@SydneyHomeless @shannylee AUSTRALIA! Promoting recovery with traumatized children and young people Australian Policy Online
- Seminar
- Thursday 29 April 2010 9:30 am - Thursday 20 May 2010 4:00 pm
- Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth , Australia
International speaker tour
Richard Rose, is a social worker, author and the Director of the Mary Walsh Institute in England, a specialist training organization for professionals working with traumatized children and young people in out of home care.
Richard teaches and lectures internationally, including a range of graduate training programs in therapeutic care. He provides professional consultancy throughout the UK and is External Clinical Practice Supervisor for the Mental Health Service of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Government.
Richard has published a number of papers on improving outcomes for traumatised children and is author of ‘The Child’s Own Story: Life Story Work with Traumatised Children’, part of the SACCS ‘Delivering Recovery’ series published by Jessica Kingsley. Life Story Work covers the concepts of Attachment, Loss, Magical Thinking, History, Identity and Meaning, all of which are highly significant when children find themselves in long term care/adoption or multiple placement within the out of home care system. This focused approach encourages children to develop a sense of self through the exploration of their relationship with others.
The two seminars are filled with practical applications of trauma based intervention suitable for case workers, case managers, residential care workers, therapists, teachers, early childhood professionals and others who are involved in supporting children and young people to recover from trauma
Participants can attend one or both seminars. Enrolment in both seminars attracts an additional discount on the fee. Please note that only the first seminar is being offered in Adelaide and Hobart.
Seminar 1. Life Story Work with Traumatised Children
The seminar provides an introduction to the Life Story process, based on the book by Richard Rose and Terry Philpot ‘The Child’s Own Story: Life Story Work with Traumatised Children’. Participants learn how this work helps children make sense of the past, so that what has happened to them does not dominate, control or inhibit the present. The day will introduce:
- Listening and interpretive skills
- The importance of identity and meaning
- The significance of ‘magical thinking’
- The SACCS Life Story process: gathering and collating information
- Techniques for producing the Life Story book
On completion, candidates will have an in-depth understanding of the techniques required to successfully undertake Life Story process. This is achieved through a three-stage system which includes information banks, direct work with children, and producing the Life Story book itself.
Stage 1: Examination of insights into listening, interview and interpretive skills, and guidance on addressing sensitive issues with the child and the extended family.
Stage 2: The process of working directly with the child is explored. This includes internalisation of the child’s experiences and those of the extended family, and the involvement of professionals and carers who provide services and interventions. Participants will have an opportunity to consider assessment methods within the Life Story process, including communicating, interviewing and recording.
The seminar will further explore the importance of feelings and ‘magical thinking’, understanding the child’s perspectives, and working with children who are ‘stuck’ in their own past or the past of others. Evidence of practice and case studies will support the experience.
Stage 3: Participants will work through the techniques for creating a Life Story book, and review an authentic book created with a traumatised child.
Seminar 2 Building a Successful Approach to Therapeutic Residential Care for Traumatised Children and Young People
Therapeutic care is at the forefront of international efforts to reform out of home care. Drawing on theory and research about attachment, trauma and resilience, this workshop centres on how to provide therapeutic care for children and young people, specifically in residential and congregate care contexts. Firmly based in the day to day reality of living and working with traumatised children, the workshop will provide practical strategies for planning, integrating and monitoring strategies that meet the needs of individual children at home, school and other important environments.
The seminar will focus specifically on the following topics:
- Understand what traumatised children need from residential care environments
- Explore what is meant by therapeutic reparenting
- Understand how to use a trauma based assessment framework for planning care routines and experiences for children and young people
- Identify effective strategies to stabilise and transform children’s trauma
- Conceptualise how to build and use effective relational approaches to resource children’s recovery away from their immediate care context
At the conclusion of this seminar, participants will be better able to proactively plan and implement practical individually tailored therapeutic care plans for children and young people who have experienced abuse and neglect related trauma.
Seminar Dates
Seminar 1 Adelaide 17/5/10 Adelaide Convention Centre, North Terrace, Adelaide
Seminar 1 Brisbane 29/4/10 Novotel Brisbane, 300 Creek Street, Brisbane
Seminar 2 Brisbane 30/4/10 Novotel Brisbane, 300 Creek Street, Brisbane
Seminar 1 Hobart 6/5/10 Hobart Function and Conference Centre,
Elizabeth Street Pier, Hobart
Seminar 1 Melbourne 10/5/10 Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, 25 Collins St, Melbourne
Seminar 2 Melbourne 11/5/10 Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, 25 Collins St, Melbourne
Seminar 1 Perth 19/5/10 Burswood Convention and Events,
Great Eastern Highway, Burswood
Seminar 2 Perth 20/5/10 Burswood Convention and Events,
Great Eastern Highway, Burswood
Seminar 1 Sydney 3/5/10 Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre,
Darling Drive, Darling Harbour
Seminar 1 Sydney 4/5/10 Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre,
Darling Drive, Darling Harbour
Seminar Costs
Cost for 1 day seminar
Registration received on or prior to 15/2/10 $260 (GST Inclusive)
Registration received on or prior to 15/3/10 $280 (GST Inclusive)
Registration received after 15/3/10 $300 (GST Inclusive)
Cost for 2 x 1 day seminars
Registration received on or prior to 15/2/10 $480 (GST Inclusive)
Registration received on or prior to 15/3/10 $520 (GST Inclusive)
Registration received after 15/3/10 $540 (GST Inclusive)
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Venue:See attached flier for detailsFile Attachment:Presented By:Australian Childhood FoundationEvent website:
http://www.apo.org.au/event/promoting-recovery-traumatized-children-and-young...
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