Engaging Traumatized clients who Avoid Attachment

I just sat through an excellent course by Rob Muller. If you are a professional in mental health it was well worth the experience. If you are an individual who has experienced a traumatic event , or a professional in the field, you may enjoy the following blog and twitter feed:

Http://trauma.blog.yorku.ca

Or at twitter: trauma and attachment report.

Rob Muller describes the attachment system as "a behavioral system oriented toward seeking protection &maintaining proximity to the attachment figure in response to perceived threat or danger.

Someone who is avoidant in their attachment may: deny feelings of vulnerability; deny hurt; deny loss; devalue intimacy; minimize negative experiences; put a positive spin on negative experiences; and will idealize people or experiences.

Read more in Muller's book Trauma and the Avoidant Client.

Teenage Brain program

http://youtu.be/GJkavNtK5uE    
Worth checking out! This was a great program and can be found at The Nature of Things CBC website.
 

Sexualization of girls

Check out this special on Global TV with Ann Marie MacDonald - troubling but worth the watch -
Sext up KIDS exposes how growing up in a hyper-sexualized culture hurts our kids.
http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episode/sext-up-kids.html

Neuroplasticity workshop

Great workshop for professionals in the field: Neuroplasticity and the brain, Nov 1-2 @ the Ontario Science Centre. For details visit kmtlearning.com.

Teen Run Therapy Group

I attended an interesting meeting today about a program facilitated by Cameron Runs of Toronto. It sees youth bridging therapies with running. Perhaps this program will become a reality in Collingwood.

Wait list

Hi Folks,
Just want you to know that i won't be taking new clients again until the Fall of 2012.
However, if you are with one of my EAP companies - I do have spots for you.

Be well,
SHC

The Teenage Brain

http://youtu.be/GJkavNtK5uE

If you missed the featured Teenage Brain episode on the Nature of Things a month or so ago - it is really worth viewing. Check out this link and then google the Nature of Things at CBC and see you if can view the progrm on line.

SHC