Treating Trauma: The Pathway to Transformation

• Compare and contrast evidence-based-interventions, common factors, and emerging trends for effective treatment of traumatic stress
• Identify the common factors for healing traumatic stress.
• Comprehend the importance of therapeutic relationship and positive expectancy (relational factors) for positive outcomes in treatment.
• Articulate the role of reciprocal inhibition, relaxation, self-regulation, exposure and narrative in the treatment of traumatic stress.
• Understand concept and procedure for enhancing therapeutic relationship as method for increasing positive outcomes.
• Appreciate the potential deleterious personal effects associated with treating traumatic stress.
• Examine the nature of traumatic stress.
• Provide psychoeducation and cognitive restructuring techniques for maximizing client engagement and participation in early stages of treatment
• Determine the efficacy of self-regulation skills as a preliminary treatment intervention for trauma.
• Examine the clinical research that supports the imperative factors that influence the efficacy of trauma treatment.
• Incorporate clinical interventions and techniques for the initial assessment, safety and stabilization phase of treatment as well as the remembrance and mourning phases of trauma treatment.
• Develop clinical skills to support and facilitate recovery from complicated bereavement in clients.
• Dualism’s impact on healing
• Key steps for conducting a comprehensive assessment of trauma.
• Assess the comorbidity of traumatic stress in other diagnoses, including personality disorders and Dissociative Identity Disorder, and identify appropriate treatment interventions.

Who this course is for:

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Case Managers
• Addiction Counselors
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals