The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Joint Yorkshire and North West Branches

FULL-DAY CONFERENCE FOCUSING ON

TRAUMA FOCUSED THERAPIES

FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2011
MANCHESTER CONFERENCE CENTRE, WESTON BUILDING, SACKVILLE STREET, MANCHESTER M1 3BB
ACAMH North West Branch Annual General Meeting for Association Members to be hosted before lunch

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Conference Overview
Increasingly, mental health teams are seeing children and families who present with simple and complex PTSD, symptoms of dissociation
and emerging personality disorders, along with disorders resistant to common modalities of therapy such as unmodified CBT and narrative
approaches.
The aim of this conference is to provide a comprehensive overview of the most recent research on different ways traumata are processed by
the brain and how this neurological information can inform each mental health professional on the options for treatment. This has come
increasingly to the fore since the NICE guidelines were published on PTSD and more treatment options have become available.
The morning sessions will focus on the theoretical approaches to treatment, including the dangers of rushing to process traumatic memories
before affective regulation has been achieved. This will be complemented by an afternoon, consisting of a series of practical workshops
outlining the following areas:
• Differences between types 1 and 2 of traumatic stress
• Case examples, illustrating use of the latest neurobiologically based treatments. Cases will include children, adolescents and adults
with symptoms of traumatic stress disorders.
• Impact of trauma in pregnancy and the implications for attachment within the parent-child relationship.
About the Speakers
An expert panel of authoritative presenters will lead this balanced programme:
Dr Andrew Harkin: Having trained in adult psychiatry, Andrew moved to Boulder Colorado to study sensorimotor psychotherapy, an approach
developed by Pat Ogden in 2000. Living and practising in The West of Ireland, he travels widely throughout Europe
teaching sensorimotor psychotherapy.
Dr Sheena Pollet A medical psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, Sheena has adapted a brief psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy
model to work with complex parent-infant trauma presenting as severe mental illness in the parent.
Dr Art O’Malley A child and adolescent psychiatrist who became an EMDR consultant in 2008, Art has also received Level 1 training in
sensorimotor psychotherapy. His main interest is developing neurobiologically informed treatments for complex
traumatic stress symptomatology.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
09.30 Registration and Coffee
10.00 Welcome address: Dr Lisa MacDonald, ACAMH Yorkshire Branch Secretary
10.10 Update on how the Body and Brain React to Trauma and the Implications for Therapeutic Processing: Dr Art O’Malley
11.30 Morning Coffee Break and registration for the Afternoon Workshops
12.00 Introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Dr Andrew Harkin
13.00 Lunch Break and North West Branch AGM
14.00 PARALLEL AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS
Workshop A: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Dr Andrew Harkin
Workshop B: Trauma Therapy: A Dynamic New Model - Bilateral Affective Reprocessing Therapy (BART): Dr Art O’Malley
Workshop C: Attachment Based Psychotherapy: Dr Sheena Pollet
15.55 Afternoon Tea Break
16.15 Closing plenary – Dr Lisa MacDonald, ACAMH Yorkshire Branch Secretary
16.30 Conference Conclusion and Close
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