Recognizing What Can Motivate Trauma Related Behavior and Responding Effectively

Belmont Behavioral Hospital and Sources For Human Services present:

Recognizing What Can Motivate Trauma Related Behavior and Responding Effectively

A Trauma and Recovery Perspective for Coping with the Challenges Experienced by Individuals with Complex Trauma

July 14, 2016, 9:30 – 4:00, Belmont Behavioral Hospital, 5 CEU’s, Talya Lewis, Psychoanalytic Fellow (Academic), Peer Educator

Talya Lewis, who was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and is now in recovery, experienced personally the effects of the professional challenge when she was struggling with trauma-based symptoms and behaviors. Talya is now a lay therapist, trainer, group facilitator, an inspiring public speaker, and an author.

Summary: Working with clients who have histories of trauma can challenge the compassion of the very people put in place to help, the mental health professionals. This workshop presents a clinical description of working with those who have traumatic histories from both an academic and personal describing her own experiences, Talya Lewis effectively illustrates the intense stigma that accompanies the often misunderstood behaviors of those in trauma treatment. Her interest in educating professionals in clinical settings led Talya to begin conducting educational workshops on BPD, self-injury, and trauma to clinicians, nurses, social workers, university level students, and anyone with a desire to learn about the defenses and thinking patterns of those affected by a traumatic past

Cost, When and Where: July 14, 2016, 9:30 – 4:00, Belmont Behavioral Hospital 4200 Monument Road, Philadelphia, PA 19131, 5 CEU’s, Talya Lewis, $130 per person, see directions below; fee includes presentation, all handouts, certificate, continental breakfast, PM refreshments

Training Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

     1. Define therapeutic alliance as a key factor for recovery

     2. Gain an understanding of how perceived invalidation and betrayal disrupt the therapeutic

relationship

     3. Define both the overt as well as covert traumatic experience

     4. Identify unresolved traumatic symptomology

     5. Understand traumatic behaviors as they are reenacted through the transference

     6. Gain an understanding of countertransference

     7. Utilize validation as a tool for communication

Agenda

9:00 – 9:30 Registration, light refreshments

9:30 – 10:00 Introduction, definitions of trauma; the fight, flight or freeze” response; what happens when trauma is unprocessed;

10:00-11:00 Trainer’s personal insight and direct experiences with trauma; traumatic experiences that happen within the service setting, i. e. involuntary commitment, restraints, seclusion; the therapeutic alliance; how perceived invalidation and betrayal disrupt the therapeutic relationship;

11:00 – 11:15 break

11:15- 12:00 Understanding your own personal history (counter-transference); turning stigma into compassion (building a “wall” of compassion) therapeutic alliance as a key factor for recovery; understanding the traumatized ego structure and how it presents in treatment

12:00- 1:00 (on your own)

1:00 – 2:30 Behaviors of the trauma survivor; emotional dysregulation in the trauma survivor; interpreting the trauma survivor’s cycle of bonding; a relationship dyad; emotional validation;

2:30 – 2:45 Break

2:45- 3:45 Dependency; trauma reenactment as a model for working with clients; validation techniques in the use of validation skills

3:45 – 4:00 Questions, discussion, summary, evaluations

CEU’s: This program is co-sponsored by Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. As a CSWE accredited program, the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College is a pre-approved provider of continuing education for social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists in Pennsylvania and many other states.

About the Speaker: Talya Lewis, Psychoanalytic Fellow (Academic), Peer Educator, is an animated, articulate, and passionate presenter who has captivated audiences throughout the region, including those from the Mental Health Association of Southeastern PA, Gaudenzia House, Girls Space, the Montgomery County Behavioral Health Court, Montgomery County Youth Center, Psychiatric Nursing Conference, 2009, Behavioral Health Training and Education Network (BHTEN) in Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Drexel University, College of Nursing and Health Professions, LaSalle University, and was a guest on Dan Gottlieb's Voices in the Family radio program, WHYY/NPR and Maiken Scott's Morning Edition.

Talya now facilitates two support groups, one for women who have traits consistent with BPD and trauma and one for parents/caregivers to help ease their isolation and to equip them with the education necessary to cope and respond effectively to their loved one. She co-developed and co-authored a manual for a ten-week workshop on working with borderline disorder (a diagnosis that is often linked with trauma) and bipolar disorder (often co-morbid with bpd). As she worked with those struggling with this painful symptomology as well as their loved ones, Talya was asked repeatedly by people desperate for help to enter treatment with her. She now has a private practice as a successful trauma coach or “lay therapist.”

As her final venture, her most cathartic yet most difficult project, Talya has written her memoir, The Boom Boom Retreat, a deeply moving personal account. With her lived experience, her education, and her lifelong learning about BPD, self-injury and trauma, her workshops offer invaluable personal insight and direct experiences.

Registration: 3 Ways to Register: Register on line: www. by Mail: Sources for Human Services, 62 Parkridge Drive, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, or register by Fax: [phone], E mail: *****@***com Phone: [phone]

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Discounts: Discounts of 20 % per person can be offered for agencies that register 5 or more staff

Cancellations and refunds: Registrants may cancel up to five days prior to the seminar. Refunds cannot be given after that date.

Directions: Belmont Behavioral Hospital, 4200 Monument Road, Philadelphia, PA 19131

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Using Monument Rd…..cross Ford Road and enter at the second driveway entrance……there is a blue sign indicating Parking Lot C and D. Note the iron fence on left…..After parking, enter the gate door in the fence…you will have to be buzzed in…follow path and the signs to the training room

From Center City, South Philadelphia, Airport, Amtrak Station
Take I-76 West to City Avenue (this exit is on the left side of the highway). After making a right at the end of the exit ramp, proceed to the second light, staying in either of the left-hand turn lanes (Monument Road; Channels 6 and 10 are on this corner). Turn left onto Monument and go through second light (Ford Road). Belmont is on the left.

From North, Northeast Philadelphia, Bucks County, Trenton, and Princeton
Take US 1 (Roosevelt Boulevard) South to I-76 West (toward Valley Forge). Get into left lane and take the first exit, City Avenue. After making a right at the end of the exit ramp, proceed to the second light, staying in either of the left-hand turn lanes (Monument Road; Channels 6 and 10 are on this corner). Turn left onto Monument and go through second light (Ford Road). Belmont is on the left.

From Delaware County, Eastern Main Line
Take US 1 (City Avenue) North to Belmont Avenue (Mobil station on corner) and turn right. At first light, turn left onto Ford Road. Proceed to the next light and turn right onto Monument Road. Belmont is on the left.

From King of Prussia and Valley Forge Area
Take I-76 East to City Avenue exit. After making a right at the end of the exit ramp, proceed to the second light, staying in either of the left-hand turn lanes (Monument Road; Channels 6 and 10 or on this corner). Turn left onto Monument and go through second light (Ford Road). Belmont is on left.

From Lower Montgomery County and Route 611 Corridor
From Jenkintown/points North: Take PA 611 South to Washington Lane and turn right. (From Elkins Park, take 611 North to 73 West, then left onto Washington.) Follow Washington into Philadelphia; turn right onto Wayne Avenue. Cross the bridge and turn left onto Johnson Street. Turn left onto Lincoln Drive. Follow signs to City Avenue. Proceed on City to third light, staying in either of the left-hand turn lanes (Monument Road; Channels 6 and 10 are on this corner). Turn left onto Monument and go through second light (Ford Road). Belmont is on left.