Objectives
- Explain how trauma informed practices and trauma specific services can enhance client retention, treatment outcomes and organizational standing
- Understand the difference between trauma-informed and trauma-specific services
- Demonstrate knowledge of how trauma affects diverse people throughout their lifespans and with different mental health problems, cognitive and physical disabilities, and substance use issues
- Demonstrate knowledge of the impact of trauma on diverse cultures with regard to the meanings various cultures attach to trauma and the attitudes they have regarding behavioral health treatment
- Identify the 16 components of trauma informed care
- Describe the impact of trauma on the individual, family and community
- Review best practices for trauma screening and assessment
- Develop an understanding of behavior as communication which may have been learned or developed as a way of coping with trauma and will learn skills and tools to enhance rapport, motivation and client activation.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the variety of ways clients express stress reactions
- Describe how these reactions “make sense” from a survival/reinforcement perspective
- Identify ways to help clients develop alternate responses while maintaining personal power and a sense of safety
- Give examples of when clients trauma histories may have triggered the use of : Avoidance, aggression, passivity
- Learn approaches to enhance client empowerment and choice.
- Explore approaches to trauma-informed crisis intervention
- Identify biopsychosocial interventions that can assist in the recovery from trauma.
- Learn ways to enhance mindfulness
- Explore techniques for addressing cognitive distortions
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes