18 Training Summaries to Read (Package No. 1)
In-depth summaries of the psychology training courses available on the Psy-Training website (H4 Publishing, partner of Education & Family – University of Mons).
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Psy-Training Compendiums (Package No. 1):
- MINDFULNESS MEDITATION IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
- ANAMNESIS
- SUPPORTING CHILDREN WHO ARE VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE
- OCCUPATIONAL BURNOUT
- THE GENOGRAM
- THE LOSS OF LOVE
- DEPENDENCY IN COUPLES
- THE BIRTH OF AGING AND THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL ADVANCEMENTS
- THE HELPING RELATIONSHIP
- EMPATHY
- PARANOIA
- PERSONALITY AND PSYCHODYNAMIC STRUCTURE
- PSYCHOGENEALOGY
- SHAME AND GUILT
- STRESS
- DEPRESSION
- INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF TRAUMA
- WHY WRITE? NARRATIVE RESILIENCE
Sample:
INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF TRAUMA — detailed summary of the training by Florence Calicis, psychologist, available on the Formationspsy website (H4 Éditions, partner of Education & Family – University of Mons).
Trauma transmission and family secrets: an introduction. Florence Calicis, systemic psychotherapist, shares her clinical expertise on how trauma travels between generations and on the weight of family secrets in therapy. Traumas left unspoken, she argues, can do more damage to family members than those openly addressed. Her practice explores each patient’s suffering within their present and past contexts of belonging, attending closely to family interactions and to the events that have shaped the family story.
The family’s place in the therapeutic process. Even when the identified patient is an individual, Calicis involves the family, which she regards as a decisive source of support and a vehicle of change. In work with adolescents, for instance, she brings the parents into the process even where the initial request did not include them.
Protective secrets and identity. Not every secret is toxic: some sustain a distinct identity. Calicis gives the example of Mélodie, a teenager whose private journal creates a mental space of freedom and reflection. Such secrets nourish creativity and introspection — essential ingredients of mental health — and deserve protection all the more in the era of social media, where intimacy is constantly under pressure.
The kinds of family secrets. Calicis proposes a three-part classification, singling out the secrets whose effects corrode the generations that follow: they weigh on family dynamics and endanger the wellbeing of children and grandchildren by feeding the intergenerational transmission of suffering. The training concentrates on these secrets and their transmission, to understand their impact and help families work them through.
Secrets about past events. The first category concerns family events that predate the children’s birth — chapters in the history of parents, grandparents or great-grandparents: physical or sexual abuse, questions of sexual orientation, extramarital affairs, serious crimes and imprisonment. Hidden from the children, these secrets can nonetheless echo across generations, quietly shaping descendants’ behaviour and emotional life.
Secrets about current events. The second category covers what parents are living through now but conceal from their children — psychiatric illness, abortion, legal trouble — secrets usually contained within the nuclear family. Meant as protection, they still colour the family atmosphere: the children sense the “elephant in the room” without ever being given an explanation.
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