CBT Skills - Working With Difficult Relationships
Facilitated by Dr Ruth Rushton
27th February 2010
This workshop will explore ways of working with difficult interpersonal styles. Relationship difficulties and associated emotional distress are some of the most common issues brought to therapy / counselling. Enduring negative patterns of relating can have a powerful influence on the therapeutic relationship. Participants will explore their own experiences of client work. The workshop will suggest cognitive behavioural frameworks to guide exploration of complex relationship patterns and methods for achieving emotional stability in the therapeutic alliance. The emphasis will be on gaining practical guidance and reflecting on working with clients without reliance on psychiatriac classifications of personality disorder.
The workshop is suitable for people with different levels of experience/practice development and aims to enhance a reflective and optimistic approach to client work and use of supervision.
DR RUTH RUSHTON
Dr Rushton is a Chartered Clinical and Forensic Psychologist
and has worked as a psychologist
for more than twenty years. She has worked in a range of settings, with
different client groups, including clients presenting with a range of
mental health issues, substance misuse problems, people in prison (male and
female, young and adult offenders), familes with young children, children with
disabilities and work with traumatised people (e.g. assaults at work, car
accidents, combat trauma). Dr Rushton works for the NHS and also for Action For
Change, an Alcohol and Substance misuse service in Hastings, East Sussex.
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This is the first time we have delivered this Workshop.