Date: Friday, October 21, 2016 - 9:00am to 4:45pm
Instructor: Hugo A. Kamya, PhD, MSW
Instructor: Hugo A. Kamya, PhD, MSW
Cost: Individual registration is $140.00, $130 early registration for individuals, $125 groups of two or more, $115 early registration for groups. Early registration ends on September 9, 2016. You must pay together by check in the same envelope or with the same credit card or Paypal account to qualify for group registration.
Location: 186 Alewife Brook Parkway, Cambridge, MA. Conference room at the Public Conversations Project
Location: 186 Alewife Brook Parkway, Cambridge, MA. Conference room at the Public Conversations Project
Trauma has debilitating effects in the human life cycle. “Human encounters with violence, abuse, atrocity, and catastrophe are widespread, and the psychological consequences of such exposure are often debilitating in the extreme” (Harvey et. al., 2012). At the core of such encounters is a strong sense of disruption and loss at various levels including physical, emotional, spiritual and psychic integrity. This presentation will seek to underscore loss across attachments and the need to engage story as well as the use of a cross cultural bereavement lens. Issues of self care will be addressed as sine-qua-non, what is essential, in trauma treatment work.
The importance of engaging in trauma-informed work is central to narrative approaches. Dr. Kamya will provide an overview of trauma. He will seek to contextualize trauma as pervasive force in everyday life. Definitional issues will be addressed as well as models for understanding trauma. Then he will present trauma informed work as key to assessment using the models discussed with particular focus to Narrative Practice.
The importance for trauma practitioners to listen to the inner heart’s desires of their clients will be enumerated. Dr. Kamya will provide participants with a cross cultural lens in understanding and treating trauma especially with the culturally different. He will propose the need to attend to trauma as loss and bereavement across the life cycle. He will also teach how to engage the complexity of story in the narrative paradigm. He will discuss ways that effective practitioners must see self-care must as a sine-qua-non ingredient that sustains the process of treatment. Participants will learn skills toward self-care.
The importance of engaging in trauma-informed work is central to narrative approaches. Dr. Kamya will provide an overview of trauma. He will seek to contextualize trauma as pervasive force in everyday life. Definitional issues will be addressed as well as models for understanding trauma. Then he will present trauma informed work as key to assessment using the models discussed with particular focus to Narrative Practice.
The importance for trauma practitioners to listen to the inner heart’s desires of their clients will be enumerated. Dr. Kamya will provide participants with a cross cultural lens in understanding and treating trauma especially with the culturally different. He will propose the need to attend to trauma as loss and bereavement across the life cycle. He will also teach how to engage the complexity of story in the narrative paradigm. He will discuss ways that effective practitioners must see self-care must as a sine-qua-non ingredient that sustains the process of treatment. Participants will learn skills toward self-care.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will gain an understanding of trauma in the human life cycle using narrative practices.
Participants will identify a few key dimensions of attachment, disruption and the cultural bereavement lens.
Participants will identify several key strategies for addressing trauma in the life cycle, as well as to develop ways of listening to, thinking about and working with trauma using a trauma informed narrative lens.
Participants will identify a few key dimensions of attachment, disruption and the cultural bereavement lens.
Participants will identify several key strategies for addressing trauma in the life cycle, as well as to develop ways of listening to, thinking about and working with trauma using a trauma informed narrative lens.
Hugo A. Kamya, PhD, MSW, is Professor of Practice at Simmons College School of Social Work. Dr. Kamya’s work has focused on immigrant populations and international efforts to assess social service needs of people affected by HIV/AIDS. His research interests include immigration, trauma, multi-cultural/ethnic issues, spirituality, HIV/AIDS and violence prevention. As a clinician at the Cambridge Mental Health Association, he co-founded and ran the first group for children living in families with HIV/AIDS. Over the last few years, Dr. Kamya has facilitated bilateral cultural and educational exchanges between Uganda and the United States to study HIV/AIDS in Uganda. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Social and Economic Justice Award by the American Family Therapy Academy for his work with unaccompanied minors from the Sudan. Dr. Kamya’s work internationally has focused on human rights and developing effective international partnerships. He has just returned from a sabbatical at the University of Pretoria in Johannesburg. In 2014, he was inducted in the Fulbright Roster Program for his work on trauma, refugees and immigrants. Dr. Kamya maintains a vibrant practice working with trauma in communities, families, couples and individuals. Dr. Kamya weaves narrative practices in trauma informed work.
Registration Instructions:
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Group registrants must register together in one envelope with all payments enclosed or online with one credit card or Paypal payment.
Your space is not secured for an event until we receive payment.
Registration form (by mail)
Your space is not secured for an event until we receive payment.
Registration form (by mail)
Workshop CEs:
Participants MUST attend 100% of the program to earn the 6 CEs approved for this program. CE certificates will be given at the end of the event after you are fully paid and have completed the evaluation form. Details for your approved professions here: 6 CEs have been approved for licensed Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Psychologist, Licensed Mental Health Counselors and Nurses by Commonwealth Educational Seminars. Licensed Mental Health Counselor's can earn 6 CEs as Therapy Training Boston has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6707. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Therapy Training Boston is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Workshop policies:
Cancellations and Refunds: Courses may be cancelled by Therapy Training Boston if minimum enrollment requirements are not met. In this case, full fees will be refunded or applied to future programs. Otherwise, no refunds are provided for registrants.
Special Accommodations: Please submit a written statement at least 30 days prior to the program to see if we can meet your needs.
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Special Accommodations: Please submit a written statement at least 30 days prior to the program to see if we can meet your needs.
All TTB policies here.
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