A Solution Focused Approach to Working with Abuse & TraumaIn a typical 2-day workshop, you will:
- Have an increased awareness and understanding of abuse & trauma survival work
- Be provided with a range of effective tools & techniques for use with this client group
- Experience increased confidence to do this work
- Be able to list the many types of abuse, neglect and trauma that present
- Explore the characteristics of ‘Victimhood’, ‘Survivorhood’ and ‘the Authentic Life’ (living the life you richly deserve)
- Be able to highlight the most helpful and useful questions to ask
- Hear of the pitfalls when working with survivors of abuse & trauma
- Appreciate the power of the solution focused approach to bring about a steady and sustained recovery
- Discover what service users have said they found helpful
- Have a greater appreciation of the various blocks to disclosure
Programme Outline
Welcome
Contracting around making it safe for people to work
Listing the topic areas
How we take a solution focused approach
What has been found to work
What service users have found helpful
The importance of naming the abuse, neglect or trauma
Yvonne Dolan’s 3 stages: Victim; Survivor; and, the Authentic Self
Dealing with anger
Applying basic solution focused techniques to survivors
Service users’ difficulties in disclosing or divulging past abuse
How much of the detail is it necessary to hear
Blocks to disclosing
What equips us to do this work
Perpetrator behaviour
Implications of abuse and survivor work: how to look after ourselves
Letter writing exercises
Techniques for dealing with flashbacks in everyday life
How we can improve further our practice from today
Recommended reading list
Scaling confidence in working in this area
Workshop round up and summary
“I had always assumed, cases of abuse & trauma needed to be passed onto ‘experts’. From this course, I realise now I have the skills to do this work” – Alexandra Elliot-Brown, Swindon
“A very useful course for a very needy client group. Thanks” – Pat Dempsey, Catterick
“With what we have learned on these 2 days, I can see that surviviors of abuse & trauma have real opportunities for living life to the full again” – Brian Sinclair, Bulford ‹ Back to Training Courses |