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BAPPS Autumn Conference

Online via Zoom

Saturday 9^th October 2021

1.00 p.m to 5.00 p.m Robert T. Muller, PhD

Using the relationship to heal trauma: Rupture, repair, and relational work with clients and supervisees

This practical workshop, led by Dr. Robert T. Muller, a leading expert on trauma therapy, and globally acclaimed author of the psychotherapy bestseller: Trauma & the Avoidant Client – is aimed at building our understanding of the therapeutic relationship in trauma treatment and supervision.

As clinicians, we try to maintain a strong therapeutic relationship, but this can be easier said than done. Trauma clients struggle to trust the therapist. This can be mirrored in the supervisory relationship.

Drawing on attachment theory, relational psychodynamic perspectives, and a wealth of clinical experience, Dr. Muller explains how to work with such hard-to-treat clients, how to find points of entry and ways to make contact. The workshop addresses strategies for navigating the ups and downs of the therapeutic relationship, to help trauma clients regain a sense of trust in others. And, we apply this thinking to the supervisory relationship, especially where trauma-related themes appear in the work.

We explore therapeutic techniques through which the client is encouraged to take interpersonal risks, to mourn losses, and to face vulnerabilities. Specifically:

What are the countertransference themes most common to trauma therapy?
How can subtle conflicts in the therapeutic relationship become useful in trauma treatment?
And how do these themes make their appearance in supervision?

Throughout the workshop, theory is complemented by case examples, practical exercises, and segments from Dr. Muller’s own treatment sessions. The workshop focuses on clinical skills that are directly applicable in our work as therapists and supervisors.

Tickets: Non-Members: £65; Members: £60; Retired Members £35

Please find the conference flyer with full details here

Booking can be made by emailing Jo at admin@supervision.org.uk , or directly through Eventbrite.

BAPPS has a new venture with Psychodynamic Practice, an international journal published by Taylor and Francis. We have already raised our world profile through one of our first papers – ‘Countertransference and tolerating ambivalence in supervision’ – by member, Hanoch Yerushalmi, from Israel, whose paper generated interest in BAPPS from Italy and South Africa. We wish to continue to spread the good work of BAPPS through your creativity and understanding of psychodynamic supervision.

This is your opportunity to write an article about some aspect of supervision that has meaning for you. How have you found giving supervision in the shadow of Covid 19? How has your psychodynamic understanding informed your work during this time? Psychodynamic Practice takes ‘main papers’, formal arguments with references, which are peer reviewed, 8,500 words; ‘Open space’ papers that are less formal, more like Op-Ed pieces, about 3000 words; Book Reviews of 1000 words and Book Review Essays of 3000 words. These are extended reviews with a compare and contrast element of other books and ideas.

You may have students that are in supervision training, or doing an MA, MSc. PhD whose papers could be prepared for publication through Bapps. Or, you might wish to submit a paper to prepare the ground for an upcoming book of your own. These are possible ways of building on what already exists rather than writing from a blank page.

There is further information about how to submit an article to Psychodynamic Practice available from Jo, and/or Melinda Meigs. The editorial team at PP is also willing to help with the process. We look forward to reading your contributions.