Dr Karen Treisman: Supporting Children and Teens around Bereavement, Death and Grief
Sat 25 Sep 2021 10:00 AM - Sun 26 Sep 2021 4:00 PM BST
Online
Description
This two day training is one of a wide number of events Karen is running for us across both 2021 and 2022. Discounts for group bookings are available (discounts increase depending on numbers) and also for individuals booking multiple events ( 3 events = 10% off / 5 events =25% off). Payment in instalments is also possible. To discuss possible discounts, alternative ways to pay or to arrange an invoice for your place of work to pay for you please email info@thesunflowernetwork.co.uk to arrange.
Please note: this is a two day online training running from 10am - 4pm each day.
Content Details:
Supporting children and teens (with applications for adults as well) around bereavement, death and grief
Please note that this is primarily talking about grief for children who have experienced a death of a loved one. Whilst many of the tools and ideas can be creatively and sensitively applied to loss, such as through moving to foster care or divorce - this is not the main focus.
Please also note this course is talking about the complex and painful topic of death. We know that many people will be touched and moved by this experience. Although there will be breaks, reflective spaces, and support available on the day please do reflect on whether you feel able to attend - your safety is of paramount importance.
We will cover the following:
- Ways to support, understand, and respond to children and teenagers who have experienced a bereavement including tips, strategies and ways of being.
- Things to hold in mind, such as the adult’s own wellbeing and regulation and their own relationship and experience of death and loss.
- Common experiences, behaviours, emotional responses around grief.
- Tips around what to say or what not to say around grief, and related area such as funerals/cremations etc.
- Awareness raising about what might add layers of complexity to the experience of a bereavement e.g. suicide, abuse, sudden accidents etc.
- Numerous direct work, creative, and expressive ideas, tools and exercises to support children to: 1) express their feelings about the death of that person/pet, 2) to remember and honour the person who has died, and 3) some regulation tools for when the feelings feel too much.
- Some discussion about reflecting on the journey.
- Some practical advice and information.
- Discussion about endings and goodbyes
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).
RECORDINGS:
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BOOKING TERMS & CONDITIONS:
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