Venue
Virgin Oil Co./Club
Kaivopiha
Mannerheimintie 5
00100 Helsinki
www.virginoil.fi
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Speaker
Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland’s Institute for Child Study. He has achieved Diplomate Status in Child Psychology and Forensic Psychology from the American Board of Psychological Specialties, and is certified by the Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Institute as a Certified Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) therapist, consultant, and trainer. Dr. Becker-Weidman has been treating the families of adoptive and foster children for over two decades. He provides consultation, training, and workshops to various governments, school districts, residential treatment centers, and professionals throughout the US and internationally (Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Singapore, & Slovakia). His work has focused on the evaluation and treatment of children and their families, complex trauma, disorders of attachment, and Alcohol Related Neurological Dysfunction.
www.center4familydevelop.com www.attachment-focusedtreatmentinstitute.com
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Conference & Training > Becker-Weidman: Evaluating and Treating Complex Trauma
28-29 Jan 2013: Evaluating and Treating Complex Trauma
Arthur Becker-Weidman, USA
The Conference and Introductory Training focus on traumatic attachment disorders and their evidence-based treatment. Emphasis is on therapeutic parenting/care to facilitate a healthy and secure attachment and how Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy®, DDP®, as an empirically validated treatment, and its principles can be effectively used in different settings to help create capacity for attachment, improve the ability for healthy emotional life and relationships – the basic things one needs for a good life. The conference & training will also give attendees the overall knowledge on complex relational trauma and impairments on development caused by it.
Target group Professionals working with traumatised children and young people in different contexts and who are in the position to care, assess or provide treatment/therapies for them, including foster carers/parents, psychologists, child psychiatrists, therapists and social workers in foster and residential care, family guidance clinics, child protection and welfare, psychiatric units, and special schools. Also teachers of educational institutions for social and health care, and teachers and researchers of universities are in an important position to disseminate new ways to help our most vulnerable clients. Training is credited in the therapist training programs of DDP Institute and Attachment-Focused Treatment Institute.
Program
Mon 28.1.2013 | Evaluating and treating complex trauma
| 8.30–9.15 | Registration and coffee |
| 9.15–9.45 | Opening Pirjo Tuovila, Specialist in developmental and educational psychology |
| 9.45–10.45 | Brief Primer on Attachment Theory Complex trauma: implications for development Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman |
| 10.45–11.00 | Break |
| 11.00–12.00 | Assessing Complex Trauma: an overview |
| 12.00–13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00–14.30 | Assessing Child |
| 14.30–15.00 | Break |
| 15.00–16.30 | Assessing Parent Capacity |
Tue 29 Jan 2013 | Attachment-Focused Treatment
| 8.30–9.30 | Basic principles of Attachment-Focused Treatment Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman |
| 9.30–10.00 | Break |
| 10.00–11.15 | Attachment-Facilitating parenting |
| 11.15–12.15 | Lunch |
| 12.15–13.30 | Components of Attachment-Focused Treatment |
| 13.30–14.00 | Coffee |
| 14.00–15.15 | Phases of Attachment-Focused Treatment |
| 15.15–15.30 | Closing |
Program includes authentic video recordings.
Excellent simultaneous interpreting English-Finnish-English.