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Personality Disorders: A Psychodynamic and Attachment Theory Perspective
This workshop overviews personality development, identifying the key developmental tasks (e.g. emotional regulation, identity, boundaries, etc). This provides clinicians with a map for healthy personality development, as well as shedding light on how personality issues develop. The workshop will look at how personality development shapes perception, emotional responses and how we cope with interpersonal relationships and our internal world (thoughts and feelings). The workshop will...
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Personality Disorders: A Psychodynamic and Attachment Theory Perspective
<p>This workshop overviews personality development, identifying the key developmental tasks (e.g. emotional regulation, identity, boundaries, etc). This provides clinicians with a map for healthy
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Understanding and Working with Simple and Complex Trauma
There is a high prevalence of trauma in the general population and even more so in clinical populations. This workshop will provide clinicians with theoretical understanding and practical techniques that will assist them in their work with clients struggling with trauma related concerns. The workshop overviews a neuropsychological framework for our processing of both everyday experience and traumatic experience. It looks at how this processing can break down following exposure to...
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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Part A
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is an effective treatment for borderline personality disorder, suicide, para-suicide and self-harm. The treatment results in decreased suicidal and other self harm behaviour, improvement in global functioning, better retention in therapy, as well as a reduction in hospital admissions and length of hospital stay. DBT has been effectively adapted for use with adolescents, alcohol and other drug disorders and some eating disorders. Introduction to...
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Personality Disorders
Being diagnosed with a personality disorder (PD) can be a two-pronged diagnosis. On the one hand, a person may feel some relief to finally gain an understanding of their malaise. On the other hand, a diagnosis of a PD can be acutely stigmatising and demoralising. A PD diagnosis can signal that the mental health system has largely given up, that a person’s behaviour is too complex and erratic, and that medications are of little benefit. Diagnostic frameworks for PD’s tend to reflect...
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Working with Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma
Childhood trauma is often the underlying issue for people who present with a range of physical and mental health conditions including substance abuse, eating disorders, self-harming behaviour and dissociation. The complex adaptations which enable survival in childhood become the problems that interfere with quality of life in adulthood. Clinicians who may be unaware of these adaptations may really struggle to understand these behaviours. The survivor of childhood trauma...
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