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
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Consider how principles of Trauma Informed Care can be applied to your role and field of practice
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Explore common challenges practitioners face when supporting people who have/are experiencing trauma
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Understand the purpose and function of depersonalisation & feelings of unreality and how to work effectively with the broad impacts of trauma
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Learn the key components and pathways to safe trauma recovery
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Critically reflect on your current practice and your organisation’s approach to Trauma Informed Care
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Know how to reduce the risk of re-traumatisation
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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 25 years’ experience working in multiple mental health and addiction settings in Aotearoa New Zealand and the United Kingdom. He has held a number of diverse roles - in residential, community, custodial, detox and crisis services - within statutory, voluntary, culturally specific and the commercial sector.
In addition to clinical practice, he has experience in governance, leadership, tertiary education, project management and supervision. His passion is to develop and deliver client-centred and recovery-focused services, built on a foundation of social justice values.
He has facilitated a range of workshops for MHERC over several years. Mel currently works in private practice and contracts to a number of local, national and multinational organisations, working with a broad and diverse client base.
Workshop Type: Advanced | Workshop Level: Seven | Catering: Refreshments provided
Terms and Conditions
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Cancellations made up to 10 working days before a workshop will incur a $39 service fee.
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Cancellations (or non-attendance) made 10 working days or less will not be refunded and the full workshop fee will be charged.
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No fee applies if you are able to find a replacement participant.
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MHERC reserves the right to cancel a workshop at any time due to unforeseen circumstances or insufficient registrations.
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Only one person may view a webinar session per registration.
Please read our full Terms and Conditions before registering.