Training Courses

A Solution Focused Approach to Working with Severe Trauma & Stress

In a typical 2-day workshop, you will:

  • Have an increased awareness and understanding of severe trauma & stress
  • 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 severe trauma & stress that present
  • Explore the characteristics of ‘Victimhood’, ‘Survivorhood’ and ‘the Authentic Life’ (living life to the full or as full as possible)
  • Be able to highlight the most helpful and useful questions to ask
  • Hear of the pitfalls when working with survivors
  • 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 severe trauma or stress

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 trauma

How much of the detail is it necessary to hear

Blocks to disclosing

What equips us to do this work

Implications of the work:  how to look after ourselves

Letter writing exercises

Techniques for dealing with triggers in everyday life

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

 

“This course has affirmed me in the knowledge that I have the skills already to do this work.” - Gaynor Evans, Aldershot

 “For years, I have referred on people from this client group to ‘experts’, who were either too busy or ill-equipped to work with them.  Many returned to me.  With the skills learned on this 2-day workshop, added to my existing skills & knowledge, I feel more than able to take on such clients.” – Emma McCullough, Stirling

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