Trauma Informed Care
Certificate to demonstrate awareness of Trauma Informed Care
This online certificate track provides mental health and addiction counselors (LPC, LMHC, LPCC, LADC, CADC (and counselors in training), social workers (LCSW, LMSW, LSW, RSW), pastoral staff, case managers (CCM) and marriage and family therapists (LMFT) with the information they need to provide more sensitive, strengths-based treatment to persons who may be dealing with trauma.Objectives
- Trauma 101–Provides an overview of trauma, and an understanding of trauma informed principles and practices
- Trauma-Informed Care: Increases awareness of the different types of trauma, their impact and individual differences in the experience of traumatic events.
- Trauma Informed Care: Impact of Trauma: Overview of the effects of trauma on the brain and physical health; social relationships; mental health; and the community/society at large.
- Trauma Informed Care: Screening and Assessment
- Trauma Informed Care: Trauma Specific Services reviews many of the current best and promising practices for survivors of trauma, ranging from child abuse to natural disasters.
- Trauma and Resiliency: Highlights the concepts and components of individual, family and community resiliency.
- Neurological Impact of Trauma: Provides an overview of the human brain and its response to stress and trauma.
- Pharmacotherapy for Trauma: Reviews current practice guidelines for the use of SSRIs, Benzodiazepines, Rapid-Acting Antidepressants, Alpha-1 Antagonists and Mood Stabilizers
- Acute Stress Disorder: Assessment and Treatment
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Trauma
- Cognitive Processing Therapy for Trauma
- Intro to Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Trauma
$149.00 for 365 daysObjectives:
- Identify the components of ACT
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Explore how ACT differs from other approaches to trauma treatment
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Learn some techniques that can help people live a rich and meaningful life
- Explore the problem of experiential avoidance and trauma
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Learn to develop creative hopelessness
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Help clients use self-as-context for commitment toward valued living
$12.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
- Explore the connection between disrupted attachment and adverse childhood experiences
- Discuss how the symptoms of codependency make sense from a trauma informed perspective
- Discuss trauma informed strategies for addressing codependency and abandonment issues
$6.00 for 90 daysObjectives
- Define addiction and trauma
- Discuss why addiction and frequently co-occur.
- Examine the causes and impact of addiction and trauma
- Physical
- Interpersonal
- Emotional
- Cognitive
- Environmental
- Spiritual
$12.00 for 90 daysObjective
- Define complex trauma.
- Highlight the cost of complex trauma.
- Examine the impact and diagnostic issues of complex trauma.
- Continue discussing impact of complex trauma on children and adolescents.
- Identify the function of presenting symptoms.
- Learn to apply practical tools to aid in teaching new skills and tools and helping the patient improve quality of life.
$12.00 for 90 daysObjectives:
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Learn about the effects of acute and intergenerational trauma
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Review risk and protective factors for PTSD
- Identify strategies to enhance resiliency in persons who have experienced past trauma
$6.00 for 90 days-
- Objectives
- Explore information on the use of the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
- Identify the nine goals for psychiatric management of persons with PTSD or ASD
- List the eight steps in assessment of a person with PTSD or ASD
- Identify eight things to be considered when determining the treatment setting
- List three characteristics which would make inpatient treatment a better choice
- List for ways to establish and maintain a therapeutic alliance
- Explain the most effective ways to coordinate treatment efforts
- Identify the types of education which should be provided to patients with PTSD or ASD
- Identify the five goals of treatment for patients with PTSD or ASD
- Identify the three approaches which are used either alone or in combination in treating this population
- List nine issues that should be considered when choosing the appropriate initial treatment modality
- Describe approaches for patients who do not respond to initial treatment
- Summarize the standard pharmacological treatment strategy for PTSD or ASD
- Summarize the recommendations for psychotherapy with persons with PTSD or ASD
$27.00 for 90 days - Objectives:
- Explore historic and well-established contemporary counseling theories, principles and techniques of counseling and their application in professional counseling settings
- Discuss the causes of PTSD
- Examine PTSD through a strengths-based lens
- Identify tools to help patients deal with PTSD symptoms
- Define Cognitive Processing Therapy
- Explore the 12 Session Protocol for CPT
- Examine complex trauma from a developmental and strengths-based lens
- Identify interventions to help patients acquire the skills to mitigate the impact of complex trauma
$18.00 for 30 days Objectives
- Review five central ideas:
- Safety as the priority of this first-stage treatment;
- Integrated treatment of PTSD and substance abuse
- A focus on ideals
- Content areas: cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal, and case management
- Attention to therapist processes.
$9.00 for 90 days- Review five central ideas:
Objectives:
- Identify the symptoms of PTSD
- Examine the function of PTSD
- Identify the impact of PTSD on the person and recovery
- Identify interventions that are commonly used to address PTSD and prevent relapse
- Help for family members or significant others in dealing with a person with this issue
$6.00 for 90 days