67th Annual Conference

Friday, February 26

Afternoon Workshops

2:30 - 5:00 P.M.

Workshop 66

Healing the Wounded Healer: Trauma, Resilience and Transformation!

Chairs:

Marcia S. Nickow, Psy.D., CADC, CGP, Clinical Coordinator, Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center, Lamont, Illinois

Deborah C. Schwartz, M.D., Private Practice, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This experiential workshop encourages participants to explore the struggles, traumas, and turbulence of clinical training, supervision, and practice within the context of clinical, institutional, and family-of-origin dynamics. The group process will integrate narrative and creative approaches to help participants access and share shame, fear,  passion, and community.

experiential, sharing of work experiences, demonstration, didactic

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify traumatic experiences during training, supervision and clinical practice that may be reenactments of family-of-origin issues.

2. Describe the dynamics and impact of these experiences.

3. Express the feelings embedded in these experience within the safety of a collegial community.

Course References:

Catherall, D. R. (1995). Coping with secondary traumatic stress: The importance of the therapist’s professional peer group. In B. H. Stamm (Ed.), Secondary traumatic stress: Self-care issues for clinicians, researchers, & educators (80-92), Lutherville, MD: Sidran Press.

Matsakis, Aphrodite  (1994).  Post Traumatic Stress Disorder:  A Complete Treatment Guide.  Oakland, Ca;  New Harbinger Publications, Inc.

Herman,J. (1992). Trauma and recovery. New York: Basic Books.