Working with unipolar depression from an attachment and trauma informed perspective, this training is for those supporting both adults and children who are displaying unresolved attachment injuries or developmental trauma, leading to high levels of attachment frustration and depressive symptoms.
Dr Ruth Lawson-McConnell presents a reconceptualisation of Dollard and Millar’s (1945) Frustration-Aggression hypothesis for unipolar depression integrated with insights from Neufeld’s attachment-based developmental model, as well as recent trauma research, to help those working with both adults and children who struggle with depressive symptoms.
Neufeld’s attachment-based developmental model will be presented offering three intervention points for working with clients who struggle with depression. These interventions include mapping the source of frustration, registering futility, the process of adaption and the integration of mixed emotions in the prefrontal cortex for therapeutic work with clients with unipolar depression.
When: 7 April 2025, 9am – 3.30pm
Where: Online via Zoom
Cost: $320 inc GST. The price stated is per person.
Contact: Faye Johnson – [email protected]
For more information and to register: please visit the website
NOTE – If your organisation is interested in having Ruth present face-face as a private workshop to 15 or more of your team, please contact Faye.
FAQs
This training will cover:
This training examines how our clients may have unresolved attachment injuries, leading to high levels of attachment frustration.
They may struggle with the process of adaption resulting in their frustration being expressed as aggression, whether that be internalised by bullying self-talk, self-injurious behaviour, self-blame, helplessness, or powerlessness, or externalised and directed at others attacking either verbally, physically, by emotional abuse and impotent rage.
In this context we will explore the role of tears futility leading to adaption, and the role of mixed emotions (which involves the integrative function of the pre-frontal cortex) and being at psychological rest for the neo-cortex and executive functioning to come ‘back on-line’ moving the client from a victim stance to an empowered one.
Who Should Attend
Mental health professionals, educators (teachers, teacher aides, RTLB’s, school counsellors), social workers, counsellors, Justice Dept staff (Corrections, Police). Those supporting both adults and children who are displaying attachment issues, or developmental trauma.
About the Presenter, Dr. Ruth Lawson-McConnell
Ruth Lawson-McConnell is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (Canada) and a member of the New Zealand Counselling Association and the NZ Psychological Society with nearly 30 years’ experience. She trained and worked in Scotland and Canada, and has been in New Zealand for the past 14 years. She has an MA (Honours) in Social Anthropology and Psychology (Aberdeen University) and a PhD (Counselling Psychology - Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland).
Ruth specialises in attachment issues both in adults and children. She works with a foster care agency supporting carers looking after children with complex developmental trauma. Ruth also has a private practice where she offers specialist supervision on attachment and trauma with adults, and parent consulting on children’s emotional and behavioural issues. Ruth has specialist training as a neuropsychotherapy practitioner and a trauma specialist working with partners of sex addicts.
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