TRiM Practitioners

TRiM Practitioners
(inclusive of BTEC Level 3):
26-27 January 2015 and 27-28 April 2015
£540 plus VAT (usually £675 plus VAT)
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A skills-based course, trained by experienced and skilled TRiM experts who have routinely worked with individuals affected by traumatic incidents.

TRiM Managers
(inclusive of BTEC Level 5):
28-29 January 2015 and 29-30 April 2015
£600 plus VAT (usually £750 plus VAT)
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For those who have completed the TRiM Practitioners’ Course and who are required to take up a TRiM Manager’s role within their organisation; or, simply, for those who want to enhance their TRiM credentials.

If both of these courses are booked together you will receive an additional discount £1068 plus VAT

Both of the Managers and Practitioners courses are accredited for 20 points each for the ESTSS European Certificate in Psychotraumatology.


Advanced Mentoring Skills:
30 January 2015 and 1 May 2015
£200 plus VAT (usually £250 plus VAT)
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This interactive skills based training course is designed to provide anyone who may carry out a supportive role with the knowledge and tools to enable them to do so. The expectation is that each delegate will leave the study day having acquired new skills and gained an understanding based upon credible scientific evidence. The day will include a mixture taught elements, facilitated exercises and demonstrations.

Veterans' Mental Health – Facts Fiction and Future

Date: 11th February 2015
Venue: King’s College, London

This one day conference, hosted by the King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR), will provide attendees with an up to date view on both what is known about the scale of the problems faced by Veterans, and their families, and what is being, and can be, done to improve the situation.

Last Booking Date for this Event - 6th February 2015

Speakers will include:
Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Royal College of Psychiatrists
Professor Nicola Fear, King’s College London
Professor Edgar Jones, Institute of Psychiatry
Dr Vanessa Lewis, Help for Heroes
Dave Rutter, Department of Health
Matthew Fossey, Anglia Ruskin University
Veterans’ Mental Health – Facts, Fiction and Future

The Mental Health of Veterans is a topic that is frequently debated in the media and in parliament. However, there remains a considerable ‘fog of war’ surrounding the topic with hearsay and anecdote often getting more airtime than robust research evidence or fact.

Acceptance and Committment Therapy for Posttraumatic Problems in Living

Presenter: Dr. Sonja Batten
Date: 9.30am - 5.00pm, 24th April 2015
Venue: TBC - Central London

Fee: £96 UKPTS members will receive a 20% discount (normally £120). Please quote your current 2014/15 membership and email contextualconsulting@eyas.co.uk direct to receive the discount.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy offers an alternative to existing approaches for trauma survivors by helping clients to reconnect with ideals and principles for living that are deeply important to them and that dignify the difficult events that they have survived. This one-day workshop will introduce applications of ACT for survivors of either civilian or military-related trauma. Using a framework of experiential avoidance, participants will learn to adapt traditional exposure-based interventions for an acceptance-based model. You will draw on experiential exercises to help clients move toward values, rather than away from pain. The workshop will demonstrate mindfulness practices that may be useful for trauma survivors. Participants will develop a personal training plan to promote ongoing learning and application of ACT principles. Dr. Sonja Batten is a clinical psychologist with two decades of experience in ACT. She has presented workshops internationally and is the Past President ofthe Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. Dr. Batten has extensive experience in the field of traumatic stress. She is the author of the well received text, Essentials of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

Trauma-Focussed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT) for Children and Young People with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Date: 10am-4.30pm, 8th May 2015
Venue: Anna Freud Centre, London
Tutor: David Trickey

Trauma-Focussed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT) is the only intervention recommended by NICE guidelines for Children and Young People with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The cognitive model of PTSD in children and young people (Meiser-Stedman, 2002) will be presented and explained. This model will be used to consider:

1 How children and families react to traumatic events
2 Risk factors for PTSD and
3 How TF-CBT and related interventions decrease distress and increase functioning.

Based on the notion of “processing”, ways in which a healing environment can be created around the child will be discussed, so that processing of the event is more likely to occur spontaneously. Direct TF-CBT interventions with the young person, with the family and with the school will be described and some time will be given to considering the difficulties associated with the fact that the intervention involves doing something that the client wishes to avoid.

The evidence for TF-CBT and other interventions will be presented. The workshop will use a variety of training methods including interactive presentation of theory with case illustrations (with clients’ consent) and small group discussion.

This course is suitable for practitioners who have a therapeutic role with children and young people who have experienced traumatic events. The course will also be accredited to the Certificate of Psychotraumatology.

Aims of the course

By the end of this workshop, the participants should:

• Be familiar with and understand the cognitive model of PTSD,
• Be aware of how children and young people commonly react to traumatic events, (including PTSD) and how the cognitive model can account for these reactions,
• Have some understanding of how developmental and systemic factors impact on such a model,
• Understand how to intervene effectively using TF-CBT, taking into account developmental and systemic issues,
• Be familiar with the evidence supporting TF-CBT for children and young people with PTSD.

Upcoming non-UK Events

June 10-13, 2015
European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS)

2015 Conference
Vilnius, Lithuania

More information

Abstract submisssions are now open and you can find the link here