1 Day Online CPD Introduction to Working with Adult Adoptees
Mon 30 Sept
|Psychotherapy Institute


Time & Location
30 Sept 2024, 10:00 – 17:00
Psychotherapy Institute, Institute St, Bolton BL1 1PZ, UK
About the event
Event price: £95
Booking details:https://www.psychotherapyinstitute.co.uk/course/1-day-online-cpd-introduction-to-working-with-adult-adoptees
In this workshop we will learn about the main considerations when working therapeutically with Adult Adoptees. Due to the recent changes in Government Legislation, therapists are now no longer required to be OFSTED registered to work with Adult Adoptees. This is great news for Clients who have been adopted in that the therapy they can access has been significantly extended for them to have more choice and less waiting lists. However, this is a specialist area which requires knowledge of the differing experiences an adoptee may have had (dependent on when they were adopted i.e. whether it was closed, partially open or open adoption). How the attachment trauma may have resulted in PSTD which may have been misdiagnosed as BPD or another Personality Disorder. Also, the need for the Adoptee to feel they have choice / autonomy & agency in their therapy journey - a…