This audio training presents an introduction to psychoanalytic and psychodynamic ideas that demonstrates the enormous contribution of this conceptual framework and treatment mode to the promotion of positive mental health over more than a century.
In this presentation, Dr. Ruth Schmidt Neven focuses on the broad scope of psychodynamic influence not only with respect to individual development and relational experience, but also with respect to our understanding of family systems, organizational life, culture, and community. She presents an integrated conceptualization in which the pioneering work of Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Bowlby, Bion and others is re-visited in tandem with the concepts of individual development, the family system, and the dynamics of organizational life. In this context she further introduces the leading theorists and practitioners of family systems thinking and group and organizational dynamics.
Dr. Ruth Schmidt Neven returns to the core principles of a psychodynamic approach and practice that has made practical and unique contributions to improving outcomes for children, young people, parents, families, and individual adults. She presents the evidence for understanding the critical links between the development of relationships, attachment, and the brain in promoting positive internal resources, and how making these links serves to promote mental health and prevent developmental breakdown and trauma.
Dr. Schmidt Neven explains how living and working psychodynamically is informed by an assumption of the continuity of process and meaning that leads to the recognition that all behaviour has meaning and is always a communication. Additionally, behaviour rather than being perceived as rigid and fixed is perceived as dynamic and constantly changing.
Dr. Schmidt Neven considers some of the current challenges to living and working psychodynamically. She provides a critique of the current reductionist bio-behavioural paradigm that is predicated on the narrowing of theoretical clinical and research frameworks that give rise to pathologizing behaviour rather than understanding it within a relational and meaning making context. She points to how an exclusive focus on medical and pathology-based solutions to mental health problems has contributed to an alarming lack of progress particularly in child and family mental health.
Finally, and based on her extensive experience in the field, Dr. Schmidt Neven explains how living and working psychodynamically can have a positive impact on prevention. She describes a community support model based on empowering parents in which important specialised knowledge about nurturing relationships can be taken out of the clinic setting to become common knowledge for the benefit of the wider community.
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WHAT YOU WILL GET
YOUR TRAINER
Ruth Schmidt Neven PhD is a child and adolescent psychotherapist, clinical psychologist, writer, and researcher with over four decades of experience in the field of psychotherapy and mental health. She is currently the director of the Centre for Child and Family Development in Melbourne Australia and promotes the not-for-profit podcast series, Talking Child Development.
Ruth has an international reputation in the field and worked for over twenty years in the NHS in the UK where she was a pioneer in the promotion of a national parent support programme, Exploring Parenthood. In Australia she was the inaugural Chief Psychotherapist at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. Ruth’s lectures and innovative training programmes have been run throughout Australia, in the UK, United States, South Africa and Israel. Her current research focus is on the application of time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy in work with at risk adolescents and their parents in an NHS service in the UK.
Ruth is the author of five highly acclaimed books on topics related to emotional development of children from birth to adulthood, parent support, rethinking ADHD, the core principles of assessment and therapeutic communication and time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy as well as papers in refereed journals. Her books and papers regularly form part of University and other teaching and training courses both in Australia and internationally.
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