*WEBINAR* COMPLEX TRAUMA: RECOGNISING AND RESPONDING EFFECTIVELY TO OUR CLIENTS - A day of theory and training for working beyond single incident trauma.

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Faculty

Pam Stavropoulos, PhD - UniMelb, Grad. Dip. Psychotherapy (JNI) , Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment, Fulbright Alumni, Clinical Member PACFA . Related seminars and products

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Pam Stavropoulos, PhD, is an educator, consultant, and psychotherapist whose most recent work is as Head of Research with the Blue Knot Foundation. A former Fulbright Scholar and two-time winner (2022 & 2014) of the Pierre Janet Writing Award for the best clinical, theoretical, or research paper in the field of dissociation and/or trauma, she has been a member of the ISSTD Scientific Committee and coauthored the nationally and internationally endorsed Practice Guidelines for Clinical Treatment of Complex Trauma (Blue Knot Foundation, 2012, 2019). Pam has held lectureships at the University of New England and Macquarie University (from which she left her tenured position to study and practice psychotherapy) and is a former Program Director of the Jansen Newman Institute, Sydney. The author of Living under Liberalism: The Politics of Depression in Western Democracies (2008) she has written research reports in the community health sector and is a clinical supervisor who specializes in complex trauma-related issues.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Pam Stavropoulos maintains a private practice. She receives royalties as a published author. Pam Stavropoulos receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Pam Stavropoulos is a member of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia.

Objectives

Learning objectives of this training:

1. Recognise the possibility of complex trauma in diverse client presentations.
2. Recognise differences between complex/single incident trauma and the treatment implications.
3. Identify the necessary components of effective therapy for complex trauma, and the extent to which the combination of these components may require modification and adaptation of your existing ways of working.
4. Chart the links between core principles of effective therapy for complex trauma and their clinical application.
5. Recognise the centrality of the realm of the non-verbal and ways in which unarticulated experience is ‘evoked’, ‘enacted’ and ‘embodied’ (Wallin, 2007).
6. Understand the rationale for the three phases of recommended treatment for complex trauma and assemble a foundational context in which Phase 1 (safety and stabilisation) can take place.
7. Attune with increased sensitivity to non-verbal cues within the evolving stages of the therapeutic relationship.
8. Embed within your particular approach ongoing attunement to pre-verbal experience and the body with a view to assisting clients to stay within their ‘window of tolerance’.

"This seminar addresses one of the most current and relevant challenges faced by therapists today. I present this training based upon the latest research along with my experience as a therapist and clinical supervisor."   Pam Stavropoulos

How will you benefit from attending this training?

• Increase attunement to the role of non-verbal experience and the body in effective therapy for complex trauma.
• Recognise the relationship between research findings pertaining to complex trauma and their application to practice.
• Understand ways in which standard psychotherapeutic approaches (insight-based and cognitive behavioural) may require adaptation and supplement in light of the evolving research base on complex trauma and a basic capacity to tailor familiar ways of working in light of this understanding.

Outline

Morning Session (includes a short morning tea break)

• `Complex’ and ‘single incident trauma (PTSD) - the stakes of the distinction and the implications for treatment.
• A diverse research base - the neurobiology of attachment.
• Trauma theory. 
• The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study.

Afternoon Session (includes a short afternoon tea break)

• Clinical implications of the research base- importance of non-verbal and the body (`bottom up’ and `top down’).
• The challenge to `standard’ psychotherapeutic approaches.
• Mental health and adaptation to trauma.
• The importance of dissociation.
• Key features of effective therapy for complex trauma.
• Working clinically: Initial stages of therapy.
• Towards self-regulation (the centrality of safety).
• Phased treatment.
• Transference and counter-transference.
• The high stakes of therapist well-being.
• Vicarious trauma, self-care and supervision. Evaluation and closing.

Target Audience

Webcast Schedule

Morning Session
  9:00am - 12:45pm
  Includes a 15 minutes break at 10:45am

Lunch Break
  12:45pm - 1:45pm

Afternoon Session
  1:45pm - 5:00pm
  Includes a 15 minutes break at 3:15pm