week 2 – full day courses – mornings and afternoons
Please click the course title for the course description and learning objectives
Adler created a theory designed to help us to understand ourselves and others, our psychological needs and a formula for mental health. He outlined the basic requirements as needing to belong, to move from a felt minus to a perceived plus, to experience a sense of significance, and to be encouraged. In an effort to simplify teaching these needs we refer to them as “The Crucial Cs” (Bettner & Lew, 1990): the need to Connect, to feel Capable, to feel as if we Count, and the need for Courage. The goal of this course is to identify our perception of our needs and to see if we have those needs met and to grow from that information.
Learning objectives:
Participants will be
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Familiar with Adler’s 4 psychological goals.
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Understand the use of the Crucial Cs for simplification.
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Explore a personal need for connection with others.
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Explore a personal need for learning and growing.
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Examine personal ways to feel needed, contribute.
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Identify personal experiences of being encouraging others.
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Understand personal needs and examples of encouraging.
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Find the connection between the Crucial Cs and social life.
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Find the connection between the Crucial Cs and work.
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Find the connection between the Crucial Cs and intimacy.
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Discover the Crucial Cs in current life situations.
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Identify how to use course information for personal growth.
This highly practical course draws on some of the latest trauma research and therapy approaches that integrate well with an Adlerian approach. It will focus particularly on developing the therapeutic skills of ensuring safety and stability, observing physiological arousal levels, enabling dual attention for managing flashbacks and trauma memories, and building on the person’s resilience and social connection.
Learning objectives:
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Describe Adlerian principles in relation to trauma work.
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Analyze the difference between Single Shock and Developmental / Complex Trauma.
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Describe recent developments in Neurophysiology and Trauma including Polyvagal Theory (Porges 2011, 2017)
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Explain the phenomenon of dissociation and discuss the use of Internal Family Systems (Schwartz).
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Apply window of affect tolerance and Integration and ANS precision regulation (Rothschild 2017) to client assessment.
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Identify 3 phases of trauma therapy (Janet, 1998; Herman, 1992)
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Assess differing types of client – identifying those with whom it is appropriate to process trauma memories and those with whom it is not
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Identify principles of safe trauma work and apply grounding processes, anchors, resources, safe place
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Accurately observe differing levels of physiological arousal
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Use the SIBAM model (Levine) for embedding resources
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Apply use of dual awareness to manage triggers, flashbacks and nightmares
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Recognize and describe the management of ‘Second hand shock’ : vicarious trauma, secondary trauma, burnout and compassion fatigue.