Dr Treisman: Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Children & Young People

Please note this is a two day online training that requires attendance on both days 9.30am to 4.30pm.

Full Title:

Understanding the Impact of Relational and Developmental Trauma and Disrupted Attachment on Children’s Brains, Bodies, Emotions, Relationships, and Behaviours.

Content Summary:

This two-day training package offers an abundance of learnings around the multi-layered impact of trauma, neglect, toxic stress, and disrupted attachment on children, adolescents, and on their surrounding adults.

• It includes the impact of trauma and disrupted attachment on the body (physical and sensory), brain (cognitive and neuropsychological), emotions, behaviours, learning, and relationships.
• This workshop will also have a spotlight on the important of language, words, and how we story people in our written and verbal communications.
• Although the content of this workshop can be emotive and potentially triggering; there will also be an emphasis on hope, resilience, and survivorship.
• These days use a range of metaphors, props, video clips, experiential learning, and case studies to bring the contents alive.
• This workshop also draws on the latest evidence-base and neuroscience findings but delivers them in an accessible engaging and applicable way.
• This training draws on the attachment, loss, stress, and trauma theory base, however with a focus of translating the findings into day-to-day child protection and children in care case work and practical tips.

Please Note: whilst there will be example interventions touched upon as part of case studies and the taught elements of this workshops, this is a different type of training to Karen's Creative Tools days.

Self-care reminder:

Please note this workshop does discuss potentially emotive and triggering material around domestic violence, neglect, sexual abuse, physical abuse, and emotional abuse- so please be mindful of your own wellbeing.

Outline of The Day:

• Explore what is meant by the terms relational and developmental trauma?
• Provide a rational and framework for relationship-based trauma-informed practice.
• Consider and reflect on some of the trauma and loss experiences which many of these children have faced and still face.
• Learn about why children’s social and emotional age may be different to their chronological age.
• Consider some of the multi-layered impact that these experiences have on children’s brains, bodies, relationships, behaviours, and emotions. Including on areas such as emotional-regulation, sensory processing, and impulse control.
• Reflect on key elements such as “behaviour as communication” and identifying children and our own multi-layered triggers.
• Reflect and explore some of the power around language and words.
• Reflect on some of the wider impact of trauma on the surrounding systems such as the family, school, and organisations.
• Consider some of the literature and examples around resilience, hope, and strengths-based practice.

Learning Methods:

The days will utilise an array of learning and teaching styles including small group discussions, experiential hands-on learning, multimedia methods, and lecture delivery. Case studies and live examples will be interwoven throughout.

Props and interactive learning materials will also be used to model the model of being whole-brain informed.

Handouts, additional learning resources, and recommended reading will be provided.

Aims and Objectives of the Day:

• Develop further knowledge and understanding about the impact of early trauma and disrupted attachment on children’s overall development.
• Gain further insight into the latest brain science and neurobiology around childhood trauma and neglect.
• Link trauma and attachment theories to real life case examples.
• Consider how emotional regulation develops in childhood, and how it can be influenced by trauma and disrupted attachment.
• Reflect on how trauma can impact a child’s developmental trajectory and “age”.
• Consider typical behavioural presentations within this client group and how these can be formulated from an attachment and trauma perspective.
• Learn about how to identify children’s multi-sensory triggers and emotional hotspots.
• Consider the impact of the words and language we use in verbal and written communication.
• Gain further understanding as to why therapeutic re-parenting and relationship-based trauma-informed practice is so fundamental to children’s progress.

About Karen:

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. She also is the author of 10 books, including the bestselling book, “The therapeutic treasure box”, 4 sets of therapeutic card decks, and 6 therapeutic soft cuddly toys.

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 becoming, and to sustain adversity, culturally and, trauma-informed, infused, and responsive practice. This work focuses on creating meaningful and multi-layered cultural and paradigm shift across whole systems. This was the focus of Dr Treisman’s Winston Churchill Fellowship Karen was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship Travel Award which involved visited several places in the USA to further study whole system and organisational approaches to trauma-informed and trauma-responsive care and this topic is the focus of Dr Treisman’s newly released book entitled “A Treasure Box for Creating Trauma-Informed Organizations: A Ready-to-Use Resource For Trauma, Adversity, and Culturally Informed, Infused and Responsive Systems”.

In addition to holding a doctorate in Clinical psychology, Karen has undergone a range of specialist training courses including in EMDR, Narrative Therapy, Trauma-focused CBT, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Systemic Psychotherapy, Video Interaction Guidance, Sensory Approaches, and Theraplay.

Karen has previously worked in both Milton Keynes’s and Kensington and Chelsea’s Looked after Children and fostering services, and within the National Implementation Service for evidence-based interventions for Looked after children, children on the edge of care, and children in custody at the Michael Rutter Centre in the Maudsley Hospital; and as Clinical Lead for a court assessment and intensive intervention team for children on the edge of care and in proceedings in Islington.

Karen is an external consultant, trainer, speaker, and assessor to a variety of local authorities and organisations including Barnardos, PAC-UK, AdoptionPlus, BAAT, Pause, Action Trauma, Grandparents Plus, Three Steps Ireland, MedicaCPD, and the Fostering Network. Karen is also an expert witness and regularly undergoes a variety of assessments for court. Additionally, Karen is also a reviewer for the Journal of Adoption and Fostering.

Karen was also awarded the 2018 Psychology Professional of the Year Award for Excellence in Attachment and Trauma; and Youth Psychology Professional of the Year 2020. Karen was also awarded an MBE (Queens Honour list 2020).

Karen regularly attends and presents at local, national, and international trauma, parenting, and attachment conferences (See the events tab on this website). Karen is also a TEDx speaker on the power of relationships and viewing behaviour as communication.

Karen is the author of “Working with children and adolescents who have experienced relational and developmental trauma” (Routledge, 2016); and the best-selling book- “A Therapeutic Treasure Box for Working with Children and Adolescents with Developmental Trauma: Creative techniques and activities”. Karen is also the designer of “A Therapeutic Treasure Deck: Sentence-completion and Feelings Cards”; and “A Therapeutic Treasure Deck: Grounding, Regulating, Coping, and Soothing Cards”; and the Parenting Patchwork Treasure Deck. Karen is also the designer of Neon the Ninja toy and workbook- ; Gilly the Giraffe (Self-esteem & confidence), Cleo the Croc (Children who have been hurt and learned to be afraid to let people close, Presley the Pug (Emotional regulation, relaxation, calm, mindfulness, and finding an emotional safe place), and Binnie the Baboon (Anxiety, fear, stress, and worry).

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