Trauma Center Workshops
The Trauma Center at JRI offers a variety of workshops and clinical consultation groups designed to provide professional support and advanced, hands-on learning opportunities for clinicians and other providers working with children and adults who have experienced trauma. Workshops provide state-of-the-art information about key topics in the field of traumatic stress, integrating innovative and well-established practices and areas of exploration. Consultation groups are organized around key thematic areas, and are space-limited to maximize participants experience.
Trauma-Informed Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: A Dyadic Treatment for Children and Their Caregivers
Date:
Session 1:
April 23, 2008, 9:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.
April 24, 2008, 9:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.
April 25, 2008, 9:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M.
Session 2:
May 19, 2008, 9:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.
May 20, 2008, 9:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M.
*Note: Participants must attend all training dates in order to receive credit for this course
Cost: $725.00; includes five days training + all course materials
Presenter: Dawna Gabowitz, Ph.D., Kristina Konnath, LICSW
Helping children and their caregivers establish healthy, productive relationships can be one of the most challenging aspects of our job as clinicians. Traditional parent training, while helpful in imparting knowledge about parenting skills, does not always translate into creating healthier relationships between children and their caregivers. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), originally developed by Dr. Sheila Eyeberg of the University of Florida, is an empirically supported, short-term parent training intervention that focuses on improving the caregiver-child relationship and increasing children’s positive behaviors. It teaches caregivers (biological parents, foster parents, adoptive parents, etc) specific behavior management techniques as they play with their child. PCIT is unique to other forms of parent training as caregivers are coached live by the therapist while engaging in specific play therapy and discipline skills with their child. PCIT has been found to be a particularly effective treatment, backed by 20 years of research.
Befriending the Body: Neuroscience & Yoga in Trauma Treatment
Dates: IS POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Presenters: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. & David Emerson, RYT
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Teaching Certificate From the Trauma Center at JRI Yoga Program
*THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL, REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
Dates: Wednesday, January 9, 2008; Thursday, January 10, 2008;Tuesday, May 20, 2008 and Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Time: 8:30 AM- 4:00 PM; 20 hours syllabus-directed at-home work
Location: 1019 Commonwealth Avenue
Cost: $600
Prerequisite: Participants must be certified yoga teachers
Presenters: David Emerson, RYT; Jodi Carey; Dana Moore, M.A.R., M.A.; Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
At the Trauma Center at JRI, we have begun to establish empirically that yoga may be helpful for people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (van der Kolk, 2006). Along with feedback such as, “I feel like I can use my body again,” the groundbreaking study that the Trauma Center conducted in 2004 showed that yoga changes core physiology related to PTSD. Since that time, the Trauma Center Yoga Program team has taught hundreds of classes to thousands of students from survivors of rape and childhood incest to Iraq war veterans. We are now offering a 40-hour certificate to certified yoga teachers who would like to teach trauma-sensitive classes in their communities.
EMDR with Survivors of Chronic Abuse and Neglect: Repairing Developmental Deficits and Shattered Selves
Date: October 18, 2008
Time: 9:00 A.M.-4:00 P.M.
Cost: $150
Presenter: Deborah Korn, Ph.D.
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