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Hopeful Loss: Ambiguous Losses of Mental Ill Health
Hopeful Voyager: Navigating Your Way through the Ambiguous Losses of Mental Ill Health SPSW is delighted to present this workshop by Dr Kanthi Perera, a Social Worker in the mental health sector. Kanthi has been the recipient of a number of awards – especially a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship in 2005 to study innovative programs that address loss and grief in the context of mental illness. The focus of which was to minimise the distress and trauma experienced by…
Find out more »UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING DEPENDENCE
Understanding and Managing Dependence: Is Addiction a Normal Human Behaviour? SPSW is delighted to present this new workshop with Dr Bill Saunders, a Clinical Psychologist in almost retirement. In previous lives he has been an academic specialising in addiction studies, a clinician running alcohol and other drug services plus a head of psychotherapy and director of a private psychiatric facility that managed ‘co-occurring’ drug and mental health problems. As anyone who has ever attended one of Bill’s workshops, know they are always…
Find out more »Webinar Family Violence Risk Assessment
Family Violence Risk Assessment: Identifying Perpetrator Patterns of Coercive Control - Webinar SPSW is delighted to present this two-hour webinar by Tori Cooke, a senior social worker known throughout WA and Australia in respect to working in the area of men’s behaviour change. The training will focus on o Exploring common definitions of coercive control o Using Biderman’s Chart of Coercion as a helpful resource o Unpacking common smokescreens that act as barriers to change. By the end of the…
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Stretching Your Work Practice, Maximizing Your Potential, Dealing with Your Professional Struggles
Stretching Your Work Practice, Maximizing Your Potential, Dealing with Your Professional Struggles SPSW is delighted to present this new workshop with Adam Peaty and Gail Green, both experienced social workers who have had careers in government, not-for-profits, and private practice. They will give you both some theoretical background and hands-on opportunities to review your career and to answer questions such as: Are you satisfied with how well you are working? Would you like to expand/enhance how you work? Are you…
Find out more »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…
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