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