Belfast & L’Derry Workshops: Working with Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Posted on Monday 2 January 2012
Belfast Workshops: Friday 13th January 2012; Friday 10th February 2012; Friday 17th February 2012
L’Derry Workshop: Friday 20th January 2012
Increasingly, society is ready to acknowledge that many adults in our midst have been damaged by sexual abuse. Despite this, we do not always understand what sexual abuse is, or know how we can best help those who have been so deeply hurt.
Banbridge Workshop: Effective Strategies for Working with Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Posted on Thursday 17 February 2011
All counsellors and health professionals working in clinical practice will experience clients disclosing child sexual abuse (1 Client in 4) and many struggle to work with the issues presented in their therapy room.
Zest for Life Training Programmes will host a 2 day workshop (12 hours CPD) on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th March 2011 at the Belmont Hotel, Banbridge, Co. Down from 9.30am – 4.30pm.
Belfast Workshop: Working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse
Posted on Sunday 20 June 2010
Practice Placements: Nexus Institute
Posted on Friday 28 May 2010
The NEXUS Institute offers counselling placements to trainee counsellors to enable them to develop their skills through clinical practice. Placements must commit to a minimum of one year, for approximately four hours a week. The NEXUS Institute will provide professional supervision and additional training at minimum cost to placements.
Belfast/L’Derry/Portadown/Enniskillen Workshops: Working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse
Posted on Thursday 25 February 2010
This workshop is for practising counsellors and student counsellors who have an interest in working in this area of therapeutic provision. The participants will gain a wider knowledge of the impact of childhood sexual abuse on the child and how this can manifest in later adulthood with debilitating and often crippling effect.
Sexual abuse and therapeutic services for children and young people in Northern Ireland
Posted on Tuesday 9 February 2010
Sexual abuse effects a significant number of children and young people with UK-wide prevalence research (including Northern Ireland) indicating that 11 per cent of males and 21 per cent of females have experienced some kind of sexual abuse in childhood (Cawson et al, 2000). The same prevalence research also tells us that only a small proportion disclose this abuse, with 72 per cent of sexually abused children reporting that they did not tell anyone about the abuse at the time. Although 27 per cent told someone later, around a third (31 per cent) still had not told anyone by early adulthood.