Trainers:
Gerry Byrne (Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, MBT Practitioner)
Clare Mein (Clinical Psychologist, MBT Practitioner)
You will gain:
Understanding of the centrality of mentalizing to the parent-child relationship.
Understanding of the attachment-oriented Lighthouse metaphors, and confidence to use them in clinical practice.
Clinical skills to enhance parents' capacity for mentalizing; in particular mentalizing their children, and mentalizing under stress.
Clinical skills for facilitating a mentalization-based parenting group (MBT skills, group therapy skills, and MBT-P specific skills)
Experience of being in a parents' group and participating in Lighthouse group activities.
Confidence to run the Lighthouse Parents group programme with supervision.
Prerequisites:
To attend the training, you must have completed either MBT-Basic training (3-day), or MBT-skills training (1-day) as a minimum.
If you later wish to run the Lighthouse group programme in your service, at least one facilitator must be a registered MBT Practitioner.
Our kind hosts in Naas Co Kildare:
Heads of Psychology Services in Ireland
Dr Síle Murphy, Clinical Psychologist, Adult Mental Health Service, HSE Kildare/West Wicklow
This training is now fully booked.
We are always interested to hear from you. If you would like to discuss hosting a Lighthouse training workshop in your city in the future, please contact us→