Training Courses

A Solution Focused Approach to Working with Abuse & Trauma

In 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

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