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Curriculum Vitae - Rosemary Kate Hughes
44, St. Agnes Place, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 7TU.
Tel: 01243 533961. Email: [email protected]
National Insurance Number: NB271688C
Creative person, Dramatherapist, counsellor, humanistic practitioner,
prolific reader, literature enthusiast, amateur watercolourist and minor
author.
Diploma College of Occupational Therapists [Liverpool, 1979].
MA Dramatherapy [Derby 2011].
35 years experience in Mental Health, working with a wide range of
Psychological problems, and 24 years as carer of son with Aspergers
Syndrome.
Now commencing a new career pathway direction, since achieving my
recent MA.
Member of British Assoc. of Dramatherapists (affiliated to British Assoc.
for Counsellors and Psychotherapists).
Member of Solent Psychotherapists group and Brighton Area
Dramatherapy Network.
State Registered Arts Therapist [Dramatherapist} - Registration no. AS14369 [Renewal date: 31/05/2018].
Looking for part-time work with fewer management responsibilities that
will make enhanced use of my creative and communication skills.
Experienced in working with children, adolescents, adults and in all areas
of psychological health and learning disability.
Expert in social skills training and communication skills development.
Skilled in working with ASD, using Social Stories and roleplay.
Looking to move into work in Educational field, as I feel I’ve much to offer
with my specific Dramatherapy skills in the area of child development.
Specialist also [due to my Occupational Therapy years] in teaching a
variety of life skills subjects, including cookery, nutrition, laundry, travel
skills, literacy & numeracy.
Experience
16/06/15 - Present Day
Autism Sussex
1 Summerley Lane, Felpham, PO22 7HN
Running a fortnightly Drama Group for Adults with Asperger Syndrome
09/11/15 - 31/08/16
Coastal West Sussex Mind
The Gateway
8-10 Durrington Lane
Worthing
West Sussex
BN13 2QG
Working with older people with mental health problems, including dementia, in a
drop-in day centre setting; assessment of needs, development of personal
support plans, working both with individuals towards their own recovery goals
and providing groupwork sessions including workshops on Mental Health issues,
completion of notes on sessions, some community outreach.
2013 – 15:
Whilst between jobs, due to relocation to Sussex, I kept up with latest research
and clinical practice through:
Dramatherapy Summer School Placement at The Asociatia Samariteanul
Milos Pentru Copiii Abandonati (The Association of Compassionate
Samaritans Home for Abandoned Children) in Ghimbav, Romania.
Attendance at 3-day Dramatherapy Annual Conference in Cirencester, 2 x
International Society for Psychosocial Approaches to Psychosis day
conferences and 2 x British Assoc. for Dramatherapists study days in
London, UK and 3-day European Society for Trauma and Dissociation
Conference in Kobenhavn, Denmark and am progressing towards my
diploma in Neurodramatic Play with Dr. Sue Jennings, Dramatherapist.
Ongoing participation in Sussex-based skills-sharing Dramatherapy and
Psychotherapy groups.
2004 – 2013:
Greater Manchester West NHS Foundation Trust.
Employed as Senior Occupational Therapist/Band 6 & [post Dramatherapy
MA] as Clinical Specialist in Dramatherapy.
Working with adults and young people with mental illness, learning
disability, behavioural problems and/or personality disorders.
Work centred [as have most of my Occupational Therapy jobs] on
assessment of needs, problem-solving, conflict resolution, managing
stress and low self-esteem, developing independence skills with
individuals, all of which are very applicable to school children,
particularly those with Special Needs.
Led group sessions which focussed on creative expression, improving
basic literacy and numeracy and building communication skills and co-ran
the mobile library.
Liaison with families/ carers, other therapists and creative/ educational
services was another part of my job, as was community outreach.
Responsible for my own caseload and online records, as well as for
programme planning and for managing junior staff.
Undertook Health and Safety inspections, led Audit of my Unit’s Therapy
programme and joined North West Mentoring Scheme.
Researched into Creative Ability Model of assessment, comparing with
Occupational Therapy’s Model of Human Occupation and Occupational
Case Analysis Interview Rating Scale alongside Salvo Pitruzzella
(Dramatherapists)’s Creativity Assessment, as used in ‘An Enquiry on
Creativity from Arts Therapy's Perspective’ and the Consensual Creativity
Assessment Technique, a Social Psychology assessment looking at
product vs. process creativity.
Participated in regular Developmental Transformations training sessions
at Derby University and attended at Manchester Institute for
Psychotherapy Readers and discussion groups.
2001 – 2004:
Rockley House, Bolton Salford and Trafford Mental Health Trust.
Employed as Senior I Occupational Therapist at a community hostel
ward, with adults and young people with enduring mental illness &/ or
learning disability, experiencing high levels of social dysfunction and
challenging behaviours.
Work concentrated on developing social, community and practical skills,
using a combination of individual and group work. Planned and carried
out all Occupational Therapy activities, whilst also supervising of an
assistant and a series of students.
Taught sessions for school of nursing on Recovery Model and co-led staff-
training sessions with other members of the Clinical Management Team
on use of new assessments which integrated with the Care Programme
Approaches’ areas of need.
Sat on Family Interventions Committee and produced a booklet for
distribution on managing relapse episodes & helping family members to
get back on track towards wellness.
Worked as a vital part of the multi-disciplinary team, as well as being
involved in much community liaison.
1999 – 2000:
Salford Learning Disability Team, Sandringham House:
Employed as Head IV Occupational Therapist. This was a research post;
looking into the needs of adults with multiple learning difficulties.
I interviewed various clients, carers and therapeutic staff, researched
PMLD and also applied assessment techniques, as well as exploring,
interpreting and critically analysing therapeutic texts on the subject of
creative work with this client group, before presenting my findings at the
end of the project.
1993 – 1997:
Glendale Adventist Medical Center, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Employed as Senior Occupational Therapist.
Work involved using my groupwork skills to provide a range of
therapeutic interventions, such as relaxation/ stress management,
assertiveness training, creative writing, music and movement, bodily
awareness, mime and improvisation, expressive Arts therapies etc. with
the aims of personal growth and of assisting individuals in the
development of coping and self-help skills through evaluation of needs,
development of individual programmes of activities, goal-planning and
graded progress towards personal social, employment and community
objectives.
1988 – 1991:
In-Patient Unit, North House, Cheadle Royal Hospital.
Employed as Senior Occupational Therapist.
Work entailed planning and setting-up of a package of services to fit the
needs of a changing clientele. In addition I led creative therapy groups
including self-help, social skills, grief counseling and engaged in
individual counselling aimed at promoting self-responsibility, informed
decision-making & co-operative planning.
1982 – 1988:
Psychiatric Day Hospital, Manchester Royal Infirmary.
Employed as Senior I Occupational Therapist.
Working with learning disabled adults and mental health clients.
Led a team of 3 within the milieu of a therapeutic community, facilitating
a range of activities and individually-tailored interventions.
1979 – 1982:
Booth Hall Children’s Hospital, Blackley, Manchester.
Employed initially as a Basic Grade Occupational Therapist, then as my
skills developed I moved up to Senior level.
Working with disturbed children, aged 5 – 16, using Play Therapy, Drama
techniques, abuse counselling and esteem-building work. Led various
skills groups and also worked individually with clients.
Post Graduate Training Courses
Stress Management – Day Release: 1981 - 2
Dramatherapy – Day Release: 1982 - 3
Experiential Groupwork – Day Release: - 1983 -4
Art & Music Therapies – Day Release: 1984 - 5
Advanced Drama – Day Release: 1985 - 6
Psychodrama – Day Release: 1986 - 7
Assertiveness – Day Release: 1988 - 9
Family Therapy – Day Release: 1989 - 90
Counselling Skills – Day Release: 1990 – 91
Psychosocial interventions – Day Release: 2008 – 9
College of Occupational Therapy – Various over the years, incl. writing for
journals & research methodologies.
British Assoc. of Dramatherapists – Various, developing aspects of the
Dramatherapy skills-base & keeping up with my continuous professional
development.
During my NHS years, I have worked with children, teenagers, young adults and
also with families work as part of my previous jobs. During my dramatherapy
training I enjoyed the work in schools with children with emotional difficulties
and feel I have a lot to offer due to long experience of working with depression,
anxiety and low self-esteem. I have worked with learning disabilities and also
could bring in my dramatherapy non-verbal skills if needed.
I also have experience as carer of a child on the Autistic spectrum.
My Hobbies and Interests
Literature/ Reading
Nature/ Walks/ Cycling
Photography
Creative Writing
Jewellery-making
Alternative Cinema/ Theatre
Singing/ Dance
Watercolour Painting
References
Dr. John Casson
Dramatherapist
20 Beedon Avenue, Little Lever
Bolton, Greater Manchester, BL3
1QH
Tel: 01204 706531.
Email: [email protected]
Supervisor, Colleague & Mentor
Brigid Wells
Dramatherapist
17, Grayling Street, Derby, DE23
8FS
Tel: 07905 601209
Email: [email protected]
Facilitator of Dramatherapy CPD
Group
Linda Whieldon
Tutor, Dramatherapy MA
Britannia Mill, Derby University
Mackworth Road, Derby, DE22 3BL
Tel: 01332 594055
Email: [email protected]
Jane Kirkbride
Senior Occupational Therapist
2 Larkspur Close, Ruislip, Middx, HA4 7JS
Tel: 01457 877161
Email: [email protected]
Colleague
Bernadette Carolan
Senior Occupational Therapist
Edenfield Centre, Prestwich Hospital
Bury New Road Prestwich, Manchester,
M25 3BL
Tel: 0161 773 9121 x4692
Email: [email protected]
Colleague, Supervisor & Manager
Ms Rayner Waszkiewicz, Manager, Chichester Living Well Services, Coastal
West Sussex Mind Head Office, The Gateway, 8 – 10 Durrington LaneWorthing, West Sussex, BN13 2QG
Telephone No: 07495 077298
Email: [email protected]
Manager.
My Specific Dramatherapy skills for working with Special Needs:
Autistic Spectrum Disorders
As a Dramatherapist I have learned that people with ASD benefit from an
opportunity to explore non-verbal expression, safe touch and movement.
Dramatherapy work is centred around building communication skills and
supports the client in relating to peers and others. Through use of dramatherapy
techniques, groupwork can slowly be tolerated and mirroring etc. is used to
improve a child’s understanding of others. Dramatherapy also provides an
opportunity for a child to interact safely and to develop relationship skills.
Roleplay and social story work is part of the Dramatherapy skills base, as is use
of poetry and music to help a child to express difficult to verbalise feelings.
Child Development and Anxiety/ Depression
Drama is our first language. When we were born we didn’t have any words, so
we used other things, movements, touch, objects sounds to be understood.
Children coping with psychological issues respond quickly when they are given a
safe space and allowed to choose their own communication tool to support their
own development. Dramatherapists can respond using the child’s own mode of
communication and in a non-confrontational manner.
Through the use of mime, painting, or the ordering of objects they can quickly
and ably backfill vital missed experiences. This quickly improves psychological
health without having to build a trusting relationship with the therapist over a
long period. Dramatherapists have a wide and varied set of exercises to tune into
the clients and are trained to connect with the client through mirroring, body
language.
They also have training in working with disrupted attachment and pitching
activities at the child’s developmental level. Dramatherapy removes the barriers
to learning, because it offers a safe space to process anger and other persistent
unhelpful beliefs and/or behaviours that would otherwise damage the child’s
progress through their school career.
Learning Disability
Working with Learning Disability has always been a part of my role as an
Occupational Therapist. However as a Dramatherapy student I also worked at
the Leopard Theatre Company with adult learning disabilities in Oldham,
Manchester and since completing my Dramatherapy MA, have specialised in
communication skills development and in work with ASD, using Social Stories
and roleplay, alongside a range of other Dramatherapy techniques.
Learning Disabled young people have less intellectual resources and thus
impaired abilities to adapt to change. They tend to find visual/ aural over-
stimulation engulfing and can often experience fearfulness in response to
stresses, as well as having difficulties managing emotional regulation. When
coping with psychological issues Learning Disabled young people can respond
well to group activities, where they are given a safe space and allowed to choose
their own means of self expression.
Dramatherapy sessions can be a place where new behaviour and emotions are
safely explored and later these may transfer to a client’s everyday life, leading to
a sense of empowerment and improved self-confidence. Dramatherapy can also
help to process sadness, anger and to tackle persistent unhelpful beliefs and/or
behaviours that hinder social integration.
Challenging Behaviours
I am used to managing challenging behaviours and motivational problems that
can result from anxiety, depression and poor self-view and am a good listener, a
caring, flexible and positive person and very much a team player, used to multi-
disciplinary working and networking with many diverse agencies. Work in a
variety of settings and with a large assortment of clients has taught me to
organise my way of working around a client’s strengths, needs and abilities/
disabilities. I am a humanistic practitioner, using person-centred therapies and
encouraging self-determination and fostering positive self-view. I am skilled in
different means of communicating and a creative thinker, good at using my
initiative and planning my own projects.
Looking at the specific skills base for Teaching/ Learning assistant work:
Key skill 1 Experience of working with primary aged children and young people,
including working with risk issues.
Risk assessment has long been a major part of my role as an Occupational
Therapist and I have had to risk assess many of my sessions before carrying
them out, i.e. if taking clients into the community or teaching cookery skills. I
have a good understanding of challenging behaviours including self-harm and
how of how low mood or high stress can effect behaviour. I have worked more
with teenagers than young children in recent years, but work with younger
children has been part of family work always. My work at Booth Hall Children’s
Hospital grounded me in use of play therapy and I then went on to do a long
series of day release training courses in a range of expressive therapies,
culminating in my Dramatherapy MA. My dramatherapy placements in 2009 &
10 were all in schools, working with grief issues, refugees and emotional trauma
of all sorts, which has led me to wish to do more work in this area, especially as
my own son struggled throughout his schooldays and I worked both in the
classroom and later in the school library during those years and also sat on the
Transition Planning Forum of the Autistic Society Greater Manchester Area for
several years.
Key skill 2 A willingness to use creative arts therapeutically.
As a Dramatherapist this is the sole purpose and focus of the work I am trained
to do. I look forward to using my skills in drama, art, creative writing, claywork,
puppetry etc. with your young people as needed. I paint watercolours myself
and attended a creative writing group regularly in Manchester. I have led groups
in all kinds of creative arts in a variety of settings including adult education.
Key skill 3 A willingness to work within a multi-agency setting as well as
independently.
In my work both as an Occupational Therapist and as a Dramatherapist, I have
long done both of these effectively and have also trained others to do so. The
Multi-disciplinary teams I have worked with have included those in NHS
settings, comprising medical and nursing staff, psychologists, speech and
language therapists, physiotherapists, social workers and other community-
based healthworkers/ social services staff. However I have also been part of
teams encompassing employment and job centre staff and within educational
establishments and in addition have sat on inter-agency committees in various
locations.
Key skill 4 Flexible interpersonal attitude.
Work in a variety of settings and with a large variety of clients over 35 years has
taught me to organise my way of working around a client’s strengths, needs and
abilities/ disabilities. I have always believed in working humanistically, using
person- centred therapies and with adherence to the tenets of the Recovery
Model, encouraging personal empowerment, self-determination and fostering
positive self-view. Every client is different and thus needs differing input and
each multi-disciplinary team functions differently. I am skilled in different means
of communicating and understand how individuals in a team need to all feel
valued in order to work well together.
Key skill 5 An understanding of the theoretical basis of the work, and of child
development.
Child development was an important module in my Dramatherapy training and I
also had this learning reinforced this summer working for a Dramatherapy
project with orphans in Romania. I have just completed my level one training in
Neuro-Dramatic Play with Dr. Sue Jennings and plan to go on to level two and
three. I have a good understanding of attachment theory and also of the role of
the teacher as a key player in the development of child resiliency and emotional
regulation.
I have had my own students (Occupational Therapy, Nursing and latterly
Dramatherapy) and have fieldwork educator certification. I have worked with
dyslexia and have also attended courses as a carer run by the National Autistic
Society.
Key skill 6 Good written and verbal communication skills.
I have long been responsible for writing up all my own assessments and reports
on client progress, both as an Occupational Therapist and a Dramatherapist. I
have taught Communication Skills groups as a Dramatherapist and written these
up for the Dramatherapy Journal. I have also written articles for the British
Journal of Occupational Therapy and for the National Childbirth Trust and the
American equivalent; the Mom’s Club. I am skilled in both verbal and non-verbal
Communication Skills as a Dramatherapist.
Key skill 7 Experience of managing administrative tasks to include evaluations.
As a Senior Occupational Therapist I was responsible for running a department
on several occasions & have assessed and evaluated clients, staff and working
environments as part of my job in all situations. I have supervised junior staff
and students and been an appraiser as well as an appraisee. I have led stock-
takes, ordered and booked in supplies and equipment, managed petty cash and
also been responsible for departmental health and safety, leading the annual
inspection and preparing the report for management.
Key skill 8 To be able to work competently on a time limited basis.
As both an Occupational Therapist and a Dramatherapist, sessions based on
specific client needs have always been time limited and reports have to be in on
time for regular case conferences and tribunals. I have always been responsible
for my own diary, appointments and reports.
Key skill 9 A sound understanding of Child Protection issues and procedures.
Child Protection has long been one of the NHS core values and I am used to
following procedure and aware of the reporting guidelines and of the importance
of sharing information across disciplines in order to safeguard vulnerable
children.
Key skill 10 Demonstrate a working understanding of the principle of equal
opportunities as it applies to the context of the post.
As stated previously, I am a humanistic practitioner and a very experienced
therapist. Equal Opportunities are the foundation of NHS and Occupational
Therapy practice. Throughout my career I have worked on the premise of
helping all clients, regardless of gender, race or background to be the best they
can be.
