Description:
OPD Points: 5
Learn about best practice in working with clients with posttraumatic stress, with Professor Gill Eagle.
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
Gill looks at cognitive-behavioural techniques and EMDR and the core effective components of these, highlighting to practitioners which elements to focus on with trauma clients. Factors relevant to the South African context, such as working with clients exposed to continuous traumatic stress, are addressed, and intergroup prejudice related to traumatic stress is considered. The speaker also addresses the risks of vicarious traumatisation for practitioners, looking at how practitioners can protect themselves from burnout and vicarious trauma.
Presenter / Provider:
Prof. Gill Eagle
Presenter Qualifications:
Gillian Eagle is a professor and Head of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Gill has been involved in clinical practice and supervision of psychotherapy, and has a particular interest in treatment of and research around traumatic stress. She has published widely in the areas of traumatic stress, violence studies and gender studies, with research interests generally in examining the interface between social psychological and clinical theory.
