Continuing Education Workshops
2006-2007 Schedule

An Attachment-Focused Family Therapy

Daniel Hughes, PhD.

September 12 & 13, 2008

Location:

8:00 AM - Registration begins
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM - Workshop

(Lunch is on your own)

Price:

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1. Register Online:
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2. Download registration form to fax or mail

Workshop Description:

This workshop will present a family treatment model whose principles rely heavily on the theories of attachment and intersubjectivity. After first presenting an overview of their crucial role in human development, the workshop will then demonstrate how attachment and intersubjectivity can be utilized in effective family treatment. The family treatment of problems ranging from conflict and miscommunication to abuse and neglect will be presented, including using this model for children/youth in alternative care settings. Formal presentation, discussions, handouts, role-play (if possible), and DVDs of treatment sessions will be employed.

Workshop Goals and Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to describe how attachment and intersubjectivity are central to healthy human development.
2. Participants will be able to describe the attitude of PACE and its role in family therapy.
3. Participants will be able to describe the role and nature of parent preparation before the onset of family treatment.
4. Participants will be able to describe how the therapist utilizes his or her own intersubjective presence in facilitating the flow of the treatment process.

This workshop has been approved for 12 CEUs and 4 Law and Ethics CEUs by the NASW-WA State Chapter for Licensed Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors.

About the Workshop Presenter:

For most of his professional life, Dan Hughes has been a clinician specializing in the treatment of children and youth with severe emotional and behavioral problems. Many of his clients had histories of abuse, neglect, and multiple losses and were extremely unwilling and unable to form a relationship with a therapist or with a caregiver. Working primarily with foster and adopted children, Dan borrowed heavily from attachment and intersubjectivity theories and research to develop a model of treatment that he calls Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. DDP is a very directive, client-centered approach, influenced by psychodynamic, gestalt, Rogerian, and Ericksonian traditions, brought together within the dance of affect attunement that is seen most powerfully in the relationship between a parent and her/his infant and toddler. DDP gradually became applied to less severe problems between parent and child as well as to marital and family relationships. Dan is the author of two books and many articles regarding the use of DDP with children and youth with severe attachment problems due to trauma and loss. The 2nd Edition of Building the Bonds of Attachment was published in 2006. A third book, Attachment-focused Family Therapy, published in May, 2007 by W.W. Norton, presents the basic principles and interventions of DDP as a general model of family therapy.

Dan’s primary interest is the training of therapists in the DDP model. He gives weekly training programs in Maine during the summer and in London during the year. He has recently moved to Annville, PA, outside of Philadelphia, and in 2008 began to provide training, supervision, and consultation programs there in conjunction with a small clinical practice. He is also a visiting tutor at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London, which is a graduate program for psychotherapists. He has provided therapist training, conducted seminars and spoken at Conferences around the US for the past ten years. He also provides ongoing supervision and consultation to various clinicians and agencies, while speaking regularly to groups of parents.

Participants frequently indicate that Dan’s training has had a great impact on their professional and personal lives. As they become proficient in utilizing these attachment-based interventions in therapy, they invariably report discovering new ways of becoming engaged with and deepening their relationships with their own children as well as with their partners and the other attachment figures in their lives. Dan presents in a very engaging manner that is congruent with how he conducts therapy and attempts to live his life. His presentations provide an integrated cognitive and affective understanding of his model of psychotherapy and parenting.

LASW/LICSW Licensure Prep Course
Jonathan Beard, MSSW, LICSW, CPRP

This Licensure Examination Preparation Course will assist you in preparing to take either the clinical or advanced ASWB exams required for social work licensure in the State of Washington and most other states. The course includes a 200+ page manual plus a sample test.

The course includes an overview of test taking strategies, anxiety management techniques and helps licensure candidates to be confident in their ability to think clearly about what is being asked in order to choose the correct answers and earn a passing score. The course also includes a review of the major content areas of the examination including human development and behavior; assessment, diagnosis and intervention planning; direct practice methods; theories and models of treatment; diversity issues; professional values and ethics; and more.

Jonathan R. Beard, MSSW, LICSW, CPRP, is the owner of Progressive Strategies in Seattle, WA, where he provides a variety of project management, consulting, training, and program and/or organizational development services to public and nonprofit human service providers and organizations. He also provides private practice based clinical social work supervision to beginning and experienced social workers who are unable to obtain it where they work. Jonathan has many years of experience as a direct services provider, supervisor/manager and senior executive, primarily in mental health settings. He has taught this course to hundreds of social workers in Washington and throughout the Northwest to rave reviews.

The Mind and Body of Safer Trauma Therapy
Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW

January 30-31, 2009

Workshop Description:

PTSD is an indicator that the body and mind have not, yet, recognized that a traumatic incident is over. As a result, the body's nervous system responds by continuously mobilizing the muscles and other systems for defense (fight/flight) and/or numbing (freeze). Those with PTSD become overly attentive to interoceptive reminders of past danger, while losing their connection to extroceptive cues (the "five" senses) that appraise the present environment. This course will equip participants with neurophysical and psychophysical theory, principles, and tools for understanding, reducing, containing, and halting traumatic hyperarousal. It is consistent with and a beneficial adjunct to any method of psychotherapy or specialized trauma therapy (e.g. analytical, dynamic and somatic approaches, cognitive-behavioral, and EMDR).

Workshop Goals and Objectives:

Attendees will be able to:

1. Define trauma, traumatic stress, post traumatic stress, and posttraumatic stress disorder
2. 2) Distinguish clients who are good candidates for processing trauma memories from those who are not
3. 3) Discuss the structure of the body's nervous system
4. 4) Employ the sensory nervous system to mediate flashbacks and nightmares
5. 5) Exploit the autonomic nervous system to moderate arousal levels
6. 6) Discern relaxed (a muscular state) from calm (a nervous system state)

About the Workshop Presenter:

Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW, has been a practitioner since 1976 and a teacher and trainer since 1992. She is the author of three books, all published by WW Norton: The Body Remembers -The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (a bestseller); The Body Remembers CASEBOOK - Unifying Methods and Models in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD; and Help for the Helper - The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma. After living and working for 9 years in Copenhagen, Denmark she returned to her native Los Angeles, CA. There she is writing her next books while she continues to lecture, train, and supervise professional psychotherapists worldwide.