July 20 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
This 2-hour workshop explores the differences and overlap between attachment trauma and shock trauma, helping clinicians understand how these experiences shape emotional regulation, relationships, identity, and nervous system functioning.
Topics covered include:
- Understanding attachment trauma and developmental trauma
- Understanding shock trauma and single-incident trauma
- Key differences between the two trauma presentations
- How attachment trauma and shock trauma can interact
- Evidence-based treatment approaches for attachment trauma
- Evidence-based treatment approaches for shock trauma
- Clinical considerations when both forms of trauma are present
This workshop is designed to support clinicians in developing a more nuanced understanding of trauma presentations and treatment planning.
Presenter – Dr Nick Bendit
Dr Nick Bendit is a Staff Specialist Psychiatrist working at the Centre for Psychotherapy (Newcastle), an outpatient public psychotherapy unit offering long-term psychotherapy for patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and eating disorders. He has treated patients with BPD using the Conversational Model and DBT and Group Schema Therapy, as well as supervising mental health clinicians in the management of patients with BPD. He is the current Director of Training of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (ANZAP).
He has published articles on mechanisms of change in psychotherapy, reviewing the effectiveness of DBT in borderline personality disorder, and mechanisms of chronic suicidal thoughts in patients with borderline personality disorder. He has been a co-author on the most recent Australian Clinical Practice Guidelines on deliberate self-harm in borderline personality disorder (RANZCP, 2016). He is the co-author of the third-largest randomised clinical trial of the effectiveness of psychotherapy in BPD, comparing DBT and the Conversational Model (Walton et al, 2020).
