Courses
Oakdale runs courses, workshops and groups for practitioners through the year. All workshop presenters are experts in their particular field.
DR. MARGOT SUNDERLAND
A world renowned expert in the field of attachment and parenting, Dr. Margot Sunderland will deliver an exciting audio visual presentation entitled …
The Psychology and Neuroscience of Couple and Family Relationships
From Relational Stress and Relational Poverty to Relational Health
On Saturday 10th July 2010 at 10.00am – 17.00pm
Dr. Sunderland is Director of Education and Training at The Centre for Child Mental Health in London, Integrative Child Psychotherapist, Academic Psychologist, Parenting and Childcare Expert with over 20 years experience of working with children and parents. She is the author of 20 books on child mental health translated into 17 languages, including the BMA award winning book, The Science of Parenting (what every parent should know).
This workshop is open to counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, educational psychologists, teachers, health care workers, foster carers, family workers, primary and mental health care teams.
This one day presentation will explore cutting edge research (psychology and neuroscience) vital for informing and enriching our clinical work with couples and families. Dr Sunderland will focus on the biochemical profile of negative relational patterns. She will also pay particular attention to misconnections, failed connections, dead connections and relational poverty as presented in the therapy room. Equally she will consider the science of relational stress and key interventions to make that vital shift into relational health.
Areas covered include:
- How people change people for better or worse (brains as well as minds)
- The brain biochemistry underpinning positive and negative relationship patterns
- The science of attachment patterns in couple and family relationships “The body keeps the score” (Van der Kolk)
- Working effectively with physiological arousal/emotional dysregulation in couples and families
- From repetitive primitive reptilian responses, to optimal executive frontal lobe functions in couples and families
- The psychology and brain science of unprocessed trauma and loss in couples and families
- Kindness and cruelty in couples and families (brain activation and biochemical basis)
- Fear based systems: Working effectively with invasion and abandonment issues in relationships, informed by the brain science
- Interventions to enable couples and families to move from relational stress and relational poverty to relational health