Compassion '08 Workshop
Effective Treatment of Complex Trauma in Attachment Relationships
Better Approaches to Healing PTSD, Depression, and Borderline Personality Disorder
Implications for Child Development, Education, Conflict Resolution and Patient-Centred Care
Friday, June 20, 2008 in Victoria, BC,
at the Ambrosia Conference Centre
638 Fisgard Street
8:45 am - 4:30 pm
Compassion '08 – Effective Treatment of Complex Trauma in Attachment Relationships – a one-day workshop in downtown Victoria at the Ambrosia Conference and Event Centre on Friday, June 20, 2008. Presented by Jon Allen, PhD, author of Coping with Trauma: Hope through Understanding, and Chair in Mental Health Research and Professor of Psychiatry at the Menninger Clinic (Baylor College of Medicine). Of interest to anyone who works with survivors of traumatic stress, especially those with a history of disrupted attachment relationships. Dr. Allen, with co-authors Peter Fonagy and Anthony Bateman, construe Mentalizing in Clinical Practice (published Feb 2008) as a core common factor in the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic interventions that cuts across treatment modalities and theoretical approaches, ranging from psychodynamic to interpersonal and cognitive therapies. Neuroimaging has defined a "mentalizing region" in the medial prefrontal cortex.
Open for registration, with $100 discount for students. Program brochure available online as a .pdf file (see link below), or call 1-250-595-4222 in Victoria, for more information, or to register.
The JazzFest International 2008 starts the same day, so out-of-town participants should book accommodation early! http://www.jazzvictoria.ca/
Workshop and Registration Information
Menninger's Psychoeducational Approaches - evolution to a Patient-Centred focus with fascinating implications for more effective approaches to psychoeducational groups, as described at: http://www.menningerclinic.com/treatment/psychoeducational.htm
Is this "Old Wine in New Bottles"? and other FAQs (under construction)
Who Should Attend (under construction)
Registration fees and how they were set (under construction)
Conference Brochure (contains registration form) brochure as a .pdf file
Page size registration form for greater ease in sending by fax One page registration form
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