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Vicarious Trauma and Compassion Fatigue
SPSW is pleased to present its latest workshop, Vicarious Trauma and Compassion Fatigue presented by Dr. Barbara Meddin, a well known and respected social work practitioner, supervisor, and trainer. This workshop is aimed at assisting human service workers to understand what vicarious trauma is and to develop the skills and knowledge required to realize they may be at risk of vicarious trauma or are experiencing it as a result of work they do. Goals of the workshop: Identify what is…
Find out more »Thought Field Therapy Tapping
SPSW is pleased to present this workshop, Thought Field Therapy Tapping, by Christopher Semmens, a clinical psychologist with 23 years private practice experience. Trauma-informed care & practice (TICP) is a framework for the provision of services for mental health clients that originated in the early 1990s. Recent developments signal a greater recognition of “person” factors in certain medical conditions. The emergence of the term “psychophysiological disorders” (PPD) and a change of the descriptor for some gastroenterological conditions from functional disorders…
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What Happened to You?
What Happened to You? An emerging model challenging the “what’s wrong with you” paradigm. SPSW is delighted to present this new workshop with Dr Bill Saunders. Psychiatry is based on the diagnosis and treatment model. In this new perspective there is no diagnosis; only understanding. This paradigm, known as the trauma informed approach, is steadily replacing the hegemony of psychiatry and opens up the possibility of cheaper, more effective and more accessible services. Want to know more? Then come to…
Find out more »Specialist Family Safety Work
Specialist Family Safety Work in the Context of Men’s Family Violence Service Delivery SPSW is delighted to present this training workshop, Specialist Family Safety Work in the Context of Men’s Family Violence Service Delivery, presented by Tori Cooke, a senior social worker known throughout WA and Australia in the family violence sector. Family Safety Work is usually understood to be a specific service delivery to victim survivors of family violence in the context of men’s behaviour change and/or case management…
Find out more »Thought Field Therapy-Tapping
Thought Field Therapy-Tapping (TFT) An Introduction to TFT-tapping and its application to trauma informed care. SPSW is pleased to present this workshop by Christopher Semmens. Chris has been in private practice for 35 years and he first trained with the originator of TFT-tapping, clinical psychologist Dr Roger Callahan, in 1998. Chris attended trainings with Dr Callahan on four more occasions and over the past 23 years he…
Find out more »Social Anxiety Disorder
SPSW is delighted to present this new workshop about Social Anxiety Disorder by Prof Peter McEvoy, a Senior Clinical Psychologist at the Centre for Clinical Interventions and a teaching and research Professor in the School of Psychology at Curtin University. He has experience running treatment groups, leading research projects and is a published author in the field of anxiety. Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most common mental disorders, and it can have severely detrimental impacts on an individual’s…
Find out more »Dangerous Liasons Friend or Friendly?
SPSW is delighted to present this new workshop about Dangerous Liaisons, Friend or Friendly? Establishing Appropriate Boundaries and Relationships with Clients to Ensure Effective Outcomes presented by Dr Barbara Meddin. In this workshop Dr Meddin will look at what is, and what should be, the nature of the relationship between a worker and their clients in terms of appropriate boundaries. The relationship dilemmas a worker faces in working with clients will be examined. By the end of the workshop, participants will be…
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Eating Disorders
SPSW is delighted to present this new workshop EATING DISORDERS A Complex and Sophisticated Human Affliction by Dr Marc Joffe, a Clinical Psychologist with 25 years of local and international experience. Marc has held a number of academic, consulting and clinical roles in the public and private sectors. Specifically, this workshop will attend to at least the following: • Formulating this complex condition in thoughtful ways; • Consider the role of attachment in eating disorder aetiology and treatment; • The role of trauma…
Find out more »What Makes us Tick?
WHAT MAKES US TICK? Why are we, and our clients, the way we are? SPSW is delighted to present this new workshop with Dr Bill Saunders. Dr Saunders is an experienced Clinical Psychologist who has been an academic and clinician specialising in addiction studies, plus head of psychotherapy and director of a private psychiatric facility that managed ‘co-occurring’ drug and mental health problems. In this workshop 'what makes us tick' and 'why we are as we are' will be explored.…
Find out more »How to Have Difficult Conversations
SPSW is delighted to present this new workshop with Violet Dhu who has over 25 years of Social Work practice experience. She has assisted many organisations and teams to develop confident communication skills and can engage people, putting them at ease to learn to increase their selfawareness and optimise their communication with others. Violet challenges leaders to take ownership to deal with the pointy end of communication in the workplace in a safe and respectful way. Difficult conversations are a…
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