Centre for Child Mental Health presents: Two -day training with Dr Dan Hughes Developing therapeutic stories with children and teenagers that reduce their shame and fear

Through his model of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Dan will demonstrate how to enable children and teenagers to feel safe enough to tell the story of their traumatic past. He will explore how to help them to then develop a coherent narrative for what happened to them and grieve what needs to be grieved, so they are no longer haunted by fear and shame.

Benefits from attending:

• Gain a wealth of tools and techniques to support you to respond therapeutically when a child/teenager tells you a very important story about their life.
• Learn new ways to help children/ teenagers to think about their lives.
• Watch Dan demonstrate how to talk with children/teenagers using an affective-reflective dialogue.
• develop healthy patterns of relating, becoming open to each other’s inner lives.
• Watch Dan demonstrate therapeutic conversations based on his model of PACE, through moving case material of and live role play.