Relate Institute Continuous Professional Development Courses

                       Children, Parents and Families

Juliet Grayson

A fascinating insight into how we all process and experience life differently and how understanding this can overcome difficulties in communication and in relationships.

Exploring these three often inter-related conditions. Looking at the impact on relationships and learning skills in supporting relationships affected by these issues.

Highlights the importance of emotional regulation in mental health and well being. Outlining the neuroscience of early development showing how early experiences shape our self regulation, brain development and how this impacts on attachments in adult relationships.

Working with Loss, Hope and Doing what is possible

Supporting Parents of children with additional needs.

Offering Practitioners and support workers key training in the additional skills needed to work empathically with parents and families who have a child with additional support needs.

This day aims to raise awareness of the problematic and controversial nature of Personality Disorders. As well as the opportunity to explore and understand the condition you will learn approaches and skills that will enable sensitive and effective support of someone with a diagnosis along with their partner or family members.

Child Focused Practice: A  Collaborative Systemic Approach

Raising awareness and help to recognise the different presenting symptoms of different depressive conditions. Highlighting the distinctions between depressive conditions and their impact on relationships.

Counselling Children; Broadening context and deepening skills

This day is intended to provide counsellors in the Child and Young Peoples Service of Relate with a framework for practice with children that extends thinking and engagement towards those other significant people in their lives. 

A workshop to increase the understanding of this complex disorder and to develop useful strategies and methods for working with communication within the relationship of couples where one person has the diagnosis of Asperger's.

How to work with organisational expectations, managing confidentiality and responding appropriately to another's suicidal thoughts. 

Self Harm

Exploring self harm as a process to understand the motivations and outcomes of the behaviour can help therapists explore their own reactions and responses to self harm so that they can support clients in understanding their own process.

Resourcefulness and Flexibility: Counselling Children and Young People

This course will aim to widen the style and repertoire of the counsellor and offer a broader definition of what is “therapeutic“ in  counselling . The talking cure may be combined with movement and other forms of animated practice.

From Stuck state to Success: negotiating impasses in therapy

This interactive workshop will use  methods and ideas drawn  from a systemic orientation to practice in order to explore the logic and potential in therapeutic impasses and to find new resources and possibilities in  creatively working with Children and Young People in the social context of their lives. How mapping their world allows us to navigate their experience.

Offers counsellors the opportunity to improve their ability to comfortably discuss sexual issues with their clients; identifying blocks for themselves and for clients and being aware of hen referral is appropriate.

Recognising Sexual Addiction

Manchester

Tuesday 10th January 2012

A focus on how to support couples facing sexual addiction within their relationship; moving from disclosure to the decision as to whether to heal their relationship or to separate.

A fascinating insight into how we all process and experience life differently and how understanding this can overcome difficulties in communication and in relationships.

An understanding of the impact of cancer treatments on sexuality, sexual function and relationships as well as the sense of self and the impact on the family dynamics.

An overview of the physical and psychological aspects of sexual health and well being within intimate relationships. Exploring the social construction of sexual health and well being and how to raise and work with this in relationships and family counselling contexts.

A workshop aimed at working with the sexual side of a relationship where one person is affected by Asperger's Syndrome

Tight ropes and Safety nets: counselling and psychotherapy with suicidal clients

How to work with organisational expectations, managing confidentiality and responding appropriately to another's suicidal thoughts. 

Exploring self harm as a process to understand the motivations and outcomes of the behaviour can help therapists explore their own reactions and responses to self harm so that they can support clients in understanding their own process.