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Workshop presenters Christine Mead
This workshop will cover what HIV/AIDS is; how it works; and what the mental health implications are for anyone affected by HIV and AIDS. It will focus on work delivered by Terrence Higgins Trust Counselling Service, using case material and health promotion material to look at counsellors own reactions to working in the area of sex and relationships, and to working with diverse client groups including gay men and people from African communities. The workshop will be useful for counsellors in primary care; any counsellor who works with clients dealing with chronic medical conditions; counsellors who work or would like to work with diverse client groups; counsellors working with clients affected by HIV and AIDS. No prior knowledge of HIV is necessary. By the end of this workshop, you will:
Christine Mead is head of counselling services, Terrence Higgins Trust. She trained as a psychosynthesis counsellor and psychotherapist. She works primarily within a short-term context, and is particularly interested in developing services that are flexible according to clients’ cultural needs. THT Counselling Service won the BACP Award for the Advancement of Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2004.
The belief that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance and/or a gene has no scientific support, while the DSM categorisation of different kinds of depression has no validity. Depression is a distinct experience very different from unhappiness, and occurs not out of the blue but following events that have a particular meaning for the person. In the workshop, if we are to discuss how to apply this understanding of depression to counselling, it would be necessary for all the participants to have read, at the very least, the chapter headed ‘the Depression Story’ in the third edition of Dorothy Rowe’s book Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison. Dorothy Rowe is a psychologist and writer whose work is concerned with how we create meaning and how that meaning determines what we do.
This workshop will look at some current issues relating to domestic violence. It will explore links between self-esteem, attachment, anger, entitlement and offending behaviour. It will consider typologies of domestic violence from both a perpetrator and victim perspective and it will consider the impact that domestic violence can have on children. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on how current research could be integrated with practice. Dr Elizabeth Gilchrist is a chartered forensic psychologist and reader in forensic psychology at the University of Kent, and a part-time member of the parole board. She has undertaken a range of work in the area of domestic violence over the past 15 years, both delivering interventions and researching perpetrators and victims/survivors of domestic violence. Dr Gilchrist was the principal investigator on a recent Home Office funded project to explore criminological need in perpetrators of domestic violence; she has written and presented nationally and internationally on this topic.
This workshop introduces the delegates to the main issues relating to ethnicity and culture within the counselling setting. The emphasis will be on two areas: training within psychotherapy and counselling, and the counselling session itself. Within both these arenas, the undercurrent of how ethnicity and culture affects the therapeutic process will be closely examined. The workshop will be participative and will enable delegates to explore their attitudes and experiences within the therapeutic setting and elsewhere, as well as heightening their awareness of how their own culture and ethnicity affects the therapeutic alliance. Methods of working cross-culturally will be explored, bringing attention to how issues of race and culture can be more fully understood and can in turn be used therapeutically. The concept and practice of working with difference will be explored in order to understand and appreciate how client work within this context can bring about therapeutic change. Finally the implications of client work within a diverse community will be discussed, especially with reference to psychotherapy and counselling training. James Barrott is the head of counselling at Thames Valley University. He has an interest in working with difference, and how culture and ethnicity, as large examples of difference, play out in the counselling arena. He believes our willingness to explore our own and our clients’ culture and ethnicity can result in rich, creative counselling sessions and hence therapeutic change. James has worked as a counsellor in the areas of mental health, domestic violence, children and families, creative arts and in several educational settings, and also works as a musician. Neelam Zahid is a counsellor at the University of Luton. Her area of interest is in how therapeutic training courses do not address the notion of difference enough in the counselling room, possibly at a therapeutic and human cost.
In this workshop I will briefly summarise some of the recent findings from neuroscience that I find useful, and describe their impact on my day-to-day practice. This is a practical workshop, and I will share and demonstrate some of the ways I work with people suffering from the effects of trauma and damaging experience including phobias, post-traumatic stress, acute anxiety, panic attacks and obsessions. By using a variety of methods based on these principles, I am often delighted with the speed at which people are free from their often-crippling symptoms. Jenny Biancardi has been a therapist for 30 years. Her commitment has been to the person-centred approach. However, in recent years, due to research findings, she has become particularly interested in the effects of trauma and has trained in EMDR and in some NLP techniques, as well as developing an interest in working directly with the body. She is a psychodramatist and trainer, supervisor and consultant to a variety of organisations, and has a private practice in Newcastle. Her latest passion is Re-Act playback theatre, in Newcastle.
Since the transpersonal realm is all about spirituality, and therefore beyond the everyday person, and since subpersonalities are usually regarded as more restricted than the full person, the two are not usually connected. But in this workshop we shall explore the possibility that in therapy it may sometimes be useful to pretend that the soul is a subpersonality, or that the spirit is a subpersonality, and to talk to them. We can then use the work of Ken Wilber to help us understand what is going on. John Rowan has been working in the field of the transpersonal for many years, and has been called one of the founding fathers of transpersonal psychology in this country. He is a fellow of BACP and BPS. |
# Mick Cooper
Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy by Dave Mearns and Mick Cooper will be launched at this year’s conference, and this workshop will give participants an opportunity to explore some of its central themes. It will introduce participants to the notion of relational depth – a state of profound contact and engagement between two human beings – and look at its relevance to counselling and psychotherapy. Participants will have an opportunity to explore their own experiences of relational depth within the therapeutic context and to consider how such encounters might contribute to a de-fragmentation of society and individuals. Mick Cooper is a senior lecturer in counselling at the University of Strathclyde and a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, whose practice is informed by person-centred, existential, interpersonal and postmodern ideas. Mick is also author of Existential Therapies and has written several papers and chapters on person-centred, existential and self-pluralistic approaches to therapy.
There are many counselling situations where the therapist feels that the healing process has become blocked. Often the discourse in the sessions seems to be going round in a circle. This scenario may also arise if clients find it difficult or impossible to verbalise their emotions. A breakthrough is needed – an ‘inspired moment’. The ‘inspired moment’ occurs when the therapist changes the nature of the therapy by introducing an intervention based upon creative arts therapies that reach the unconscious. This workshop will introduce, through demonstrations and experiential exercises a number of therapeutic tools that qualified counsellors may use. These will probably include working with sandtrays, drawing and painting (or possibly photography), projection through puppets, communicating through music and creative visualisation. Monika Jephcott is a BACP-accredited supervisor with 20 years’ experience as a counsellor and psychotherapist, gained with a wide variety of clients and presenting conditions. Her specialist skills include working with couples, families and children. In 2001 she developed an integrated counselling service delivery model used to achieve substantial improvements in counsellor/therapist performance, quality of treatment, volume of referrals, equity of provision and implementation of national guidelines. Monika is currently responsible for the training of more than 200 therapists in the use of non-talking therapy skills at postgraduate level.
Many counsellors work with clients who have experienced traumatic life events. While this work can be rewarding there are times when the demands can lead to the counsellor experiencing compassion fatigue or secondary trauma. This workshop has been designed for counsellors who have experienced the pain of caring and who would like to explore ways to deal with the pain and create the means for bringing about positive personal growth. The workshop will involve:
Noreen Tehrani is a chartered occupational, counselling and health psychologist. She formed her own company in 1997 to help organisations deal with a wide range of psychological problems including long-term sickness absence, stress, bullying and trauma. She has a special interest in psychological trauma and has published a number of papers, articles and books on trauma care programmes, trauma counselling and debriefing. Noreen has worked with victims of the Manchester bomb, road crashes, the Paddington and Potters Bar rail crashes and victims of the attacks on the World Trade Centre buildings and the Pentagon. She has also supported victims of a wide range of other traumatic incidents including murders, rapes, fatal accidents, natural disasters, bullying and road crashes. She has a keen interest in debriefing training and is the trainer for the Northern Ireland Fire Brigade, Metropolitan Police, City Police and Eurotunnel. Noreen chaired a British Psychological Society working party on trauma debriefing. Noreen’s latest book Workplace Trauma – concepts, assessment and intervention was published in September 2004.
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This workshop will be interactive, using audio and visual formats, and delegates will be encouraged to share ideas and experiences. A full handout pack will be provided with further resources and information. Sally Ingram is a qualified and experienced counsellor and trainer, counselling adults and young people in a variety of settings. She is therapeutic services manager for a family counselling charity based in the West Midlands, runs a small private counselling and supervision practice and works with BACP in its Counselling Children and Young People division.
For many therapists who come into contact with the legal system through their work, being involved in a court case is a frightening and disturbing experience. Therapists in Court is a response to such concerns. This handbook should be the first point of reference when they are faced with a situation or dilemma arising from their potential involvement in the courts. The workshop is an introduction to this handbook and to the way in which therapists should seek to make use of it. It brings the law alive by warning of potential areas of difficulty, highlighting the requirements for good practice and providing examples of documents and reports written by experienced practitioners. An introduction to the following areas, which are covered in the book, will be provided:
Aman Sandhu is a legal resource manager at BACP. Dr Tim Bond is a reader in counselling and professional ethics at the University of Bristol.
Where deprivation and trauma are too much for the small child to manage, an internal compartmentalising takes place to enable survival. Dissociative identity disorder, the new term for multiple personality disorder, is a controversial diagnosis within the UK and little or no training in understanding this subject is provided on most psychiatric, therapeutic or counselling courses. This workshop aims to provide academic and clinical definitions of the state and clinical material to illustrate key points. Dr Valerie Sinason is a poet, writer, child and adult psychotherapist and adult psychoanalyst. She is director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies and consultant research psychotherapist at St George’s Hospital Medical School. She was a consultant child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic where she convened the mental handicap workshop. She specialises in learning disability and trauma. She has published widely, her latest book being Attachment, trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder. |
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