The hidden hurt: Treating internalised shame in children and adolescents
Tracks
Track 6
| Friday, May 15, 2020 |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM |
Presenter(s)
Dr Rachel Bushing
Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Pop Psychology
The hidden hurt: Treating internalised shame in children and adolescents
10:30 AM - 5:00 PMAssumed knowledge of attendee
Beginner (casual familiarity with topic area e.g., treated one case)
Level of learning
Introductory
Outline
How many child and adolescent clients slip through the cracks of treatment services, because we miss what they are trying to communicate about their distress? Child psychology is a rich and diverse field of clinical practice, where clinicians are asked to integrate the fields of psychiatric medicine, child development, dyadic attachment styles, parenting skill training, and family systems into an integrative and succinct model of care and evidence-based intervention. It is well known that abuse and neglect are significant pre-cursors to the expression of clinical mental health diagnoses in childhood. It is less well understood how more subtle forms of emotional abuse and neglect, and the sense of internalised shame they can produce in children, can pose significant barriers to our standard cognitive-behavioural treatments.
The aim of this workshop is to offer a clinical standpoint on how the research on Shame can underpin mental ill-health for child and adolescent clients presenting to services. Participants will gain clinical skills that include enhanced assessment, engagement, clinical formulation, and treatment skills, exploring the emerging and “third wave” clinical models which better serve children in improving their mental health and emotional wellbeing. It is intended that the workshop will allow practitioners to broaden their scope of practice by introducing some practical ideas for addressing Shame in clinical practice, and to practice and rehearse these skills to implement immediately.
The aim of this workshop is to offer a clinical standpoint on how the research on Shame can underpin mental ill-health for child and adolescent clients presenting to services. Participants will gain clinical skills that include enhanced assessment, engagement, clinical formulation, and treatment skills, exploring the emerging and “third wave” clinical models which better serve children in improving their mental health and emotional wellbeing. It is intended that the workshop will allow practitioners to broaden their scope of practice by introducing some practical ideas for addressing Shame in clinical practice, and to practice and rehearse these skills to implement immediately.
Learning outcomes
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
• Develop a theoretical understanding of Shame, as an emotion, and how it relates to other primary emotions, within a developmental context.
• Understand the ways in which Shame can go undetected and lead to drop out and poor clinical outcomes.
• Re-examine assessment practices to increase clinical engagement.
• Practice enhanced rapport building and meaningful engagement techniques.
• Develop clinical formulations which take Shame into account (within the broader mental health frame).
• Practice clinical skills in 3 key intervention areas (parenting, emotional literacy, self-compassion)
• Develop a theoretical understanding of Shame, as an emotion, and how it relates to other primary emotions, within a developmental context.
• Understand the ways in which Shame can go undetected and lead to drop out and poor clinical outcomes.
• Re-examine assessment practices to increase clinical engagement.
• Practice enhanced rapport building and meaningful engagement techniques.
• Develop clinical formulations which take Shame into account (within the broader mental health frame).
• Practice clinical skills in 3 key intervention areas (parenting, emotional literacy, self-compassion)
Biography
Dr Rachel Bushing is a Clinical Psychologist with 17 years of practice with children and families. She is passionate about setting children out with the very best start in life. Within the day to day practice as a child psychologist, she has come to believe that nurturing parents’ journeys and reaching out to the family as a whole creates the kind magic that allows kids to flourish and overcome their emotional difficulties. She is an advocate for good quality peer education and clinical supervision, through the power it contains for continually reflecting, growing, and learning just as we ask of our clients. She runs a busy little private practice in Brisbane called POP! Psychology, which has the aim of bringing the fun into therapy, she co-hosts the parenting podcast Pop The Kettle On, and most importantly, she takes pride in being imperfect.
Dr Alison Bocquée
The hidden hurt: Treating internalised shame in children and adolescents
10:30 AM - 5:00 PMBiography
Alison is a clinical psychologist with over 18 years experience working across the lifespan, but with a passion in supporting young people and their families to thrive and grow. Alison enjoys working creatively within the therapy space, and adopts an authentic, compassionate and playful approach. She values continuous learning and growth in both her clients and herself, and also enjoys providing in supervision, and consultancy.
