Brattleboro Retreat brings "Therapeutic Interventions with Survivor Parents" to the Capitol Plaza in Montpelier
10/15/2009 - 8:30am
Brattleboro Retreat brings “Therapeutic Interventions with Survivor Parents” to the Capitol Plaza in Montpelier
Brattleboro, VT
Karen Saakvitne , Ph.D., will open the Brattleboro Retreat’s continuing education fall season in Montpelier at the Capitol Plaza with “Changing Intergenerational Patterns: Therapeutic Interventions for Survivor Parents.” The all day workshop will take place on Thursday, October 15th beginning at 8:30 in the morning. Registration is required.
Dr. Saakvitne will offer specific strategies for providing support, empowerment, improved parenting skills, and personal understanding to parents who have their own childhood histories of abuse and neglect. In addition, the needs of and experiences of helping professionals will be addressed with special attention to countertransference issues and vicarious traumatization. This workshop will be relevant to those who work directly with survivor parents and those who work with children and family members of survivor parents.
A clinical psychologist in private practice in Northampton, Massachusetts and a parent herself, Dr. Saakvitne in the former clinical director for the Traumatic Stress Institute in East Windsor, Connecticut. She specializes in trauma, supervising therapists who work with trauma clients, and the effects of vicarious traumatization. She has authored four books including “Risking Connection”, a training curriculum for working with survivors of childhood trauma.
Those interested in registering for the conference may do so online at www.brattlebororetreat.org or by calling Gay Maxwell, Education Coordinator, at 802-258-4359. The full cost is $140, includes lunch, and CEUs are available.
The Brattleboro Retreat will bring two more conferences this fall to the Capitol Plaza in Montpelier. Ken C. Winters, Ph.D., will present “Adolescent Drug Abuse Assessment and Treatment: Clinical Approaches and Strategies” on Thursday, November 19. Gerald P. Koocher, Ph.D. will present “21st Century Ethical Issues for the Mental Health Practitioner” on Thursday, December 10th
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