Working with Veterans using EMDR
Description
This workshop aims to provide practical ideas for understanding and working with military personnel and veterans. The workshop will address the special characteristics and culture of this population and how to adapt EMDR accordingly, with an emphasis on assessment, formulation and forming a strong collaborative alliance.
Matthew has had extensive experience of working with this client group, and will use his engaging presentation style along with interactive tasks and video material to help attendees improve their skills and confidence in this area.
COURSE DETAILS
• The day will be a lively mixture of teaching, interactive exercises and video material
• It will cover relevant research around military mental health and EMDR.
• Clinical obstacles and therapy techniques to help engage this sometimes-challenging population into treatment.
• The day will discuss risk and protective factors of military culture and how they impact on treatment, history taking and ideas of conceptualisations.
• Preparation, engagement and use of military specific resources will be highlighted, and blocks to and during processing will be viewed.
• The course is suitable for all levels of experience and previous knowledge of military or veteran clients is not necessary
Workshop Outline
Myths, Facts and the Research around Military Mental Health
Military cultural issues
EMDR and combat related PTSD
Engaging the military/veteran client
Tailoring EMDR to this client group
Utilising resources
Previous feedback on this workshop:
‘Excellent’, ‘Lots of new ideas’, ‘Great presenter’, ‘Clear and credible’, ‘Very good indeed’, ‘Clear delivery and a good case examples’, ‘Very interesting’, ‘Lively and credible’, ‘Well delivered and organised’, ‘Lots of interesting ideas I can relate to veterans work, and working with Police, Prison Officers etc’…plus many more positive comments.
Biography for Matthew Wesson
Matthew Wesson is an EMDR Europe Accredited Trainer and Consultant, and has been using EMDR within his clinical work for over 15 years. He is also a BABCP Accredited CBT therapist. He works as an independent practitioner, supervisor and trainer. Previous to that he served in the Armed Forces for 21 years delivering mental health care to serving military personnel across the UK and also including tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. He has had several articles published in peer-reviewed journals on both CBT and EMDR, and has presented at international conferences. He has a particular interest in combat related PTSD and military mental health. He lives in Cheshire with his young family.
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