Online/Onsite Training Available
Adult Survivors of Developmental Trauma: A Framework for Assessment and Intervention
If you are a children’s mental health worker aware of the developmental trauma of the parents/caregivers you work with, or if you provide services to adults, and you want to be sure that you can identify and respond to developmental trauma in the most helpful way, this training is for you.
Engaging a parent/caregiver/adult who struggles with issues related to their own early life trauma can be very challenging. The result of such trauma can have an adverse impact on their current family system specifically on the child/parent relationship, the co-parenting relationship, and the marital dyad. Parents/caregivers/adults often feel that they are being confronted and blamed for this impact. This training will provide participants with a starting place in having these difficult conversations using a non-confrontational, non-blaming approach. This training brings focus to the importance and benefit of treatment interventions that will engage the parent/caregiver/adult in “doing their work” so that healing and repair can happen for the individual and their relational/family system.
This one day training will provide a brief outline of the shift that was started in 2003 by the Treatment and Research Advancements National Association for Personality Disorders (TARA-APD) concerning our understanding of BPD. A conceptual framework for understanding developmental trauma from a psychosocial and attachment perspective is reviewed highlighting what is meant by BPD, DT, PTSD, CPTSD. An overview of the impact of trauma on the brain will be presented along with primary symptoms.
The role of assessment as a means to formulating effective treatment interventions will be highlighted as the way to address the deficient sense of relational safety, emotion dysregulation, and lack of coherent personal identity and competence many parents/caregivers/adult trauma survivors struggle with.
Learning Objectives:
1. Differentiate between PTSD, CPTSD and Developmental Trauma.
2. Discuss the shifting perspectives on BPD.
3. Overview of developmental trauma in parents/caregivers/adults: impact on the brain, attachment and psychosocial development, and the key presenting symptoms.
4. Examine the role of assessment in treatment planning.
Trauma Treatment: A Group Model
Waiting for the Bomb to Drop And Not Knowing What To Do When It Does
In this one day training mental health professionals will be introduced to assessment tools, structured interviewing, pre and post measures, and a three phase group model of trauma treatment. They will be provided with both theory and skills in order to facilitate a trauma group for parents/ caregivers/adults impacted by trauma. Participants will learn more about the theory and research to date that informs this bottom-up approach to trauma treatment.
Learning Objectives:
1. Assess for Trauma in Adults. Note: Access to the measures presented requires proof of clinical status. The website to request access will be provided.
2. Review group facilitation skills and how they are applied in a trauma group.
3. Become familiar with the skill content provided in the three module format of WFTBTD.
4. Hands on practice with facilitation and application of these skills.
Recommended Prerequisite: Completion of the one day workshop "Adult Survivors of Developmental Trauma."
Workplace Traumatic Stress: Prevention and Intervention for Frontline Staff and First Responders
This one day workshop has been designed for a wide range of professionals who, by the nature of their work, are exposed to prolonged Workplace Traumatic Stress. Participants are provided with an overview of Workplace Traumatic Stress exploring the barriers to addressing WTS, the progression of burnout to PTSD, indicators/symptoms, strategies for prevention, and treatment interventions.
Learning Objectives:
1. What is meant by Workplace Traumatic Stress.
2. Gain awareness of the indicators/symptoms.
3. Review prevention strategies.
4. Review interventions for treatment.
