414 & 514 - Mastering the Craft of Treating Trauma: Four Core Skills

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Underlying all the techniques and methodologies for treating trauma today is a core set of fundamental skills that determine a clinician’s effectiveness in this challenging arena of practice. This workshop will identify and explore in depth the clinical skills that transcend theoretical paradigms, bringing together all that we know about trauma treatment. You’ll discover:

• How to increase your ability to track and respond to a client’s moment-to-moment experience, especially during extreme states of distress that carry the danger of retraumatization
• How to rise to the challenge of negotiating with difficult parts of the client’s inner self that can become activated without warning
• The importance of helping clients access their strengths and reinforce their resilience, rather than allowing them to define themselves as victims of trauma
• How to expand your ability to work with the “radical aloneness” that lies at trauma’s core