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