Trauma: normal and pathological manifestations. Risk and protective factors.
Introduction to preventive and therapeutic strategies in psychological trauma.

Trainers: Joana P. Becker (Psychologist, Trauma Observatory), Rui Aragão Oliveira (Psychoanalyst, Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society).

[For queries regarding late enrolment, please contact observatoriodotrauma@ces.uc.pt ]

Programme     

15h00 | Joana P. Becker (Psychologist, Trauma Observatory)
Normal vs. Pathological: Reactions to Traumatic Stress and Therapeutic Indications

16h20 | Break

16:30 | Rui Aragão Oliveira (Psychoanalyst, Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society)
Trauma and Psychoanalytic Theory

Bio notes

Joana Proença Becker | Joana Proença Becker is a psychologist and psychotherapist, a researcher at the Trauma Observatory of the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra (UC) and a member of the Certification Committee of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS).
Joana has a PhD in Clinical Psychology, a Master's Degree in Social and Cultural Psychiatry and in Clinical Psychology - specialising in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. In addition to her degree in Psychology, she specialises in Dynamic Psychotherapy and Psychotraumatology. She has been working with trauma since 2008, when she began her career with the assessment of children and adolescents who had been victims of sexual abuse and observing screenings of adolescents in conflict with the law. She is part of the team at the Ministry of National Defence's "Resource Centre for Stress in a Military Context", has taught classes on psychoanalysis and dynamic psychotherapy and has been a trainer in courses and workshops on PTSD and crisis and catastrophe situations, a speaker at mental health events and a reviewer for national and international scientific journals. Her research focuses mainly on the effects of Dynamic Psychotherapy in the treatment of different psychopathologies, normal and pathological reactions after potentially traumatic events and the psychological consequences of crises and catastrophes.