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When:

 June 22 2018

Location:

 Calgary Alberta

Type:

 workshop

Practice Area:

 Clinical

Contact Email:

 lucypascal@shaw.ca

Contact Name:

 Lucy Pascal

Contact Organization:

 Talk Therapy Seminars

Contact Phone:

 403-467-7252

Contact Website:

 http://www.talk-therapy.ca/treating-trauma/

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To work with troubled and traumatized adolescents and emerging adults, it’s crucial for therapists and other caregivers to first foster an adult capacity for self-awareness and self-regulation. It’s not easy, especially when the youths’ extreme reactions — ranging from angry, agitated arousal to frozen shutting down — can trigger our own sense of frustration and helplessness. Through the transition to adulthood, the long-term impact of early adverse poses a particular treatment challenge: how do we provide opportunities for successful dependence in the face of so many expectations for independent functioning? Learning Goals and Objectives In this workshop, Dr. Straus will describe Developmental-Relational Therapy (DRT), an attachment-based model of trauma treatment. Through lecture, discussion, exercises, and video clips, you will learn and practice mindful, empathic strategies that can help even the most defiant and distressed teens and young adults feel more secure, connected, present, and regulated. Participants will learn to: Explore specific adolescent and emerging adult attachment styles that interact with and trigger your own. Utilize the React, Reflect, and Respond approach to provide corrective relational experiences. Practice the four M’s — mirroring, mentalizing, mindfulness, and modulation — to increase connection and mood regulation. Make use of adult presence, validation, self-disclosure, and enactments to bring young traumatized clients back into relationships with themselves and with you.