We provide online and face to face training for professionals working with traumatized children, young people and their families, such as psychologists, therapists, psychiatrists, social workers, residential staff, foster care workers, caregivers, and teachers.
We are specialised in children with developmental and chronic trauma. You can can become certified as a Sleeping Dogs Trauma Specialist individually, and as a team or organisation.
We organise online and face to face training on trauma-related topics such as:
The Sleeping Dogs method
Conversion / FND in children
We provide in-company training, workshops and presentations on the Sleeping Dogs method, other trauma related topics or customised for teams working with children in foster or residential care.
This one-day or two-day workshop provides an introduction to the method and the interventions. After participating in the Sleeping Dogs level I training and reading the book, participants are able to use the Sleeping Dogs method. However, the more practice, the more this method is used effectively. After the training, participants can join a supervision group or participate in individual supervision. The basic modules in level I:
• Identification of trauma
• Introduction to trauma treatment
• Resistance and motivation in engaging in treatment
• Using the Sleeping Dogs Method
• Providing psychoeducation
• Analysis of barriers to trauma treatment
• Treatment planning and interventions
This two-day workshop focuses on practising the method with difficult and stuck cases and using the interventions. The content of the workshop depends on the participants’ experiences and needs and can be customised. Topics such as how to motivate children, to discuss acknowledgement and responsibility with perpetrator-parents and how to work with traumatized parents with limited abilities can be covered. The basic modules level II:
• Treatment plans
• Talking to children about trauma
• Motivating children
• Stabilisation and preparation of children for trauma treatment
• Support for traumatized parents
• Systemic conversation with perpetrator-parents about the responsibily for the trauma
These levels consists of a two-day workshop or a series of competency-based sessions, and the completion of a number of Sleeping Dogs treatments of chronically traumatized children ranging in ages with a variety of problems. Clinicians work on their own goals in the context of their own practice to become certified as Sleeping Dogs Trauma Specialist. This can be done individually or in a team or group. The basic modules of level III and level IV:
• Treatment plans in challenging cases
• Trauma Healing Stories
• Sexual abuse
• Denial / disputed abuse
• Dissociation
We offer face-to-face and online supervision and consultation on complex cases, individually or in groups, in English, Danish and Dutch. Arianne Struik is also an EMDR Consultant for adults and children accredited by EMDR Europe, EMDRAA and EMDR NZ
