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The challenges of working with complex trauma.

In this episode of our Pracademics Podcast, I am interviewing Dr Catherine Hynes - Clinical Psychologist and PhD in Neuroscience. We talk about why people get stuck in the stabilisation phase and what challenges we face as therapists in our work with trauma. To top that off, Catherine explains how to deal with them.Join our Pracademics podcast to listen to Dr Hynes and find out more about the above-mentioned topics.
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In this episode Dr Catherine Hynes discusses when your client is ready to process their trauma. She tells us when we can actually start the trauma processing and the importance of being able to emotionally regulate following triggers.

The explosion of acronyms for therapy makes me feel overwhelmed. In this episode, I’m speaking about the flaws of alphabet therapies and how to overcome them. I’m also talk about how this relates to the model of structural dissociation that we have been exploring with Dr Catherine Hynes this season.
The good news is, alphabet therapies can be very effective for clients with complex trauma - but you need know how best to utilise them.

In this episode we translate the Teicher and Samson (2016) Annual Review of the neurobiological impacts of trauma. We translate the findings of the review and discuss what it may mean when working with children, young people and adults impacted by trauma.

The ACEs study was great for reframing childhood maltreatment as a public health issue, but it was not designed for individual assessment. Listen as we unpack the dangers of applying ACEs to your school or with individual children and young people in your day to day practice.

In this episode, we share a story about improving the educational outcomes for young people in out of home care. Inspired by the recent Perspectives Paper by Social Ventures Australia, we discuss the attitude and strategies that we used to help a sibling group get their education back on track, with some really great outcomes.

You can get a copy of the perspectives paper here:

https://www.socialventures.com.au/assets/SVA_Perspective_Education_children_OOHC_webres.pdf