To provide a forum for multi-disciplinary professionals working in the field of psychotrauma to share ideas and knowledge relevant to their work in the field
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Venue: Haydn Ellis Building, Maindy Rd, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 2HQ
The following workshops are geared towards those members currently undertaking the ESTSS Certificate in Psychotraumatology and are accredited.
1. Online guided self-help for the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - Dr Catrin Lewis
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2. Working with children with PTSD - CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES.
3. MDMA for PTSD - Dr Mat Hoskins & Dr Ben Sessa
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4. DSM5/ICD11 for PTSD - Professor Jon Bisson
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5. Dr Neil Kitchiner and Dr Neil Roberts - Introduction to Traumatic Stress (Full day ESTSS certified workshop)
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Trauma across the Lifespan
1. How early adverse life events and trauma can affect later family relationships - Professor Kevin Browne, Director of the Centre for Forensic & Family Psychology at the University of Nottingham Medical School, UK
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2. Treating Complex Trauma: a sequenced, relationship-based approach in Adolescents and Adults - Dr Christine Courtois, National Clinical Trauma Consultant, USA
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3. Attachment and Developmental Trauma - Dr Miriam Silver, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, UK
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4. Trauma in later life: the importance of understanding context - Dr Imogen Sturgeon-Clegg, Consultant Counselling Psychologist and Professional Lead Adviser for the Ministry of Defence, UK
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1. Dr Christine Courtois, National Clinical Trauma Consultant, USA
Treating Complex Trauma: a sequenced, relationship-based approach
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2. Dr Imogen Sturgeon-Clegg, Consultant Counselling Psychologist and Professional Lead Adviser for the Ministry of Defence, UK
The challenges of working with trauma in later life
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3. Professor Neil Greenberg, Professor of Defence Mental Health, King's College, London
Veterans and Traumatic Stress: what you should know and what to look out for
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4. Gavin Rees, Director of Dart Centre Europe and UKPTS board member & Sarah Ward-Lilley, Head of International Bureaux, BBC News Group, London & UKPTS board member
Trauma and Journalism: the media’s role in reporting tragic events and the impact on news professionals - Slides unavailable
5. Gill Moreton, Psychological Therapist at the Rivers Centre in Edinburgh and UKPTS Treasurer
“What about us?” Supporting the family and friends of people with traumatic stress disorders
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6. Susie Reade, Mental Health Practitioner, Meadows Sexual Trauma Service, CAMHS, Edinburgh & Gita Ingram, retired Team Leader, Edinburgh Connect (CAMHS)
What do you expect from the grown-ups? Using Story Stem Assessment to understand attachment and trauma in young people
7. Prof Kevin Browne, Director of the Centre for Forensic & Family Psychology at the University of Nottingham Medical School.
From victim to offender: a forensic psychology perspective
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8. Dr Miriam Silver, Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Differential diagnosis: developmental disorder or the impact of developmental trauma?
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9. Dr Deborah Lee, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Head of Berkshire Traumatic Stress Service & South Central Veterans Service and a UKPTS board member
Developing compassionate resilience as part of a phased phased approach to treating complex PTSD: 12 session group outline.
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10. Dr Rachel Morley, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Team Leader, Compass, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
& Dr Sharon Doherty, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Compass, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
Working therapeutically with trafficked adults and young people
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11. Dr Laura Toplis, Principal Clinical Psychologist, East of England Major Trauma Centre, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge and UKPTS Board Member
Working with the psychological sequelae of major physical trauma
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12. Stuart Allardyce, Social Worker, Barnardo’s & on secondment to Centre for Youth & Criminal Justice, Strathclyde University
Picking up the pieces: Recent developments in relation to adolescent harmful sexual behaviour and trauma
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13. Dr Ian Barron, Reader/Senior Educational Psychologist, University of Dundee & Director of PhD programme, School of Education, Social Work & Community Education
& David Mitchell, Professional Services Manager, Rossie Young People’s Trust
Trauma Recovery across Scotland's Secure Estate: Young people with developmental trauma in residential secure care
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Neurobiology and Pharmacological Treatment of PTSD: Dr Walter Busuttil
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Treatment of PTSD in Children and Adolescents: Dr David Trickey
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An Introduction to Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) in Adults and Children (KIDNET): Dr Katy Robjant & Dr Alison Hauenstein-Swan
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Organisational Management of Traumatic Stress: Professor Neil Greenberg
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Neurobiology and Pharmacological Treatment of PTSD: Dr Walter Busuttil
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Treatment of PTSD in Children and Adolescents: Dr David Trickey
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An Introduction to Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) in Adults and Children (KIDNET): Dr Katy Robjant & Dr Alison Hauenstein-Swan
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Organisational Management of Traumatic Stress: Professor Neil Greenberg
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Dr Robin Bennett
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Dr Jo Billings
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Dr Deborah Lee
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Dr Mark Andrew McFetridge
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Gill Moreton & Sarah Heke
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Dr Lisa Reynolds
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Dr Sandi Richman & Dr Maeve Crowley
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Second batch of workshop slides
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Dr Kerry Young & Dr Katy Robjant
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Professor Chris Freeman
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Dr Anne Douglas
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Dr Sandi Richman
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Dr Sarah Heke & Dr Deborah Lee
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Workshop 1. Introduction to traumatic stress. Dr Alastair Hull.
Workshop 2. Organisational management of traumatic stress. Prof. Neil Greenberg.
Workshop 3. Dissociation in PTSD. Dr Fiona Kennedy.
Workshop 4. Introduction to traumatic stress (part 2). Dr Alistair Hull.
Workshop 5. Military service and mental health. Dr Nicola Fear & Laura Goodwin.
Workshop 6. From court to report. Dr Sarah Heke.
Workshop 7. TFCBT for children and young people with PTSD. Dr David Tricky. Rationale. References.
Workshop 8. Fabrication. Rebecca Wilkinson.
Richard Meiser-Stedman
Keynote address delivered at UKPTS conference Edinburgh March 2012 - PTSD in preschoolers, children and adolescents. Resilience, recovery and remedy.
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John Briere
Keynote address delivered at UKPTS conference Edinburgh March 2012 - Advances in the integrated treatment of complex trauma.
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Pamela Dix
Keynote address delivered at UKPTS conference Edinburgh March 2012 - On the Receiving End of Trauma.
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Michael Paterson
Keynote address deleivered at UKPTS conference Edinburgh March 2012 - Innovations in the practice of EMDR.
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Sharon Doherty & Rachel Morley
Workshop entitled: Working Therapeutically with Trafficked Adults and Young people within a Human Rights Context.
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David Gillanders & Lesley Hunter
Workshop entitled: Living well after trauma using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy.
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Paula Easton & Katharine Logan
Workshop entitled: Trauma Focused CBT for Traumatised Adults.
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A United Approach taken to veteran’s mental health
A groundbreaking partnership has been formed between the military, NHS and charity to look after the needs of veterans with mental health problems. Colchester Garrison’s Department of Community Mental Health (DCMH), North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Combat Stress have come together to form the North Essex Veterans Mental Health Network, the first of its kind in the country. The partnership, which works under the slogan A United Approach, held a conference at the Weston Homes Community Stadium in Colchester October 2011, to explore the services already available for veterans locally and improve links between organisations working in the field. The network is the idea of Lt Col (Retd) Mike Srinivasan, consultant psychiatrist at DCMH Colchester, and grew out of work by DCMH staff to help a veteran who was leaving the Army but needed continuing mental health care. The three partners came together with the support of Enable East, an NHS team with specialist skills and expertise to support the delivery of public sector projects. A bid to the Department of Health secured £130,000 funding from a budget set up to improve services following the 2010 report into military mental health care byDr Andrew Murrison MP. Lt Col (Retd) Srinivasan said: “This is a great opportunity for the three main organisations that are responsible for the mental health care of our military personnel, who later become veterans, to share ideas and work together to create care pathways.
For more information visit http://nevmhn.org.uk/
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May 2012 Dr Mike Srinivasan.
Dr Anne Douglas OBE, UKPTS committee member
Was presented in 2012 Queens birthday honours list for her work setting up and leading Scotland's only NHS specialist service for asylum seekers and refugees, Compass.
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The Psychological Health of Private Security Contractors
Prof. Neil Greenberg introduces this interesting and under researched area. "It is well known that military personnel are a group which is at particular risk of developing traumatic stress related mental health disorders as a result of events they are exposed to whilst on duty. Since the recent Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts began in 2002, many personnel who leave the services have gone into the private security industry. Whether those that do so are the most healthy veterans or are those who feel they cannot get to grips with life as a civilian is largely unknown? This paper provides an overview of what is known about the mental health of private security contractors in order that any UKPTS member who might treat someone working in this industry is able to understand the background to this topic".
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Flashbacks & flash forwards
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April 4, 2011 Dr Emily Holmes
The relationship between trauma & psychosis
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April 4, 2011 Dr Craig Steel
The science & art of treating PTSD in children
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April 4, 2011 Dr Bill Yule
Working with veterans of the military, Busuttil click here & Kitchiner click here.
Psychology, trauma & the law, Heke & Smith click here.
Cognitive behavioural analysis system of psychotherapy, Hull, part one & part two.
Cognitive behavioural treatment of PTSD in psychosis, Smith, click here.
Date: April 4 Oxford, 2011
During the annual conference the second meeting of the research group was help and attended by 13 UKPTS mebers. Click here for more information.
An abbreviated version of Edinburgh Psychological First Aid incorporating an adaptation of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT – PT): a practical manual. Click here to view.
Cognitive therapy for PTSD.
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May 12, 2010. Prof. David Clark
An introduction to traumatic stress, Daly & Hull.
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Psychological treatments for PTSD, Kitchiner & Robb.
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EMDR for the treatment of PTSD, Patterson.
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PTSD and chronic pain, Hunter & Wilson.
Emotion in PTSD, Power.
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Compassion focussed PTSD, Lee.
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Treatment of complex PTSD, Busuttil.
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Psychological disaster planning, Davidson, Hughes & Rose.
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Assessing wrongly convicted individuals, Grounds.
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DSM V & ICD 11, Freeman.
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June 16, 2010 Dr Jamie Hacker Hughes, Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
Trim was developed by the UK military as a peer delivered intervention to facilitate identification, assessment and signposting for individuals and groups involved in traumatic experiences. Now used in all three of the UK's Armed Forces, TRiM is also in use in a number of Government Departments, NGOs, BBC, many police forces and ambulance services. It is also a first line intervention in many overseas nations.
Trauma risk management (TRiM) in the UK armed forces. N Greenberg, V Langston, and N Jones. JR Army Med Corps 154(2): 123-126, 2008. Click here.
Stigma and the Military: Evaluation of a PTSD Psycho-educational Program. Matthew Gould, Neil Greenberg and Jacquie Hetherton. Journal of Traumatic Stress, Vol. 20, No. 4, August 2007, 1–11. Click here.
Peer-group risk assessment: a post-traumatic management strategy for hierarchical organizations. N. Jones, P. Roberts and N. Greenberg. Occupational Medicine 2003; 53: 469–475. Click here.
'Psychological risk assessment following the terrorist attacks in New York in 2001'. Greenberg, Neil , Dow, C. and Bland, Duncan. Journal of Mental Health, 2009, 18: 3, 216 — 223. Click here.
A brief update on British veterans of the armed forces. Click here.
June 21, 2010. Dr Walter Busuttil, Medical Director of Combat Stress.
A comprehensive overview of work by Dr's Smith & Heke during the past five years in encouraging professionals working for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Metropolitan Police to improve the service they provide to victims of rape & sexual assault and the impact on mind & behaviour. Click here.
October 25, 2010. Dr Georgina Smith & Dr Sarah Heke, from the Haven Paddington & Institute of Psychotrauma London.
December 3, 2010. Dr. Neil J. Kitchiner, Principal Clinician, All Wales Veterans Mental Health & Wellbeing Service, Cardiff.
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Trauma rarely effects only one individual is isolation; whether directly or through a ripple effect others are affected. Most traumatised individuals belong to a family and the effects of trauma on this system should not be ignored. This paper describes the setting up of a systemic therapy team specialising in trauma." Click here.
January 22, 2011. Dr Alaistair Hull, Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Scotland.
Have been emerging as standard practice for supporting staff in high risk agencies such as the emergency services, military, and mental health where exposure to potentially traumatic events is high relative to the general population. Despite their increasing popularity and implementation across a range of high risk services, there is currently no evidence base for the effectiveness of these programs. Moreover, little consensus exists around the most basic concepts and issues surrounding peer support such as how it is defined, its goals, how peer support programs should be implemented, and how effective they are on a range of outcomes. In 2010 the Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health collaborated with an international team of experts and peer support practitioners and utilised the Delphi method in an attempt to achieve consensus on a range of issues in peer support. The UK was well-represented in this process with 16% of the total participants.
The attached final report was published in February 2011 and makes a number of recommendations that will be of interest to all those working in the field of traumatic stress and resilience and which will be essential reading to those working with the uniformed services and other organisations committed to models of peer support. Click here.
February 17, 2011. Gill Moreton, The Rivers Centre, Edinburgh.
The attached TOP DD (Treatment of Patients with Dissociative Disorders) study, which included findings from 18 countries around the world has assisted in raising awareness of dissociative disorders as well as providing some insight into the training required for therapists to work effectively with this client group. A high prevalence rate and an average of 8.4 years in treatment with a therapist trained in dissociative disorders, resulted in clients with polysymptomatology move from safety and stabilization to more integrated functioning. However even after three years in treatment, there was a reduction in areas such as depression, dissociation and PTSD as well as fewer self-injurious behaviours and suicide attempts. In short, the study has provided data to demonstrate that treating clinical problems directly associated with complex trauma could have significant financial implications. In the current economic climate where there is pressure to evidence that treatment is not only effective but also cost-efficient, this study has policy as well as research implications. Although this research was conducted on individuals being treated by community-based therapists, there is a recommendation from the ISSTD (International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation) that treating individuals with dissociative disorders will be most effective using a combined specialised residential treatment programme that this is trauma-focussed, with follow-up treatment delivered by experienced clinicians in the community. Click here.
May 27, 2011 Dawn Harris, Clinical Psychologist, Harris Howard Psychology Practice, Edinburgh.
At the UKTG (United Kingdom Trauma Group) we have often discussed the issue of how we react to new “novel” therapies. I agreed to try and develop a rating scale for this and we have now put the ANTS scale on the UKPTS website. The psychological trauma world has a large number of new “innovative” and largely untested treatments. How do we evaluate such novel therapies which do not have a firm evidence-base? To simple say no to all such intervention because they are not NICE approved or because there are no randomised trials, may stifle innovation but to accept them uncritically may expose patients to ineffective unregulated and poorly conceptualised interventions. Click here to download the scale.
June 22, 2011 Chris Freeman, President UKPTS.
Dr Anne Douglas is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and head of the Trauma service for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Dr Douglas is also a board member with UKPTS. Over 10 years ago she set up the Compass team for asylum seekers and refugees with complex trauma presentations which are usually linked to experiences such as torture and rape in their countries of origin. In this article she describes the necessity for a holistic approach to assessing and working with this client group. It stresses the multiple factors that impact on an asylum seekers' sense of identity and the importance of embedding any specific trauma focussed work in a programme which includes social, educational and vocational components. This paper provides a useful introduction to work in this area. You can read more about the Compass team at www.nhsggc.org.uk/compass.
Click here. July 31, 2011 Dr Anne Douglas.
This Power Point presentaion by Professor Miranda Olff, Editor of the European Journal of Psychotraumatology describes the activity of this on-line publication so far. Click here to view the presentation. Click here. July 31, 2011 Dr Anne Douglas.
