Trauma, Addiction and Family Systems: Supporting Healing Across Generations
(Registration limited to 50 participants)
(CPD: 6 points (ACI))
Presenters: Marion Rackard & Mick Devine
For further information please contact: mick.devine@hotmail.com
Date/Time:
Saturday 5th April 2025 at 10:00 until 17:00
Venue:
Brandsma Room
Carmelite Community Centre
56 Aungier St
Dublin D02 T258
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BACKGROUND
Many clients attending for treatment in Ireland today for drug and alcohol disorders and for counselling generally are contending with the childhood adversity of being raised in a household where substance use disorder was a significant influence on the holding environment. This factor limited the physical, psychological and emotional availability of one or both parents to meet the developmental needs of the growing child. The treatment and counselling processes can bring the impacts of these limitations on the client’s personality development into awareness. Within the therapeutic alliance these limitations can be reworked to facilitate personal development of the clients and/or effective readjustment. As a result of this process the enduring and prevailing constraints on the client’s functioning in daily life can be understood. Exploration of how parental substance use disorder has a particular influence on the emerging personality of the child/client equips the therapist to provide detailed and assured support to the client as they struggle to come to terms with present day problems.
Reviews of previous seminar with 48 IAHIP Members (Feb 2024)
- "Both presenters so honest, open and knowledgeable which helped to anchor the theory. It’s hopeful to see healing in action."
- "Thank you, loved the grounding, the experiential, very inclusive and safe workshop”.
- “I truly valued today, thank you for giving space to speak about the unspeakable. The use of the bottle of alcohol was very impactful"
AIM
To provide an opportunity for counsellors and psychotherapists to explore developmental trauma resulting from parental problem alcohol use and how this limits:
i. Functioning in daily life
ii. Relating in relationships
iii. Impact on work in addiction
OBJECTIVES
- To establish a learning environment where participants engage experientially with material presented
- To present the work of leaders in the field of Adult Children of Alcoholics Trauma Syndrome
- To present the work of leaders in the field of developmental psychology
- Participants reflect on their practice in the light of the material and experiment with applying new learnings to their work role.
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PRESENTERS
Marion Rackard, ACI, IAHIP
Counsellor (ACI), Psychotherapist (IAHIP) (2000), Supervisor (ACI&IAHIP)
Worked in a variety of HSE Trauma and Addiction services for 32 years as Senior Addiction Counsellor (West Dublin) & Director of a National Counselling Service in Kildare/W Wicklow
Founding member (2002), Chair and CEO, of Alcohol Action Ireland & Co-founder of Silent Voices (2019) Silent Voices - Alcohol Action Ireland
Final post as Project Manager HSE Alcohol Programme with responsibility for https://www2.hse.ie/living-well/alcohol/ campaign & resources.
Currently in private practice in Kildare
“Providing safe spaces to speak the unspeakable”.
Mick Devine, ACI
Clinical Director with Tabor Group Addiction Services in Cork since 2011. Over 30 years experience in the field of alcohol and drug treatment. Trained in Family Systems Theory and very interested in personal and spiritual development and has recently completed teacher-training in Diamond Approach to Self-Realisation. He believes there is a need for more personal and professional development for therapists to enable them to explore this sensitive field in greater depth. He published two articles on this topic in IAHIP journal Inside Out in 2022.
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BOOKING
Please REGISTER HERE before Friday 28th March.
Registration Fee (including tea and coffee):
- €95 for IAHIP, IACP and ACI Accredited Members and Associates
- €120 for General Admission
(Payment to be completed by Fri 28th March 2025)
Please forward Registration Fee by Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) to:
Account Name: Mick Devine
Bank Address: 105 Douglas Road, Douglas, Co. Cork
IBAN: IE84AIBK93434871040084
BIC: AIBKIE2D
Please include payment ID: Seminar05Apr25
