Events and Seminars

Event	:	Home - Conductors: Alan Corbett and Christine Thornton
Venue	:	The Bond Company 180-182 Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5SE
Date	:	04/02/2012
Duration	:	10.30am - 1.30pm
Delegates	:	30
Extra Info	:	From its earliest beginnings, icap has worked with patients for whom the notion of home is rarely uncomplicated. For some home is a starting point that has been departed and that continues to be mourned. For others it is a place infused with deprivation, neglect and abuse. For many it is a complex mix of both. This seminar builds on our work together as icap therapists, and our discussions begun at the AGM, and will explore the various ways in which individual and group psychotherapy can create a kind of home in which the foundations of an internal state of refuge and safety can begin to be built. We will consider the challenges of working with those patients for whom trauma has become the most familiar home of all, and whose therapeutic process may, as a result, challenge contemporary notions of "treatability". This event will be an opportunity to come together to learn from each other and enrich our clinical work. As clinical directors, we are keen to learn from your experience as icap therapists over the years; in order to write up and disseminate the findings of this seminar, some of the clinical discussions will be tape recorded and transcribed for future use and as a basis for icap's ongoing work and research. If you would object to this, please let us know so that we can arrange where possible for you to be in a non-recorded group. Alan Corbett is a Clinical Director of icap, and a Psychotherapist who has worked for many years with survivors and perpetrators of sexual trauma. He was previously Director of Respond, the UK's foremost clinic for intellectually disabled survivors and perpetrators of sexual crime, and National Clinical Director of the CARI (Children at Risk in Ireland) Foundation. He is a Trustee with the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability and the International Association of Forensic Psychotherapy. He currently works in private practice in Dublin and London, is a Consultant Psychotherapist with the Clinical for Dissociative Studies and a Psychotherapist with the School of Life, and consults and lectures to a number of organisations working in the field of psychotherapy, training, sexual trauma and intellectual disability. Christine Thornton is a Clinical Director of icap, and an experienced group analyst, supervisor and organisational consultant, in private practice for twenty years. In the NHS she worked for several years with survivors of childhood sexual abuse and patients with PTSD, and in her organisational work with domestic violence, drug/ alcohol abuse, crime, and poverty. Christine's most recent book is Group and team coaching [Routledge 2010]. Most recently she has specialised in supervision and in supporting other professionals, both therapists and consultants, through professional development groups. As a consultant Christine has specialised in promoting best practice through sharing learning and experience in settings as various as North London and post-war former Yugoslavia. icap (Immigrant Counselling and Psychotherapy) provides culturally-sensitive psychotherapy to members of the Irish community in Britain and specialises in treating the unusually high prevalence of mental illness found in the Irish community, both as a consequence of enforced migration and as a result of experiences of institutional abuse. * If you would like to attend or for further information, please call Lina Acharya te. 0121 666 7707 or write to icap, 72 Digbeth, Birmingham B5 6DH or email Lina@icap.org.uk
Organised By	:	icap
Web Link	:	http://www.icap.org.uk/therapist_training_event/therapist-training-in-the-west-midlands/