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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
$72.00 for 120 daysObjectives
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Identify the organizational costs of employee turnover
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Define trauma
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Explore the effects of trauma and HPA-Axis dysregulation
- Identify problematic employee behaviors and explore how they might relate to prior trauma
- Discuss sources of trauma (or trauma re-enactment) in the workplace
- Explain what a trauma organized system is.
- Explain how trauma contributes to employee stress, behavioral issues and turnover.
- Identify at least 10 common workplace stressors and bad habits that contribute to turnover
- Explain how trauma informed processes are at work and need to be addressed not only in clients, but also staff (mitigating trauma)
- Give at least three examples of behavior as a form of communication
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Describe characteristics of healthy organizations
- Identify interventions for sources of workplace stress and turnover
- Effectively use the psychological flexibility matrix to chart helpful and unhelpful responses to situations
- Explain behavioral principles underlying behavior and behavior change.
- Demonstrate ability to explore the benefits and drawbacks of all behaviors to better understand how to motivate change.Learn techniques to create a healthy trauma-informed organizational culture that inspires growth and reduces turnover.
- Learn about the SELF Model (Safety, Emotional Management, Loss, Future) and apply it to workplace events and employee behavior
- Use the SELF Model to solve complex problems and develop a sense of purpose instead of abandoning the organization.
- Learn ways to encourage people to grow and adapt to change
- Provide at least 3 examples of activities to help staff create a vision of a healthy workplace and rewarding career that inspires purposeful action
- Identify at least 5 ways to demonstrate a that diversity and participation is valued
- Discuss ways to build a culture of democracy
- Give at least 3 examples of ways to model nonviolence and enhance safety
- Define emotional intelligence
- Discuss the benefits of emotional regulation
- Explain the benefits and process of developing a system of open communication
- Develop a plan for how to create a commitment to growth and change based in social responsibility in their work settings
- Demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics of healthy organizations and how to use principles of motivation and behavior change to encourage these characteristics.
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Learn the principles of motivational interviewing
- Demonstrate the ability to effectively use motivational interviewing with staff to address factors that impair motivation
- Describe at least 3 interventions that can be used to enhance the development of a staff community
- Explain the principles of positive, strengths-based management and apply those principles to scenarios based on current or past staff issues.
$60.00 for 120 days-
Objectives:
- Explore the similarities between grief, traumatic reactions and personality disordered symptoms.
- Explore possible etiology of symptoms
- Change the language from why are you doing this, to How does this make sense?/What happened to you?
$6.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Define "What is Trauma"
- Explore why trauma informed care is important
- Learn the 3 key elements to a trauma informed approach: Realizing, recognizing and responding
- Identify trauma informed intervention and treatment principles
- Learn how to anticipate the interplay between treatment elements and clients' trauma histories
- Identify the 11 cross-cutting factors of culture
$9.00 for 90 days Objectives:
- Define personality disorders
- Identify the basic characteristics of personality disorders
- Explore the characteristics of the "Addicted Person"
- Compare and contrast common symptoms of personality disorders with the "addicted person" and their functions
- For each personality disorder explore the following: The behaviors, the benefits to the behaviors, the origins of the behaviors, effects of the behaviors on others and potential interventions
$12.00 for 90 days- Define personality disorders
- Contact Hours: 10
Facilitator: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Objectives
- Explore the interaction between psychotropic Medications and HIV medications
- Identify Drug-Drug Interactions Between ARV Agents, Medications Used in Substance Use Treatment, and Recreational Drugs
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Explore factors related to treatment compliance HAART with mental
health disorders including intensity of the mood disorder, somatic
symptoms and social support quality.
- Learn about cognitive disorders including HIV related dementia and HIV
- Identify risk factors for suicidality in people with HIV
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Review common somatic symptoms reported by people with HIV or on HAART
and ways the mental health professional can assist the patient
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Review the impact of Depression and Mania on the HIV positive patient
and their effect on treatment compliance and disease progression
$30.00 for 90 days - Explore the interaction between psychotropic Medications and HIV medications
Objectives
- Prevalence
- Overview of Human Trafficking
- Biopsychosocial Needs of Survivors
- Barriers to Care
$12.00 for 90 days- Objectives
- Substance Use Among Adolescents: Consequences & Treatment Needs
- Tailoring Treatment to the Adolescent's Problem
- General Program Characteristics
- Youths With Distinctive Treatment Needs
- Treatment in the Juvenile Justice System
- Homeless and Precariously Housed Youths
- Homosexual, Bisexual, and Transgendered Youths
- Youths With Coexisting Disorders
$30.00 for 90 days - Objectives:
- Learn how to create a basic treatment plan
- Identify the parts of a treatment plan including problem, goal statement and intermediate objectives
- Identify methods of gathering information for the plan using solution-focused methods
- Identify common barriers to successful treatment plan implementation
$30.00 for 90 days Objective
- Describe how the treatment plan and the integrated summary are related
- Learn how to use the goals identified in the integrated summary to drive the treatment plan
- Identify ways to tailor treatment plan goals to meet the Strengths, Needs, Attitudes and Preferences of your patient
- Discuss how to use coaching/training skills designed for mental health professionals to teach clients how to formulate their own goals and objectives
$6.00 for 90 days