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DAN HUGHES
COURSES
Dr. Dan Hughes is a psychologist whose developmental attachment therapy has been
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TRAUMA AND THE ROAD
TO RECOVERY
5 Days Clinical Training in the Treatment of Children
with Trauma
and Attachment Difficulties
Dr. Dan Hughes is a psychologist whose developmental attachment
therapy has been much acclaimed by parents and professionals, both in this country and the USA. This course is a unique opportunity for qualified
practitioners who work with children that have been traumatised, have
attachment difficulties and are living in adoptive or foster families, to
develop what we regard as baseline skills for people working in this field.
The course provides an introduction to Integrative Dyadic Psychotherapy. This is what Dan Hughes says about his work: -
“ Over the past twelve years I have actively worked to develop a model of treatment and parenting for children with problems secondary to abuse, neglect, and multiple placements. This model has evolved over those years, incorporating both my experiences in providing such treatment and in teaching other therapists as well as my ongoing readings from attachment and trauma studies in both academic and clinical literature. The purpose of this paper is to clearly state the nature
of this treatment and parenting model and to differentiate it from other
models. In addition, the books were published in 1997 and 1998 and the
model has continued to evolve over the past 6-7 years.
I have chosen to call this model of treatment Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy because it is based on the premise that the development of children and youth is dependent upon and highly influenced by the nature of the parent-child relationship. Such a relationship, especially with regard to the child's attachment security and
emotional development, requires ongoing, dyadic (reciprocal) experiences between parent and child. Such experiences are affectively and cognitively matched to the developmental, age-appropriate needs of the child. The parent is attuned to the child's subjective
experience, makes sense of those experiences, and communicates them
back to the child. This is done nonverbally as well as verbally. It is done with playfulness, acceptance, curiosity, and empathy. These interactions are contingent, i.e., when the parent initiates an interaction, the child's response determines the parent's subsequent action based on the feedback of the child's subjective experience of the first action. In that way, the parent constantly finetunes his/her interactions to best fit the
needs of the child. The primary context in which such dyadic interchanges occur is one of real and felt safety. Without such actual and perceived safety, the child's neurological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral functioning is compromised.
When a child's early attachment history consists of abuse, neglect, and/or multiple placements, s/he has failed to experience the dyadic interactions that are necessary for normal development and s/he often has a reduced readiness and ability to participate in such experiences.
Many children, when placed in a foster or adoptive home that provides
appropriate parenting, are able to learn, day by day, how to engage in and benefit from the dyadic experiences provided by the new parent. Other children, having been much more traumatized
and compromised in those aspects of their development that require these dyadic
experiences, have much greater difficulty responding to their new parents. For these children, specialized parenting and treatment is often required.
For such treatment and parenting to be effective I strongly believe that they must be based on parenting principles that facilitate security of attachments and which incorporate an attitude based on playfulness, acceptance, curiosity, and empathy. The foundationof these interventions -- both in home and in treatment -- must incorporate the above principles and never involve coercion, threat, intimidation, and the use of power to force submission.”
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COURSE FEES |
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NEXT AVAILABLE DAN HUGHES DATES: -
LEVEL 1
26-30 January 2009
5-9 October 2009
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£950 + VAT
£950 + VAT
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LEVEL 2
18-21 May 2009
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£800 + VAT
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LEVEL 3
22-23 May 2009
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£400 + VAT
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