Rape Crisis Training Institute: Clinical Issues: Group Therapy for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Description

Friday, May 12, 2006
1-4 PM
27 Christopher St.
Registration Required.

This workshop will be a roundtable discussion, moderated by Madelyn Miller, LCSW, ACSW.

OBJECTIVES:

1. Provide an open forum in which local rape crisis clinicians can discuss current models, new developments and research findings relevant to group psychotherapy for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

2. Promote inter-rape crisis center discourse pertaining to current psychotherapeutic best practices for sexual violence survivors.

3. Address fundamental considerations in group psychotherapy with adult survivors of the relational trauma of childhood sexual abuse.

4. Ultimately increase knowledge of both clinical practice and research initiatives amongst the local rape crisis programs, and stimulate collaboration in establishing best practice.

To register, please complete this simple survey. Either click on the link you see below, or cut and paste the link into your internet browser in order to access the survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=960031998233.

Madelyn Miller, LCSW, ACSW, CGP is a psychotherapist in private practice, specializing in individual and group treatment with adult survivors of trauma, with a particular focus on childhood sexual abuse, providing clinical supervision, training, and consultation to colleagues and organizations working broadly with trauma survivors. She is Adjunct Associate Professor at New York University School of Social Work, and Adjunct Lecturer at Hunter College School of Social Work, where she has been teaching courses on trauma and accompanying loss over the years, including clinical practice with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and disaster, trauma, and loss, as well as advanced clinical practice with trauma survivors, respectively. She offers training, ongoing education, and support to colleagues working after disaster, and chairs the Disaster Trauma Working Group, NYC-Chapter, NASW, addressing individual and collective trauma and loss. Regarding the relational traumas of childhood sexual abuse, her workshops, seminars, and presentations on treatment and the treatment relationship consider attachment and loss issues, developmental considerations, understanding adults’ childhood experience of trauma, and the particular significance of groups after trauma. Her writings include a focus on developing connection, community, and continuity after trauma and loss, underlining the experience of clinicians. Her curriculum development for academic, institute, and continuing education settings has always incorporated her concern for the experience and process of the student of trauma study, as much as for the clinician’s experience of vicarious trauma.

Note: Participation in the RCTI is free for those individuals who work for a Department of Health Funded Rape Crisis Program. All other programs may send staff at a cost of $50 per person. Checks may be brought on the day of training, or sent in advance (make payable to NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault, memo: Clinical RCTI).