Dan Hughes: Working with Shame & Rage in Children & Young People
Full Course Title
Assisting Children and Young People who are experiencing Shame and Rage in response to their Traumatic History.
Summary of Training
Dan Hughes is the expert practitioner when it comes to healing troubled and challenged children and young people. He is held in huge esteem the world over for his transformational work with kids who have experienced the full spectrum of trauma, abuse and neglect. This 5-hour workshop is therefore a hugely valuable opportunity to spend time learning directly from Dan, in the form of taught elements, case studies, personal testimony, pre-recorded demonstrations and live role play.
This day is open to anyone working with and / or supporting children & young people, including parents and carers, and there will be opportunities to ask questions and get feedback on children you may be personally supporting right now.
Training Outline
Children, adolescents and young people who have experienced trauma, abuse and neglect can commonly present with shame and rage in times of challenge and distress.
They often have great difficulty accepting the support and care of their caregivers, teachers and other caring practitioners because of their lack of trust in relationships and their struggles in being able to lean on or rely on others, due to their traumatic history.
The shame and rage they hold can activate challenging behaviours and responses, which can then go on to create blocks in the care that those supporting them want to offer.
This cycle can not only affect their abilities to form loving reciprocal supportive relationships but can also make it harder for others to see the best in them and continue to provide the care that they need.
In this workshop, Dan will outline ways of working, communicating and interacting with these children and young people to help them acknowledge and understand their past, to realise that what has happened to them is not their fault nor was it deserved nor acceptable and to reach a place of safety within themselves and their relationships to help bring about long lasting transformation and positive change.
Dan will explain how we need to keep in mind that the child’s response to us may be primarily determined by their expectations based on past abusive experiences.
We therefore need to relate in ways that generate safety and an openness to new learning.
We need to perceive and respond to the child’s inner life rather than to the behaviours that are problems and symptoms secondary to trauma.
We need to discover who the child was before being traumatized, who the child is underneath the traumatic symptoms.
These discoveries will help us to become engaged safely with the child and to invite them into relational experiences that generate new expectations of nurture, comfort, and joy.
Ways of engaging and interacting with these children will be presented, with examples, role plays, and specific ideas all included. Dan has pre-recorded a video demonstration with the Kokoro team which will be made available for each attendee to have and keep after the workshop for personal reference, along with the slide presentation.
About Dan Hughes
Dan Hughes is a world-leading practitioner in healing troubled children. He is held in the highest esteem globally for his profoundly transformative therapeutic work with the most traumatised children and young people. Dan’s empathic way – encompassing his own PACE guidelines which he developed early on in his career – of relating to children and young people can bring about major life enhancing changes often in just a few sessions. He is an inspirational trainer and his workshops on PACE have impacted the lives and careers of thousands of parents and care givers as well as professionals and students.
Dan is highly respectful of family work and parent-child work and of healing a fraught or ruptured relationship between adult and child. He works as a Clinical Psychologist in South Portland, Maine, USA, where he specialises in working with children who have suffered abuse and neglect. He is a Consultant to Family Services programmes and also to therapists, case managers and parents struggling with the treatment of children who are locked in a life of anger, rage, hate or cruelty.
Dan founded and developed Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), the treatment of children who have experienced abuse and neglect and demonstrate ongoing problems related to attachment and trauma. This treatment occurs in a family setting and the treatment model has expanded to become a general model of family treatment. He has conducted seminars, workshops, and spoken at conferences throughout the US, Europe, Canada, and Australia for the past 25 years. He is also engaged in extensive training and supervision in the certification of therapists in his treatment model, along with ongoing consultation to various agencies and professionals. He is president of DDPI – a training Institute which is responsible for the certification of professionals in DDP. Information about DDPI can be found on ddpnetwork.org.
His many books and articles include: Healing Relational Trauma with Attachment-Focused Interventions, The Neurobiology of Attachment-Focused Therapy: Enhancing Connection and Trust in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents (with Jon Baylin), Brain-based Parenting: The neuroscience of caregiving for healthy attachment (with Jon Baylin), Creating Loving Attachments (with Kim Golding), Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children. Dan’s website is www.danielhughes.org
Ethical Conduct
It is a requirement that all participants adhere to ethical conduct in the context of events including:
- Respect for our team, trainers and other attendees
- Adherence to policies and procedures
- Maintaining confidentiality and privacy
- Sensitivity to complex issues being discussed
Anyone in breach of these threshold requirements may be removed from an event and could be unable to attend further events in the future. This is to safeguard the staff and participants as well as to enable quality assurance for the safety and wellbeing of all attendees.
In booking an event these criteria are agreed to in principle and committed to in practice.
Self-Care Notice
Therapeutic trainings can work with complex and emotive topics that may be deeply personal for some delegates, depending on their lived experience. There will be breaks included on the day and one to one support will be available if needed, but please do reflect on whether you feel able to attend. Your safety and wellbeing is of paramount importance.
Recordings
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Uncredited Use or Replication of Content Shared
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