This three-hour workshop provides child welfare social workers with an overview of a therapeutic practice framework (presenter Nicki Weld’s SPHERE model) to support and enhance the well-being of adults who have experienced relational trauma.
After attending this training, participants will be able to:
- Apply the SPHERE model to explore and assess the impacts of relational trauma.
- Apply the SPHERE model to frame a therapeutic approach to supporting trauma recovery.
- Name ways to provide psycho-education around trauma.
- Identify ways to work with loss and grief.
- Identify ways to work with anxiety and anger.
- Describe how to support the development of a healthy self-relationship and interpersonal relationships.
About the presenter:
Nicki Weld, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland and the director of CNZN Ltd., New Zealand. Over the past 30 years, Weld, a native of Aotearoa (Maori New Zealand), has worked in a variety of human services and child protection roles, including as a professional leader for social work in general health, a senior social worker, a supervisor, a senior child protection trainer and a national social work advisor within the New Zealand government and non-government sectors. Weld is the author of seven human services books and the primary creator of the internationally applied Three Houses tool.