Part 1 EMDR Europe Accredited Child Training
This training is designed for clinicians experienced in
working with children and adolescents. This practical 2-day training is
designed to ensure that the over-arching developmental stages of children are
taken into account when utilising EMDR to ensure the correct developmental
protocol is used to maximise therapeutic benefit to the child and their family During the training, an overview of working
systemically with children will be taught alongside the technical modifications
of standard EMDR components by age groups (toddler, pre-school aged children,
school aged children and teenagers), supported by videos of children with which
the different developmental protocols are used. In addition, practical skills such as the
adaptations required in explaining EMDR to children, eliciting a safe place
appropriate to the child’s age and developmental stage, stretching the window
of tolerance to accommodate improved emotional regulation and examples of how
children emotionally regulate differently to adults will be also taught. Finally,
a brief introduction to what to do when processing becomes blocked including
the use of interweaves with children and the 4-fields group protocol for
children will also be shared.
This workshop will include practicums and skills-based
learning to help consolidate learning and flexibility in the delivery of EMDR
with children.
Children are in a constant state of chance and evolution:
both physiologically, neurologically, cognitively, emotionally and
socially. Children and adolescents do
not exist alone but in the context of their families, hence it is impossible to
work with a child without taking the context of their system into account –
whether or not the system is physically present. The emotional and chronological age of the
child needs to be taken into account in the language and the developmental
protocol used in both understanding and treating the child’s difficulties from
both the systemic stance as well as from the child’s own understanding of their
difficulties. In this way, working with
children and their families can be seen as equally flexible and challenging.
Susan
Darker-Smith - EMDR Europe Accredited Child & Adolescent Trainer
Susan is an accredited EMDR Consultant and an accredited
Europe Child Trainer who works in a CAMHS team within the NHS alongside her
private work. She has been actively
involved in the formation of a National Trauma Response Service in the UK
offering group and early intervention EMDR for victims of National terrorist
attacks and natural disasters (initially in response to children displaying
trauma symptoms in the weeks following the Manchester terror attack).
Susan has a wealth of experience in working with complex and
dissociative client groups and through this work, she developed an EMDR
protocol for working with young people with attachment difficulties and
emerging emotional unstable personality disorders. She has lectured at a national and global
level on her research and interventions in both EMDR and CBT.
Susan is currently working alongside clinicians both from a
paediatric background who work with EMDR and pain and clinicians working with
looked after children, to see if different protocol modifications are more
effective in helping these specific client groups to recover.
Susan currently sits on the EMDR UK & Ireland child and
adolescent section alongside being a Trustee of the National Trauma Response
Service. In addition to teaching the EMDR Child
Trainings, Susan facilitates for the EMDR Academy and additionally teaches
advanced-skills EMDR master-classes.
Eligibility to attend EMDR Europe Part 1 Child Training
In order to attend Part 1 of EMDR child training you must
have attended a Part 1 and Part 2 of a basic EMDR accredited course, or the old
Level 1 Accredited EMDR training. Certificate copies will be asked for as
evidence of attendance. You must be working with children in your workplace and
have experience of working with children,
you agreeing to this by applying for the course.
If you would like to attend please complete our online booking
form
For further information about the use of EMDR with children
please read the child & adolescent page from EMDR Europe
Cost £415 Price includes workshop, workshop material
refreshments and lunch
13th and 14th June 2018 at Buckfast
Abby Conference centre
Closing date for bookings and payments Friday 20th
April.
Places limited and will be allocated on a first come first
served basis.
Please refer to terms
and conditions
Booking form and terms and condtions
