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Trauma Informed Care for Practitioners: Applying Principles to Practice and Responding to Challenges

This advanced workshop explores how the principles of trauma informed care could be applied to your particular field of practice. It considers strategies to appropriately respond to challenges around engagement, re-traumatisation, dissociation and loyalty to trauma.

Description

Aim

As practitioners, we seek to recognise and validate the impact of trauma in order to create a safe, therapeutic space to promote the capacity for healing. This advanced workshop explores how the principles of Trauma Informed Care could be applied to your particular field of practice.  It considers strategies to appropriately respond to challenges around engagement, re-traumatisation, dissociation and loyalty to trauma. The common elements and stages of healing are outlined, along with suggestions on how to work with complexity in a practice context of limited time and resources. Essentially, it examines how to strike an appropriate balance between the past and the present, therapeutic relationship and therapeutic interventions.

Overview and Learning Intentions

  • Consider how principles of Trauma Informed Care can be applied to your role and field of practice

  • Explore common challenges practitioners face when supporting people who have/are experiencing trauma

  • Understand the purpose and function of depersonalisation & feelings of unreality and how to work effectively with the broad impacts of trauma

  • Learn the key components and pathways to safe trauma recovery

  • Critically reflect on your current practice and your organisation’s approach to Trauma Informed Care

  • Know how to reduce the risk of re-traumatisation

  • Consider how to address complexity with limited resources and promote healing whilst maintaining safety and the therapeutic relationship

Let's Get Real

1. Working with people experiencing mental health and addiction needs

3. Working with whānau

4. Working within communities

5. Challenging discrimination

7. Maintaining professional and personal development

Facilitated by Melvyn Johns 

MASW, B.A. (Hons), Cert. Supervision, Cert. AOD Counselling, RSW

Mel has over 20 years’ experience working in the mental health and addictions sector in Aotearoa New Zealand and the UK. Throughout his career, he has held a number of diverse roles, working alongside a broad client base within both statutory and NGO services. He possesses clinical practice, leadership, teaching, management, supervision and governance experience. Mel has a comprehensive knowledge of assessment processes, therapeutic interventions and risk-management approaches. He demonstrates a relentless commitment to the principles of social justice, along with a strong passion for developing services that are truly recovery focused. Mel has been a workshop facilitator with MHERC for several years, whilst maintaining his clinical, supervisory and project management roles.

 

Workshop Type: Advanced | Workshop Level: Seven | Catering: Refreshments provided

Terms and Conditions

  • Cancellations made up to 10 working days before a workshop will incur a $39 service fee.

  • Cancellations (or non-attendance) made 10 working days or less will not be refunded and the full workshop fee will be charged. 

  • No fee applies if you are able to find a replacement participant.

  • MHERC reserves the right to cancel a workshop at any time due to unforeseen circumstances or insufficient registrations.

  • Only one person may view a webinar session per registration.

Please read our full Terms and Conditions before registering.

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