Working With Survivors of Childhood Abuse
Facilitated by Dr Ruth Rushton
24th April 2010
This workshop gives participants an opportunity to explore their own perceptions and / or experience of working with clients who have been abused. The day will be used to reflect on useful theoretical models and ways of working. There will be an emphasis on meeting the needs of individual clients, including assessing a person's stage of recovery and readiness to change. Exercises will allow participants to practice approaches to working with enduring difficulties. The workshop aims to help participants gain confidence in working with people who present with extreme emotional distress and long-standing psychological difficulties.
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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