This training is aimed at schools, youth organisations, homeless services and family support services and for those working in the frontline with families and children in Cork City.
The Lord Mayor said: “Through my past experiences as both a School Completion Project Worker and as a Youth Officer in Cork Education & Training Board I know that adverse childhood experiences and trauma informed practice is very relevant to the work of many of you on a daily basis and for me puts a language around and scaffolds the work that many have been trying to do for years. This is a great opportunity to immerse yourself in two days of evidence based information and practical tools that you can translate into your daily work practice.”
Day 1 of the training seminar will focus on relational and developmental trauma, abuse, and neglect - the impact of childhood trauma, abuse, and neglect including ACE’s/ thinking about the impact of relational and developmental trauma, stress, adversity, and loss on children’s bodies, brains, behaviours, emotions, sensory worlds, and relationships.
Day 2 will be on A Therapeutic Treasure box: creative and expressive tools, techniques, and direct-working activities to support children and adolescents who have experienced relational and developmental trauma.
For further information and to register please contact sandra_omeara@corkcity.ie or phone 086 1712482.
Dr Karen Treisman is a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist who has worked in the National Health System and children’s services for several years. Karen has also worked cross-culturally in both Africa and Asia with groups ranging from former child soldiers to survivors of the Rwandan Genocide.
Karen has extensive experience in the areas of trauma, parenting, adversity (ACE’s) and attachment, and works clinically using a range of therapeutic approaches with families, systems, and children in or on the edge of care, unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people, and adopted children. Karen also specialises in supporting organisations and systems to move towards being, and to sustain trauma-informed and trauma-responsive practice. This work focuses on creating a cultural and paradigm shift across whole systems.
In addition to holding a doctorate in clinical psychology, Karen has undergone a range of specialist training courses including in EMDR, Narrative Therapy, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Video Interaction Guidance, Sensory Approaches, and Theraplay.
Karen was also awarded the 2018 Psychology Professional of the Year Award for Excellence in Attachment and Trauma.
