Professional Development Workshops
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Essentials in Sexual Minority Therapy – Day Three - 25th October 2008 or 21 Feb 2009
'Internalised oppression' refers to ways in which we, mostly unconsciously, take into our psyches and forms of thinking and being, oppressive ideas, attitudes, behaviours and feelings. These responses to systems of prejudice towards sexual minorities, with which we have all grown, can result in a range of clinical manifestations, from anxiety to self hatred, including rationalisation, erotophobia, homophobia, denial, projection, rigidity, compulsions and self harm. It is not possible, or ethical, adequately to address issues for sexual minorities in therapy or psychology without this vital context. This day provides information, theoretical models, and experiential exercises to raise awareness of these issues and begin to look at strategies for working therapeutically with them.
Aims:
To raise awareness of issues and forms of ‘internalised oppression'(IO) through information sharing
To contextualise IO within wider frameworks of oppression & prejudice through theoretical models
To generate personal learning about participants own IO through interactive exercises
To introduce clinical manifestations of IO and possible therapeutic interventions through group discussion
Objectives:
Students begin to contextualise psychological theory and clinical work, and their studies and practice on this programme, within wider psychosocial contexts
Students examine, and work with, their own IO in order to be more useful to clients in confronting theirs
Students are stimulated by this introduction to follow up the issues raised here personally, academically and in further supervision and training.
CHARLES NEAL worked in innovative education for 25 years with all ages and abilities in many contexts, becoming Co-ordinator of the largest London Open College Network & MA Access Studies tutor at South Bank University, before launching a busy independent consultancy, therapy and supervision practice in 1990. He is also co-editor of the ‘Pink Therapy' trilogy of handbooks (McGraw Hill 1996-2000) and a Clinical Associate with Pink Therapy. (UKCP accredited/ BAC registered/1st Class B.Ed & Cert.Ed.-Univ. London Inst. Ed.)
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