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Working with Trauma Survivors: Critical Variables when Identifying Trauma in Clients for Mental Health & Healthcare Professionals
Whether you’re a therapist or healthcare provider, missing client’s trauma cues can leave them with no path forward in life…
Co-occurring symptoms, complex trauma and other factors muddy the waters even more.
Gain the education to identify and assess critical variables with trauma survivors. Join Robert Lusk, PhD, and get training to:
- Spot the differences between developmental, complex & other trauma types
- Simplify diagnosis with updates from DSM-5-TR™
- Assess for co-occurring disorders
- Interpret current research for improved clinical outcomes
- Conceptualize treatment through a trauma phase framework
Don’t miss the signs of trauma – help your clients get the treatment they need from the first visit.
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine the development of trauma and a trauma treatment framework.
- Analyze DSM-5-TR™ criteria and assessment of trauma disorders and comorbidities.
- Appraise trauma research and phases of trauma treatment.
Outline
Critical Variables in Clinical Work with Trauma Survivors
- Risk Factors for worse effects of trauma
- Personal risk factors
- Event-related risk factors
- Big T vs. little t trauma and toxic stress
- Recovery environment factors
- Survival Mode
- Helping clients without physical/emotional safety
- Developmental factors & complex trauma
- Current research
- Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders: Main symptoms & common pitfalls
- A new disorder in 2022: Prolonged Grief Disorder
- My “favorite” trauma diagnosis
- Dissociative Disorders
- Assessment skills & scales
- Managing co-occurring disorders
- DSM-5-TR™ diagnostic criteria & how to use it
- Trauma symptoms commonly addressed in treatment
- NCTSN data (Youth)
- Adult samples
- Common effects and problems in addition to PTSD (including the pandemic)
- 5 Common trajectories of trauma symptoms
- Prevalence of trauma and PTSD
- Phases of treatment
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Physicians Assistants
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
07/19/2022
Psychopharmacology of Trauma for Mental Health & Healthcare Professionals
You’ve seen clients and patients come in with a laundry list of medications and multiple diagnoses – PTSD, depression, anxiety and more.
Whether you’re a therapist, social worker, nurse or other healthcare practitioner knowing the in-and-outs of how trauma and comorbid mental health problems effect the brain and are impacted by medication is essential to your work.
In simple, easy-to-understand modules you’ll walk away with:
- In-depth knowledge to enhance communication with treatment teams
- Essentials of trauma’s impact on the brain and what it means for your work
- Mastery of how medications interact with neurotransmitters to better understand medication function
- Expertise on commonly prescribed medications, including side effects, benefits, side-by-side comparison of medications - including when and why they’re prescribed
- Conjunctive strategies, lifestyle interventions & more!
Give your clients and patients the highest standard of care – learn the psychopharmacology of one of the most challenging and common clinical presentations, trauma and its comorbidities.
Program Information
Objectives
- Build foundational understanding of trauma including development and comorbidities.
- Build framework for understanding how trauma impacts the brain development and function.
- Investigate how neurotransmitters and medication interact and impact clients afflicted with trauma symptoms.
- Evaluate commonly utilized psychotropic medications, including adverse effects, applications, interactions and brain pathways utilized.
- Assess non-pharmaceutical interventions in treatment planning.
Outline
Trauma Epidemiology
- Thinking outside the box
- The 4 steps of HELP
- Types of trauma
- Manifestations of trauma
- Symptoms, maladaptive coping
- Adaptation responses & influencing factors
- Pathology v learned resilience
- Co-occurring disorders
- Trauma & PDs
Laying the Foundation for Medication: Trauma and the brain
- Neurobiology of trauma
- Stress and the developing brain
- Personal narrative
- Science of perception
- Diagnostic Criteria for PTSD
- Affected pathways/Brain regions affected by stress & trauma
- Mechanisms
- Neurotransmitters and neurotransmission as it relates to medications used in trauma & comorbid conditions
- Serotonin, NE, DA, GABA, etc.
- Easy-to-follow charts of pathways
- Agonist spectrum
Psychopharmacology: Adverse effects, how they vary & knowing when a client is appropriate for referral:
- Antidepressants – SSRIs & more
- Anxiety medications
- Anxiolytics
- Mood stabilizers
- Antipsychotics
- Frequent manifestations of trauma and pharmacological treatments.
- Sleep & nightmare medications
Conjunctive Therapies
- Self-care
- Care Teams & coordination
- Non-pharmacological therapies, modalities & more
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Case Managers
- Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
- Nurses
- Advanced Practice Nurses
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Pharmacists
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physician Assistants
Copyright :
05/25/2022
Trauma-Informed Care Before, During, & After Critical Incidents: Developing Resilience in Victims & Responders
Critical Incident Trauma: How to Prepare for It, Cope with It, and Survive after It
Many current offerings on critical incident trauma fall short by dealing almost exclusively with the aftermath of the event, the symptoms of trauma exposure, and basic treatment options. Successful coping also requires prevention and intervention, as well as an understanding of pre-event, event, and post-event factors that impact trauma and a negative or resilient response to it.
In this recording, Dr. Carrie Steiner, a Police Psychologist and former Chicago police officer, shows you an engaging exploration of how to positively impact the lives of victims, responders, and law enforcement agencies before, during, and after critical incidents. Dr. Steiner’s professional experience is invaluable as she shares first-hand knowledge of the successes that accompany the use of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) programs, as well as clinical strategies such as EMDR, Prolonged Exposure, Yoga, and somatic experiencing. Her presentation is practical and realistic, with honest dialogue about how to handle both the factors that we can control in a traumatic event, and those we cannot.
Program Information
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Educators
- Marriage & Family Therapy
- Nurses
- Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
Objectives
- Describe how trauma affects the brain, emotions, and cognition, and how this informs the clinician's choice of treatment interventions
- Identify individual and sociocultural features in clients that serve as risk or protective factors
- Analyze the clincial interventions that a clinician may choose from to intervene pre-event, event, and post-event
- Explain re-traumatization issues that might surface post-event, and describe how this informs the clinician's choice of treatment interventions
- Analyze critical event factors that impact the coping response of the client to trauma
- Determine what trauma-informed and body-based trauma clinical interventions would be best for a client based on observed symptoms
Outline
TRAUMA INFORMED CARE: TRAUMA AWARENESS AND BRAIN RESPONSE
- Social-ecological model of trauma impact
- High clinical risk of developing trauma disorders
- Brain development and trauma
- Bidirectional relationships of trauma, substance abuse, and mental illness
- DSM-5®: PTSD, ASD, trauma-related disorders
PRE-EVENT FACTORS THAT SHAPE TRAUMA COPING ABILITIES
- Adverse Life Events (ACEs) Study
- Genetics
- Age, gender, sexual orientation/gender identity effects
- Family history
- Pre-existing mental health factors
- Interventions
- Education on trauma-informed care
- Decreasing secondary trauma for professionals and others
- Utilization of crisis services
- Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program
EVENT FACTORS THAT SHAPE TRAUMA RESPONSE
- 16 critical factors that impact development of a trauma disorder
- Expected vs. unexpected trauma
- Natural vs. human caused trauma
- Individual vs. group trauma
- Physical injury
- Community and culture
- Historical/generational trauma
- Mass trauma
- Interventions
- Preparedness and mental rehearsal
- Psychoeducation about normal stress reactions
- Utilizing active coping skills
- Limit exposure
- Social support
POST-EVENT FACTORS THAT SHAPE TRAUMA HEALING
- Knowledge, access, and utilization of trauma services
- Interventions
- Trauma-informed care (EMDR, CBT, CPT, neurofeedback, and Prolonged Exposure)
- Body-based trauma therapy (EMDR, yoga, somatic experiencing, EFT, sensory motor therapy)
- Video example of EMDR
- Re-traumatization issues
- Resilience: cultural, racial, and ethnic characteristics
- 10 key protective traits
Copyright :
01/26/2018
Trauma-Informed Responses to Racial Injustice: Interventions for Immigrant, Diverse or Vulnerable Populations
Do these racially-charged times leave you and your clients asking: Am I safe? Do I belong? Is your heightened sensitivity toward the racially-charged social and political climate holding you back from robustly treating your clients struggling with racial injustice?
Gain the confidence, cultural competency and trauma interventions to empower your most vulnerable clients! Watch Dr. Charissa D. Pizarro a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years of clinical experience working with diverse clinical populations on trauma and adjustment disorders in addition to extensive research and policy experience on immigration.
You will gain immeasurable insight from Dr. Pizarro on how to address diverse populations AND practical, step-by-step recommendations and resources in providing tactical solutions for your clients facing deportation, violence, family separation, or meeting their basic needs. Upon completing of this seminar, you will enhance your toolbox with:
- Cultural Humility exercises to better connect with existing and potential clients
- Culturally Sensitive Treatment plans that address racism and discrimination within the family, at work or school, in the community and elsewhere
- Tactical tools to help your clients access advocacy, basic needs, direct service needs such as food, shelter and healthcare.
- Resilience interventions for diverse children and adult populations
Purchase today and take the incredible step toward empowering yourself and your clients!
Program Information
Objectives
- Conduct a self-appraisal of cultural competence and cultural humility to raise self-awareness about your own values, biases and privileges and how they can affect your clinical work.
- Assess specific risks and exposures immigrants face before and after entering the U.S. and how they can impact mental health.
- Develop culturally sensitive treatment plans for working with immigrant populations that account for differences in languages, classes, races, ethnic backgrounds, religions, and other factors.
- Apply concrete and feasible strategies for assisting immigrant clients with advocacy, health and other direct service needs.
- Utilize culturally sensitive coping skills exercises and psychoeducation to reduce fear and anxiety.
- Apply trauma-informed practices from play therapy and sandtray therapy to assist immigrant children and families in telling their story.
Outline
Keys to Cultural Humility
- What is cultural humility – and how to make it work for you
- Cultural competency vs. cultural humility
- The necessity for cultural humility and cultural attunement
- Exercises for developing cultural humility
The “Journey Story” for Foreign Nationals & Immigrants
- Discern between varying diverse immigrant experiences.
- Risk assessment of foreign nationals and immigrants
- How to tell your story when it’s illegal, violent or misunderstood
- Tactical tools for addressing client trauma: “Telling My Story”
Appraising Unique Challenges of Foreign Nationals
- Understanding why some clients live in constant fear
- Deportation concerns and resources to address client needs
- Assessing needs related to family separations
Trauma-Informed Interventions for Foreign Nationals
- Processing experiences of rape, war, violence of the past
- Living with the fear of deportation and violence
- Rewriting the client narrative
- Psychoeducation & Coping skills exercises
Practical Tools for Advocacy, Basic Needs and Direct Services
- Assess why immigrants are vulnerable to increased risk for negative outcomes
- “Essential Worker” challenges
- Providing psychoeducation on medical and health needs
- How to help access advocacy & basic needs information
- Understanding food insecurity, shelter, health and other direct service needs
Culturally Sensitive Treatment Plans
- Assessment tools for immigrant PTSD
- Appraising racism and discrimination in relationships, family, work and community
- Creating clinician-client collaboration content
- Adopting language & acculturation methods
- Resilience, social support & specific coping mechanisms
Trauma-Informed Interventions for Children
- Play Therapy for retelling their story/narrative
- Differences in Play Therapy for vulnerable populations
- Sandtray Therapy for racism, discrimination, genograms
- Tools for building immediate & lifelong resilience
Interventions for the Family Unit
- Activities, Family Skills’ building
- How to honor past experiences and rebuild the Family Narrative
Research, Treatment Risks and Limitations
Target Audience
- Social Workers
- Counselors
- Psychologists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Educators
- Nurses
Copyright :
05/18/2021