Description
Attachment-focused Phase-oriented Psychotherapy brings together two powerful treatment directions in order to exponentially expand the knowledge and skills available to child and adolescent trauma therapists. This training provides theoretical knowledge, clinical approaches, and specific techniques which are indispensable in treating these challenging high-risk young clients.
Who Should Attend: This workshop will be of interest to clinical therapists who provide individual and family therapy to children and youth with complex trauma disorders.
Outcomes
- Describe the inter-relationship between disrupted attachment and chronic trauma and the impact on neurological, emotional, and behavioural responses.
- Perform assessment of dissociative symptoms and identify the specific treatment needs of dissociative children and adolescents.
- Use phase-oriented approach to treatment with complexly traumatized clients.
Price
Currently available as on-site training at a location of your choice.
GROUP DISCOUNT: Save 20% off individual fee with group registration of 4 or more participants. Contact Angela, angela@safeguards-training.net or (905) 889-5030 ext. 121.
Course Dates & Location
Currently available as on-site training at a location of your choice.
Instructor
Niki Gomez-Perales
Niki Gomez-Perales is a clinical therapist, lecturer and author with more than 25 years of experience in child welfare and children’s mental health. A therapist for the past 20 years in a Children’s Mental Health clinic in Hamilton Ontario, Niki is an active member and Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Her book Attachment-Focused Trauma Treatment for Children and Adolescents: Phase-Oriented Strategies for Addressing Complex Trauma Disorders (Routledge, June 23 2015) is the winner of the ISST-D 2016 written media award.
