Emotional Regulation, Communication Skills in Complex Trauma

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Non-member price: $180.00 including GST

Employer Partner Program price: $135.00 including GST

“In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you.” Deepak Chopra



Social Workers and human service professionals across all settings are consistently called upon to respond to individuals and families in periods of heightened emotional stress. We see in our clients, and sometimes in our colleagues or ourselves, the struggle to emotionally and cognitively regulate in the face of mental and physical illness, violence, disempowerment, or miscommunication. Life can be very tough for some and “keeping stillness” in the chaos sometimes requires extra support.

This training will take you on a journey to discover the development of regulation, look at what can divert us from that pathway, and propose practical skills for every therapist and case manager to work with and improve emotional regulation in our clients.

Who should attend? This training is an introduction primarily for those working in therapeutic relationships with clients. However, if you work in non-therapeutic social work or case management roles, this training will still be of benefit in better understanding and responding to your service users when they display dysregulated behaviours in the face of intense stressors.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Identify the developmental stages of emotional regulation
• Make an assessment from a bio-psycho-social-cultural perspective of emotional regulation as a functional life skill
• Work with the bodily responses to threat that are present during periods of dysregulation
• Reference a toolkit of strategies for working with individuals, dyads and families to enhance emotional coping

AASW Credentials: Mental Health; Clinical; Family Violence

Can't attend live? Your registration includes a copy of the presentation slides and 2 weeks' free access to the event recording.

Presenter

Shannon Baker is a social worker and psychotherapist with 23 years’ experience across university, government and non-government settings working therapeutically with individuals and families experiencing complex trauma. Shannon has recently entered full-time private practice after 18 years working for Queensland Health, most recently in social work leadership roles at the Townsville University Hospital. Her interest areas focus on the utility of narrative and family therapy practices with complex intergenerational trauma and to this end she has worked cross culturally in the remote Northern Territory, with the Palm Island community, and currently with service providers in Cape York and Mt Isa. Shannon is the author of Evolve Therapeutic Services’ Murky Waters training program and Harmful Sexual Behaviours practice framework, written to respond to young people with harmful sexual behaviours following the Royal Commission into the Institutional Sexual Abuse of Children. Her PhD is focused on the family systems impacts of sibling sexual abuse.