PLANTING CREATIVE IDEAS FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY
2 Day ESSENTIALS: An Introduction to Child & Youth Therapy
Join the POP! Psychology team for this foundational training 2 day workshop.
DAY 1: KEY FRAMEWORKS
- Principles of child and adolescent therapy
- Key frameworks of understanding - Attachment, Family Systems, Strengths Approach, Child Development, Trauma Informed
- Assessment, formulation, and applying the evidence base
DAY 2: INTERVENTIONS FOR COMMON PRESENTATIONS
- Anxiety
- Grief and Loss
- Attachment disruption
- Childhood trauma
- Behaviour problems
- Emotion dysregulation
- Substance use and addictive behaviours
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Parenting interventions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Skills for Perinatal Mental Health
ACT is one of our core frames for intervention in perinatal mental health, due to its focus on improving Psychological Flexibility, and this frame can be applied to a variety of presenting concerns.
This one day workshop is idea for those who have either:
a) Experience with ACT but are new to Perinatal work
b) Seeing perinatal clients but new to ACT
Our model of ACT for Perinatal brings together and honours these two pathways of prior learning, so that you won't be left behind in either scenario.
You will come away with a consolidated sense of how to apply ACT to a range of common presenting issues, including:
- Pregnancy loss
- Birth trauma
- Antenatal and postnatal anxiety and depression
- Couples difficulties
- Complicated health concerns, including premature birth
- Social support deficits
- Past trauma and vulnerabilities
- Infant care
- Attachment and bonding concerns
Brisbane, Wednesday 16th October 2024
9:00am-5:00pm
POP! Psychology,
612A Wynnum Road,
Morningside QLD 4170
Full Circle Program
Our signature program for introducing mental health clinicians to the field of perinatal and infant psychology.
Full Circle is run each school term in the online format, 1.5 hours across 8 weeks.
It is designed as a small group workshop with a maximum of 10 attendees.
We are able to deliver this workshop as a 2-day training package, but there are no upcoming dates at present.
what we cover in full circle
1: INTAKE & ATTUNED ENGAGEMENT
3: CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOLS & MEASURES
1: INTAKE & ATTUNED ENGAGEMENT
Meet your new parents and their babies with a compassionate first greeting, getting the right information to launch the therapy process.
SESSION CONTENT:
- Set the scene using key principles of perinatal work
- Present Three Little Birds Clinical Framework
- Conducting an intake assessment
- Importance of psychosocial contexts
- Engagement and setting up the therapeutic process
- Intake assessment templates
- Strategies for perinatal intake assessment
- Tools for risk and safety management
2. PSYCHOLOGICAL FORMULATION
3: CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOLS & MEASURES
1: INTAKE & ATTUNED ENGAGEMENT
Put all the case information together using our formulation framework, exploring pathways to effective treatment.
SESSION CONTENT:
- Introduce and define formulation (case conceptualization)
- Present formulation models, and explore application to perinatal psychology
- Safe and effective formulation-driven therapy
- Understand matrescence as an important developmental stage
- Formulate using dyadic models for both parent and infant
- Apply models to a case study
3: CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOLS & MEASURES
3: CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOLS & MEASURES
3: CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOLS & MEASURES
Deep dive into the range of clinical assessment tools available, and come away with new ideas for assessment and evaluation.
SESSION CONTENT:
- Understand basic aspects of clinical assessment:
a) problem definition
b) evaluation - Basic psychometrics and applying these to available perinatal measures
- Feedback-informed treatment
- Clear and collaborative goal-setting
- Formulation-driven session planning
- Library of assessment measures and tools
4: EVIDENCE BASED TREATMENT
5: PRE-CONCEPTION PRESENTATIONS
3: CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOLS & MEASURES
SESSION CONTENT:
- Full literature review of known guidelines, manuals and research papers
- Dyadic, transtheoretical and multi-modality approach to treatment for perinatal presentations
- Practical and process-based suggestions that apply for a variety of clinical presentations
5: PRE-CONCEPTION PRESENTATIONS
5: PRE-CONCEPTION PRESENTATIONS
5: PRE-CONCEPTION PRESENTATIONS
SESSION CONTENT:
- Understand pre-conception as an important stage from a lifespan perspective
- Four key perspectives and theories for pre-conception presentations
- Unresolved Family of Origin concerns
- Paternal mental health
- Fertility and infertility
- Pregnancy loss
- Increase knowledge and skills
6. PREGNANCY CONCERNS
5: PRE-CONCEPTION PRESENTATIONS
5: PRE-CONCEPTION PRESENTATIONS
SESSION CONTENT:
- Understand more about pregnancy
- How pregnancy relates to emotional ill-health
- Five key perspectives and theories for pregnancy presentations
- Birth and postnatal preparation & prevention
- Unexpected and unplanned events in pregnancy
- Increase knowledge and skills
7: BIRTH AND BEYOND
8: INFANTS TO TODDLERS
8: INFANTS TO TODDLERS
LEARNING GOALS:
- About birth
- Birth trauma and postpartum PTSD
- The importance of birth
- Birth preparation
- Tokophobia
- Increase knowledge and skills
8: INFANTS TO TODDLERS
8: INFANTS TO TODDLERS
8: INFANTS TO TODDLERS
LEARNING GOALS:
- Trajectories to postnatal depression and anxiety
- Preventing postnatal maladjustment
- Infant mental health
- Working with the family
- Basic infant care
- Assisting and facilitating postnatal adjustment
- Increase knowledge and skills
BONUS CONTENT!
8: INFANTS TO TODDLERS
BONUS CONTENT!
Attendees who attend the full course of 8 sessions gain access to a series of bonus content - handouts, practical information & skills demonstration.
We launch every term in 2024:
Jan 30
April 24
July 18
Oct 11