The Disability Information and Resource Centre

From Bower Place:

The next Bower Place workshop, Eating Disorders is coming up on the 5th August, 2011. Do you have staff that are interested in this workshop, or any workshop that Bower Place has delivered?

We can bring the workshop to you, and tailor it to your organisation. These can be either half day or full day, and can either be at your organisation, or you can come to our office in the heart of Adelaide.

Topics include:

• Eating Disoders
• Nonviolent Resistance
• Mothers and Daughters
• Men and Shame
• Children as Perpertrators
• Change: working with difficult clients
• Resilience in Children and Adolescents

If you have a specific topic in mind, please call or email our Director of Training and we may be able to develop it for you.

Director of Training, Kate Mayfield, kate.mayfield@bowerplace.com.au, 08 8221 6066.

Bower Place have an article concerning cognitive and achievement tests. An excerpt:

In testing the cognitive ability and achievement levels, the Weschler range of tests (WAIS, WISC, WIAT, WPPSI) have long been seen as the industry standard, and are used by psychologists all over the Western world. However, it is not as widely known that there are alternatives to the Weschler tests that offer considerable benefits over the standard tests.

Read the full article.

From Bower Place:

In March the Institiute of Family Studies published a fact sheet, “Families in regional, rural and remote Australia”, exploring characteristics of those who live in cities compared to those in the bush.The authors, Jennifer Baxter, Matthew Gray and Alan Hayes concluded that “While there are many similarities in the nature of families and their lives across areas of varying remoteness, overall distance still exercises some “tyrannous” influences on the lives of Australians and their families.” These include less access to services, reduced aspirations for children’s education and poorer physical development and learning outcomes for those outside major cities.

One area of disadvantage for professionals is access to good quality professional development in their area of expertise.This can be particularly difficult and entail significant costs for those who need to accrue points to maintain registration. To this end Bower College is offering workshops in ruaral areas, the first of these being in Mt Gambier on April 4th. PD points are available for both psychologists and social workers

Clink on this link to learn more.

Bower Place will be holding a workshop on co-morbidity on Friday April 1st.

Co-morbidity is the presence of more than one mental health disorder in an individual, in particular depression, personality disorder and substance abuse. Co-morbidity complicates treatment and can act against positive outcomes.

Details of this workshop, and others that Bower Place will be holding throughout the year, can be found on the Bower Place website.

Bower College have released their workshop schedule for 2011. There will be workshops concerning various mental health issues, managing violent situations, family issues and other topics.

Presented by: Malcolm Robinson & Catherine Sanders

Date: Friday 20 August 2010: 2:00pm – 5:00pm

Location: Bower Place, Level 2, 55 Gawler Place Adelaide 5000

Fee: $77

A workshop for practitioners who work with multi-system, multi-problem, complex & co-morbid situations which appear resistant to influence. Based on the Bower Place Complex Needs Clinic, this workshop reviews change theory & practice & applies it to individuals, couples & families who present with complex mental health issues, substance abuse, relationship fragmentation, violence & abuse, in the context of disability & systemic disadvantage. This workshop presents an alternative view of transformational change & strategies for working effectively with very challenging clients & their families.

Register: http://www.bowerplace.com.au/workshops.php?id=19

Contact: info@bowerplace.com.au

Bower Place will be running a workshop on Non-Violent Resistance on Friday 10th September, from 9.30am to 4.30pm.

Presenters: Catherine Sanders and Malcolm Robinson.

Cost: $250 (including GST).

For more information on the workshop, the principles of Non-Violent Resistance, and to book visit the Bower Place website.

BOWER COLLEGE PRESENTS ALDO GURGONE – Trust, Betrayal and Rejection; Re-establishing Trust in the Couple Relationship

On Friday 12th of March Aldo Gurgone will be presenting a workshop ‘Trust, Betrayal and Rejection; Re-establishing Trust in the Couple Relationship’ where he will address infidelity in the couple relationship. A new form of betrayal presenting to therapists is cyber–sex. How do we conceptualize these ‘affairs’ and how should we address them?

There are only a few spaces left!

This workshop has been approved by the Australian Psychological Society to receive a total of 12 Generalist points.

For more information you can view the flyer.

You can also view a Bower College blog post on the talk.

Bower Place will be presenting a workshop titled Nonviolent Resistance Revisited as a part of their 2010 workshop series.

From Bower Place:

“The philosophy of Nonviolent Resistance empowers parents, raises parent-teacher presence & works collaboratively with extended family, friends, community, school & professional systems to establish structures for non-violent leadership, responsibility & authority. Bower Place has extended the use of Nonviolent Resistance (NVR) to address the anger & aggression that masks the deeper needs of children.”

This workshop is presented by Malcolm Robinson, Social Worker & Catherine Sanders, Psychologist, both Directors of Bower Place.

When and Where

Friday 26th March 9:30am- 4:30pm

Level 2, 55 Gawler Place, Adelaide SA 5000

For more information you can view the flyer or contact Bower Place at info@bowerplace.com.au or 08 8221 6066.

To register for the workshop fill out the application form and return it to Bower Place.