Understanding Families and Healing Relationships

This workshop will give you an understanding of families and what leads to conflict.  Participants will learn how to help restore broken relationships . We will apply knowledge from attachment theory and family system theory to reframe the way we think about family conflict. (PS: Family Systems Theory has been influential in its application to all other therapeutic approaches.) Participants will have the opportunity to share their experiences with their past or present cases; and we will learn how to apply family systems concepts to them in order to draw out important skills.

​This workshop comprises of 2 parts:

Part 1 helps participants understand families and the potential causes of family conflicts. We will also introduce family systems theory and the importance to perceive systemically. Key principles guiding the approach and intervention process and a model of therapeutic change is also covered.
 
In Part 2, participants will learn how to apply family system theory to conceptualise their client’s issues.  We will also focus on interventions skills to heal relationships.​

Working with Children and Adolescents Impacted by Divorce & Separation

This workshop is designed for Helping Professionals regardless whether they have psychological knowledge and background or not. Underlying the design of this course is a key premise: The affected child still lives within a community. Any meaningful help rendered must consider his interaction with his environment. This will include parents and other professionals that may be involved such as child protection officer, court and lawyers.

In Part 1 of this workshop, you will learn the dynamics of divorce including the potential complexities surrounding it. It discusses possible impacts of a divorce on children/adolescents as well as the parents and extended family. The short- and long-term effects including inter-generational trauma are explained. Risk and protective factors in children and adolescents are discussed.
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Working with families affected by divorce has its challenges. Part 2 highlights challenges that you, as the Helping Professional, may face. Importantly, participants will be taught practical tools how to prevent yourself from being triangulated in the parents’ acrimony. Part 2 will also equip participants with practical intervention skills to help the affected child/adolescent. You will also learn how to engage the parents meaningfully with the child in focus. Finally, you learn how to collaborate with other stakeholders in order to alleviate the impact on the child.