phenomenon of compassion fatigue, and to distinguish it from burnout, vicarious trauma and other related concepts
- To develop a number of strategies for preventing compassion fatigue
- To know what is possible in terms of treatment
- To develop a professional self-care plan
Who Should Attend:
Clinicians who are currently working in the helping professions
Presenters: Tina Whittle, Pam Rycroft, Sally Ryan
1 DAY – Tuesday 21st September 2010
Closing Date/Payment Due 1September 2010-01-19 Cost $170
DEPRESSION AND NARRATIVE THERAPY
On SSRI’s, CBT helped, but want to do more? An introduction to Narrative Therapy techniques for working with people suffering from depression.
Learning Outcomes:
To understand, learn and practice the narrative concepts and techniques of:
- externalising conversations against
a) depression, its components, its effects and its tactics
b) the susceptibilities to depression - whether personal biological, social or cultural
c) the early relapse warning signs - ‘narrative relapse prevention’.
- finding the initiatives / unique outcomes clients take against depression.
- touching on how therapeutic letters / documents can be used to build and promote the client’s progress.
Who Should Attend:
Workers helping people tackle depression, e.g. psychiatric services, counselling and therapy professions. Prior knowledge of narrative is recommended. (The training is on using narrative for depression, not on diagnosis, assessment, general management or treatment of depression.)
Free narrative articles can be found at www.narrativeapproaches.com and
www.dulwichcentre.com.au.
Presenter: Dr Ron Findlay.
1 DAY - Friday 26th November 2010
9.30am - 4.30pm
Closing Date / Payment Due: 5th November 2010
Cost: $170
FACILITATOR TRAINING:
To deliver a workshop series for carer families living with Borderline Personality Disorder: Fostering Realistic Hope
The aim of this training is to equip workers and carers as co-facilitators to deliver the above workshop series. Participants will gain experience around group therapeutic, and psychoeducational processes that support caring relationships and practices that counter the effects of BPD on families.
The key components of the training are:
Discovering space (mindful awareness meditation/self-care)
Outsider witnessing (group work)
Acknowledgement (validation work)
Working with self and other (relational limit setting)
Co-research (identifying, resourcing and exploring carer families’ knowledge, theories and coping skills.)
The training will also focus on an experiencing and understanding of these practices, along with an evaluation of their usefulness in developing a space for reflection and realistic action.
Presenters: Peter McKenzie is a Carer Academic and Family Practice Consultant at the Bouverie Centre. He has been working in the area of carers / families and BPD for a number of years, both clinically and as a trainer and advocate.
Who Should Attend:
Workers, clinicians, carers supporting someone with BPD.
4 HALF-DAY WORKSHOPS
We are seeking expressions of interest.
Please contact Peter McKenzie on 03 9385 5100 or p.mckenzie@latrobe.edu.au
FAMILY PSYCHO-EDUCATION IN MENTAL HEALTH- WHAT SHOULD IT INCLUDE AND WHAT ABOUT THE PROCESS?
FREE FAMILY SENSITIVE PRACTICE FORUM
Psycho-education is often seen as an essential component of working effectively with families Providing psycho-education to families who attend mental health services can often be complex.. This session will question and explore what psycho-education is, how it is provided and how it might be useful to families. The exploration will cover what consumers and families say is helpful, what research tells us, and whether psychoeducation is ‘therapeutic’. Issues of the current practice of psycho-education and the link with culture will also be considered. The session will conclude with discussion about the essential elements of effective and respectful psycho-education.
Who should attend:
The Family Sensitive Practice Series are open to all in the mental health field including mental health worker, consumers and family members.
Presenters: Hanna Jewell
2 HOURS- Wednesday 24th March 2010
2 pm – 4 pm
Closing Date 3 March 2010 Cost: Free (Bookings Essential)
FOSTERING REALISTIC HOPE
A series of group workshops for carers/families living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Through a group therapeutic support process, these workshops will invite participants to share and respond to stories of living with BPD; create a space in which to consider, explore and develop their own and professional knowledge in understanding and responding to BPD; investigate ways that can acknowledge, inform and support them in relationships that counter the effects of BPD.
Learning Outcomes:
Becoming story tellers and witness to the effects of BPD inviting the acknowledgment of shared experiences and an exploration of the initiatives that have made a difference.
Exploring and practicing a mindfulness stance as a skilful means to develop a space for reflection and action.
To acknowledge the importance of our own knowledge and skills in coping with BPD and how these can be supported and extended by professional understandings.
Who Should Attend:
Carers and family members supporting someone with BPD.
Presenter: Peter McKenzie (Carer Academic / Family Practice Consultant).
EIGHT 3 HOUR WORKSHOPS
Tuesdays: 13th, 20th, 27th April, 4th,
11th, 18th, 25th May, 8th June 2010:
Time: 6.00pm - 9.00pm
Closing Date / Payment Due: 28th Apr 2009
Cost: Free (Bookings Essential)
GETTING STARTED WITH NARRATIVE THERAPY
How do you start to use narrative approaches? How do you run a narrative session? How do you do narrative questions? Is it similar or different, harder or easier than other models? What are its principles and philosophies? Are they practical? Can you do it only as technique?
Explore these questions; get a grounded intro to narrative.
Learning Outcomes:
- CORE BELIEFS - Narrative theory philosophy -what makes a session a narrative one, ‘the problem is the problem not the person’, narrative politics / ethics regarding the client, narrative politics / ethics for the worker, promoting persons preferred stories.
- Understand, learn and practice the two threads of Narrative Practice:
a) EXTERNALISING - What it is and how to do it
b) RE-AUTHORING - Detect unique outcomes, build them into preferred stories.
Develop questions to enrich this process by exploring identity and action.
Who Should Attend:
Health and community workers interested in exploring the use of this model for their work.
Presenter: Dr Ron Findlay.
1 DAY - Friday 9th July 2010
9.30am - 4.30pm
Closing Date / Payment Due: 18th June 2010
Cost: $170
INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP IN FAMILY THERAPY
To give participants a basic introduction to the core concepts involved in family therapy theory and practice.
Learning Outcomes:
Provide an overview of the history of family therapy theory
Articulate the benefits of working systemically
Integrate theory and practice
Enhance family sensitive practice in their agencies.
Who Should Attend:
This course is suitable for a wide range of people involved in the ‘helping professions’: case managers, social workers, psychologists, nurses, doctors, occupational therapists, youth and childcare workers. No prior knowledge or experience of family work is required. Participants must attend all 4 days of their nominated introductory workshop.
As this course is always heavily booked, it is not possible to transfer between courses.
4 DAYS
9.15am - 4.30pm
Cost: $550 per person.
INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP IN FAMILY THERAPY DATES & INFO
WORKSHOP A – 2 – 5 March 2010
Closing Date / Payment Due: 9th February 2010
Presenters: Various
WORKSHOP B – 21 – 24 June 2010
Closing Date / Payment Due: 1st June 2010
Presenters: Various
WORKSHOP C – 27 – 30 September 2010
Closing Date / Payment Due: 6th Sept 2010
Presenters: Various
WORKSHOP D – 9, 10, 15 & 16 November 2010
Closing Date / Payment Due: 19th October 2010
Presenters: Various
NOTE: ALL WORKSHOPS HAVE THE SAME CONTENT.
Making The Most Of Every Encounter:
Single Session Work With Families Affected By Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
This 2 day workshop will address common experiences in families where a member suffers a brain injury, and effective ways to support families when time and resources may be limited. We will introduce participants to the ‘Single Session Work’ (SSW) approach, and provide opportunities to practice skills. The two days will be held a fortnight apart, to enable participants some time to explore how a Single Session Work approach might fit in their own work context, before returning for further reflection, education and practice on day 2 (All participants are expected to attend both days).
Learning Outcomes:
To understand;
- The impact of ABI on family members
- The history and philosophy of the SSW approach
- How SSW might be helpful in the context of ABI work, and situations when it might be contraindicated.
- Applications and skills associated with SSW, including explaining SSW to clients and colleagues, conducting the session, the follow-up phone call, and using the paperwork.
There will be opportunities to practice skills via role plays and demonstrations.
Who Should Attend:
Case managers, allied health professionals and community-based workers supporting individuals and families affected by acquired brain injury.
Presenters: Nella Charles and Nadine Holgate Acquired Brain Injury Team
2 DAYS – Tuesday 31st Aug and Tuesday 7th Sep 2010
9.30am – 4.30pm
Closing Date / Payment Due: 16 Aug 2010
Cost: Free for workers in DHS funded ABI services, others $340
MAKING THE MOST OF FAMILY MEETINGS
Family meetings are held in most health settings: however they vary enormously in aims, outcomes and degree of collaboration and family participation. This workshop aims to increase participants’ knowledge, skills and confidence in conducting effective family meetings.
Learning Outcomes:
To have an understanding of a range of frameworks and models for conducting family meetings
To be able to identify the key ingredients of effective family meetings
To have an appreciation of family members’ experience of family meetings
To be able to describe different responses for managing issues such as conflict or distress that arise in meetings
To have an awareness of the organizational context of family meetings.
Who Should Attend:
Clinicians working with individuals within general and mental health settings, who are interested in improving their practice in relation to family meetings.
Presenters: Hanna Jewell and Jackie Pearce.
1 DAY – Tuesday 4th May 2010
9.15am - 4.30pm
Closing Date / Payment Due: 6th April 2010
Cost: $170
MAPPING THE TERRITORY OF COMPLEX NEEDS & BPD: CLIENTS, FAMILIES AND SERVICES
Free Family Sensitive Practice Forum
This session will be an invitation to begin to explore and discuss, in terms of a trialogue (the different perspectives), families, suffers and services' experiences, knowledge and skills around living and working with the effects of complex needs & BPD.
Who Should Attend:
The Family Sensitive Practice Series are fee and open to mental health and community based workers, carer families and service users.
Presenters: Peter McKenzie and guest presenter
4 HOURS – Wednesday 17 November 2010
1.00 to 5.00 pm
Closing Date 27 October 2010
Cost: Free – Bookings Essential
NO BULLSHIT THERAPY
Striving toward honesty
No Bullshit Therapy (NBT) is ideal for those people who:
don’t like therapy or the idea of therapy (even if they’ve never had it);
have had traumatic experiences but do not trust ‘do-gooders’ to help them;
have had previous unsatisfactory
treatment, counselling or therapy;
are otherwise difficult to engage in the process of therapy.
Philosophy and principles that guide NBT:
striving towards honesty;
developing authentic relationships;
marrying honesty and directness with warmth and care.
Learning Outcomes:
To be introduced to NBT.
To reflect on and challenge your current therapeutic practices.
To have the opportunity to experience and practice approaches consistent with NBT.
Who Should Attend:
Helping professionals who, at times, struggle to engage clients in effective work.
Workshop A: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Closing Date / Payment Due: 6 April 2010
Workshop B: Monday 11 October 2010
Closing Date / Payment Due: 20 September 2010
9.15am - 4.30pm
Cost: $170
BOTH WORKSHOPS HAVE THE SAME CONTENT.
PARENTING AND MENTAL ILLNESS: PUTTING IT INTO PRACTICE
Parents can struggle with how to tell their children and family about their mental illness and or mental health issues. This workshop will explore the parent’s role in informing children and family about their mental health issues and how practitioners can engage with and support this process.
The workshop will utilise a strength-based, non-assumptive approach incorporating concepts of trauma, stress/vulnerability and promotive assessments of children. It will be co-facilitated by a parent consumer of mental health services. The bulk of the workshop will be experiential in nature.
Learning Outcomes:
- How clinicians can assist the family to identify and mobilise their resources for the well being of the child
- Help families to build a shared understanding of the experience of mental illness
- How parents with a mental illness can have a positive influence on their children dealing with the past and identifying ways to continue in the future.
- Help parents to identify areas of successful adjustment as well as areas of emotional distress and less optimal functioning in their children
Who Should Attend:
Workers from specialist services including mental health and PDRSS. Workers from generalist services working with families and children where there are significant mental health concerns are also invited to attend.
Presenters: Rose Cuff (State-wide Coordinator, FaPMI Families where a Parent has a Mental Illness), Hanna Jewell (Mental Health Program) and a parent consumer of mental health services.
1 DAY – Wednesday 12th May 2010
9.15am - 4.30pm
Closing Date/Payment Due: 21st May 2010
Cost $170
NON-COMPLIANCE: EXERCISING PERSONAL AUTHORITY OR COURTING DISASTER
An exploration of the concept of ’ non-compliance in the mental health field.
The 8th FaST Mini Conference
The concept of non-compliance has a central role in the provision of contemporary mental health care. How helpful is this emphasis on compliance and does it have the potential to do harm? This conference will be an opportunity for consumers, family carers and workers to explore the concept of non-compliance in treatment and service delivery experiences. This trialogue or 3 way discussion aims to create an environment in which rich sharing of experiences from all perspectives can be respectfully spoken, and respectfully heard.
We will explore such questions as:
- What do we mean by non-compliance? What does the literature have to say about the concept of non-compliance?
- How does non-compliance fit with notions of empowerment and recovery?
- What role do families play in ‘supporting’ or even ‘enforcing’ compliance? What is the impact of this role on relationships within the family especially children? What role do children play? What is it like to be ‘compliant’ or ‘non-compliant’ and what are the consequences for all parties?
- How does ‘non-compliance’ define the experience of workers, consumers and families?
- How do mental health practitioners position themselves in relation to non-compliance in their work with their clients and family members ?
This conference is open to people who have experienced a mental illness, family members and mental health workers.
1 Day – Tuesday 5th October 2010
Closing Date/Payment Due 14 September 2010
Cost $50 for workers
Free for consumers & families (Bookings essential)
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
Learning Outcomes:
Theoretical understanding and practice skills required to design and execute a small qualitative research project.
Knowledge of various qualitative research methods.
Issues around critically reading the literature and developing research questions.
Ethical issues and submitting research proposals to ethics committees, journal keeping, library skills and conventions for written presentation.
Who Should Attend:
The course is suitable for counsellors and psychotherapists interested in understanding and conducting qualitative research.
Presenter: Dr. Jennifer Power
Can be offered as a Single Unit enrolment which includes assessment for an extra cost. Enquiries: Susan Conduit on 03 9385 5112 or via email at bouverie.academic@latrobe.edu.au.
3 HOURS PER WEEK FOR 13 WEEKS
Weekly during Semester 1
1st March to 4th June 2010
Cost: $1,100
Enquiries: bouverie.academic@latrobe.edu.au.
RELATIONSHIP / COUPLE COUNSELLING AND NARRATIVE THERAPY
Narrative therapy has techniques specifically for the difficult challenges of working with couples. The poststructuralist theory underlying narrative and relationships is interesting and challenging in itself and draws conclusions often at variance with other models. We discuss and explain it throughout the day. Discussion and debate is most welcome.
Learning Outcomes:
To learn and practice four narrative relationship counselling techniques:
Externalising conversations with the problems of couples.
David Epston’s ‘internalised other questions’ for couples.
Michael White’s ‘repositioning’ and outsider witnessing for couples.
The presenter’s ‘questions of experience’ and the 3D exercise for couples.
Who Should Attend:
If you are working with couples and are interested in checking out or using and practising narrative techniques this day is designed for you. Prior knowledge of narrative is not required but recommended. Once enrolled, upon request, a list of references for the day can be emailed to you. The articles will be handed out on the day.
Free narrative articles can be found at www.narrativeapproaches.com and
www.dulwichcentre.com.au
Presenter: Dr Ron Findlay.
1 DAY – Friday 23rd July 2010
9.30am - 4.30pm
Closing Date / Payment Due: 2nd July 2010
Cost: $170
RELATIVE INVISIBILITY: IDENTIFYING FACTORS IMPACTING ON FAMILY ENGAGEMENT WITHIN A CONTINUING CARE TEAM
Free Family Sensitive Practice Forum
About the session
In this forum Brendan O’Hanlon from The Bouverie Centre and Mary McCrae, Carer Consultant North West Area Mental Health Services will present their findings from a research project titled ‘Relative Invisibility’. The name of the study reflects the potential for family members to unseen and unacknowledged when their relative is receiving treatment from a mental health service. Mary and Brendan will present their findings from this mixed method study that explored contact between families and treating professionals. Using contact data and indepth interviews with clinicians and families. the extent and nature of contact is described as well the experience of contact from ‘both sides’ of the encounter. The implications of the findings for further research and practice will be considered. Brendan and Mary will also reflect on the trials and tribulations of research from the perspective of novice researchers.
Who should attend
The session should be of particular interest to those interested in the relationships between mental health professionals, consumers and family members and how these ‘play out’ in a real world context. The Family Sensitive Practice Forums are open to everyone in the mental health field including consumers, family members and mental health professionals.
Presenters: Brendan O’Hanlon and Mary MaCrae
2 HOURS-Tuesday 15th June 2010
2.00-4.00pm
Closing date 25th May 2010
Cost: Free(Bookings Essential)
SCHIZOPHRENIA REHABILITATION NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES
The client is on medication. Housing and carer support is being addressed. How do you use some narrative therapy techniques to provide more help?
Learning Outcomes:
Learn and practice:
- Externalising and challenging:
a) the ‘positive’ symptoms of schizophrenia, e.g. voices and paranoid thoughts
b) the ‘negative’ effects of schizophrenia, such as ‘amotivation’ ‘social withdrawnness‘
c) the development of a ‘flawed’, ‘inferior’ or ‘failure’ identity
- finding ‘unique outcomes / initiatives’ (strengths / positive developments) that the sufferers agree are forward steps. Minimising ‘selling’ them a ‘positive’ that they reject.
- ‘co-research’ - collecting and distributing clients’ solution (while taming but not discarding our own ‘expert’ advice)
- therapeutic documents and letters to honour client’s steps.
Who Should Attend:
Staff in rehab / support agencies. working on continuing care and rehab for people with schizophrenia.
Free narrative articles can be found at www.narrativeapproaches.com and www.dulwichcentre.com.au
Presenter: Dr Ron Findlay.
1 DAY - Friday 3rd December 2010
9.30am - 4.30pm
Closing Date / Payment Due: 12th November 2010
Cost: $170
SEXUAL ABUSE AND TRAUMA - KEEPING THE FAMILY IN MIND
Whether working with an individual or with a family affected by trauma, it is possible to apply a “systemic lens” to enhance the healing process. This workshop will explore ways of engaging and supporting those affected by the aftermath of a disclosure of sexual abuse.
Learning outcomes:
- Integration of current trauma theory and approaches with systemic thinking
- Exploration of the complex impact of sexual abuse on family systems (i.e. intergenerational patterns, balancing loyalties in sibling abuse)
- Practical ways of engaging and working with those affected by sexual abuse
- Working professionally and effectively with service systems to promote better outcomes and healing for families.
Who should Attend:
Professionals working with individuals and families affected by the trauma of sexual abuse.
Presenters: Deb Mountjoy and Colleen Cousins.
2 DAYS – Wednesday 30th June & Wednesday 7th July 2010
9:15 am - 4:30 pm
Closing Date / Payment Due: 39th June 2010
Cost: $170
SINGLE SESSION WORK (SSW): Making the most of every encounter
To introduce the aims, practice principles, techniques and strategies of SSW. Learn the ‘nuts and bolts’ of SSW practice and explore implementation strategies for various service settings.
Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the history and philosophy of a SSW approach
- Describe what SSW is and what it is not
- Discuss indications and contra-indications for SSW
- Identify and practise particular skills associated with SSW
- Practice via role play intake, session and follow-up phone call, including the micro skills of SSW paperwork
- Describe various applications of the SSW ideas
- Outline a process for implementing SSW in a service setting
- Develop an implementation plan.
Who Should Attend:
Professionals, including counsellors, therapists, case managers, team leaders or managers interested in understanding and / or applying a SSW approach either in their individual clinical practice or as a treatment modality within their agency.
Special Offer: SSW Implementation Kit for $110 including GST if booked into a SSW course (instead of $163.90 if purchased separately). One per applicant.
Workshop A – Monday 22nd & Tuesday 30th March 2010
Closing Date / Payment Due:1 March 2010
Presenters: Sally Ryan and Naomi Rottem
Workshop B – Monday 17th & Tuesday 18th May 2010
Closing Date / Payment Due: 26th April 2010
Presenters: Sally Ryan and Karen Smith.
Workshop C – Thursday 15th & Thursday 22nd July 2010
Closing Date / Payment Due: 24th June 2010
Presenters: Karen Smith & Naomi Rottem
Workshop D – Monday 25th & Tuesday 26th October 2010
Closing Date / Payment Due: 4th October 2010
Presenters: Sally Ryan and Karen Smith.
NOTE: ALL WORKSHOPS HAVE THE SAME CONTENT.
2 DAYS
9.15am - 4.30pm
Cost: $340
TRAUMA AND NARRATIVE THERAPY
The Narrative Approach has specific concepts and techniques for working with people who suffer trauma (often different to other models). The theory and core narrative techniques will be explained and debated to assist your work with these particular clients.
Learning Outcome:
To familiarise and / or practise:
- psychological pain and suffering as testimony and legacy, suffering as a sign of strength of beliefs, not as flaws of recovery or character
- doubly listening and re-authoring of the person’s struggle against the trauma
- the ‘restoration’ of a sense of continual ’self, identity and memory’ as opposed to the trauma’s ‘fragmenting’ effects
- a touch on remembering and outsider witnessing as techniques to help the above.
Who Should Attend:
Therapists and counsellors working to assist this client group. Prior knowledge of narrative is highly recommended. If your paid enrolment is received no later than 2 weeks before the workshop, 3 core pre-reading articles can be sent to you if you so request.
Free narrative articles can be found at: www.narrativeapproaches.com and
www.dulwichcentre.com.au
Presenter: Dr Ron Findlay.
1 DAY - Friday 16th July 2010
9.30am - 4.30pm
Closing Date / Payment Due: 25th June 2010
Cost: $170
WORKING SYSTEMICALLY WITH TRAUMA AND SEXUAL ABUSE
Learning Outcomes:
- An overview of current trauma treatment
- The rationale for developing a systemic approach to trauma treatment
- Presentation of an integrated, multi-theoretical trauma treatment framework
- Use of participants' and teacher's clinical material to integrate theory and practice
- Exploration of compassion fatigue and self care strategies
Who Should Attend:
The course is suitable for family workers who confront trauma or sexual abuse in their caseloads, or for sexual assault workers and trauma therapists interested in developing a systemic approach.
Presenter: Anne Welfare
This course can be offered as a Single Unit emrolment which includes assessment for an extra cost. For further information and application form please contact Jane Schleiger on 03 9385 5100 or email bouverie.academic@latrobe.edu.au
3 Hours for 13 Weeks
Weekly during Semester 1, 1st March - 4th June
9 am to 12 pm
Cost $1,100
WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH
ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY AND THEIR FAMILIES:
A 2 day workshop
This workshop will provide an opportunity for people working with children and young people with an acquired brain injury to develop their skills and knowledge.
Learning Outcomes:
- To understand the impact and unique challenges of paediatric brain injury on children, young people and their families.
- To understand family experiences following brain injury including trauma, grief and loss, developmental and life cycle impacts and family adjustment tasks.
- To introduce the principles of family sensitive practice and implications for working with children and families.
- To discuss practical strategies for promoting positive school, family and life transitions.
- To discuss the impact on workers and issues of self care.
This workshop will be suitable for anyone working with a child or young person who has an acquired brain injury.
Presenters:
This workshop will be presented by ABI workers from three organisations:
Victorian Paediatric Rehabilitation Team, Royal Children’s Hospital
Acquired Brain Injury Team, The Bouverie Centre
Statewide ABI Paediatric Co-ordinators, Melbourne Citymission
2 DAYS Tuesday 4th May & Wednesday 5th May
9:15am Registration, Workshop 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
Closing date – Tuesday 20th April
Cost: Non-compensable: No Cost
Compensable: $320.00
Compensable/Non-compensable caseload: $160.00
WORKING WITH COUPLES: THEORY AND PRACTICE
Illustrating the concepts with case examples and video extracts, Penny Evans explores an approach to relationship counselling which integrates psychodynamic, systemic and behavioural theories.
Penny also shares some ideas about working with the couple relationship when only one partner is present.
The approach taken will combine formal presentation with DVD demonstrations and case examples. There will be plenty of opportunity for participants to ask questions and make comments from their own experiences, as well as workshop concepts in small group settings. Comprehensive teaching notes will be distributed on the day.
Penny Evans is a couple therapist with 20 years experience with a background in family therapy. As Professional Education Manager at Relationships Australia, Vic., she oversees the “Specialist Course in Couple Therapy”, the post-course Internship, and other couple counselling training programs. She is also co-coordinator of the Masters in Couple and Relationship Counselling which RAV conducts in equal partnership with The Bouverie Centre (Latrobe University). In addition, Penny conducts a private practice specializing in couple therapy.
1 DAY – Monday 19th April 2010
9.30am - 4.30pm
Closing Date / Payment Due: 28 March 2010
Cost: $170
