content of systemic Trauma therapy training

The content

  • The assets of this training
  • The psychobiological model of the  process
  • Accessing dysfunctional attachments and early trauma
  • Understanding the theory and practical model of systemic trauma therapy
  • Specific advantages of systemic trauma therapy

Some important theoretical concepts

  • The importance of subcortical appeasement in the family system
  • The impact of attachment quality on child brain development
  • Transmission of the attachment mode between parent and child

Practice systemic trauma therapy

  • Step by step construction of a systemic  therapy concept
  • Identifying the need for prior parental work
  • Double attunement between the developmental stage of the initial trauma and young patient’s the current age
  • Adaptation of  protocols for youngsters and adolescents
  • Establishing the memory cue lists with couples or families/children 

Practical aspects of the clinical setting

  • The therapist's place
  • Managing multiple caps: the frame, the process, the parents, the children/youth
  • Observing and adjusting the activation curve
  • Managing dissociation
  • The parent's place
  • The place of the child according to his age
  • The advantage of the parent's presence for the child
  • Therapist-child interaction in the presence of the parent
  • Deciphering the behaviour/movement of the child/youth
  • Adjustments according to specific situations
  • Adoption, divorce, dysfunctional attachment figure
  • Trauma integration for couples

Teaching methods

  • Theory, case study , practicum, video, case analysis
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