Trainings
Trauma-Informed Training Workshop
Instructor
Ian Robertson, MSW, RSW
Format
Online or In Person
Duration
2 or 3 Day
Training Overview
Who Is It For?
What Will You Learn?
1
Understanding Trauma and Its Impacts
Unmanaged counter-transference reactions in response to the client’s attachment/trauma transference reactions.
The impacts on the worker: a deeper understanding to compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, vicarious trauma, and toxic shock syndrome.
Trauma and the DSM 5.
Neurobiology and physiology of trauma on the body and the brain.
The linking of trauma and addictions.
2
Building Trauma-Informed Practices
Understanding the power differential at all levels of practice.
What makes a non-trauma-informed system?
What makes a trauma-informed system of ‘care’ at all levels of the agency and clinical practice.
How to develop and integrate trauma-informed care practices within your organization.
Developing organizational policies and ‘Standards of Care Practices’ for culturally grounded Trauma-informed care.
Building ’empowerment’ & ‘collaboration’.
3
Assessment and Intervention
How to respond to a trauma disclosure.
A trauma-informed assessment approach.
How to conduct a trauma-informed assessment.
Overview of trauma assessment instruments to support effective treatment formulation.
4
Practical Therapeutic Techniques
Polyvagal approach to the nervous system.
A ‘Structural Dissociative Model’ for understanding trauma reaction and behaviours.
Understanding high-risk maladaptive behaviors from a trauma reenactment lens and a means to manage ‘too much’ (hyperarousal) and ‘too little’ (dissociative reactions).
The role of dual awareness and mindfulness to treat arousal.
5
Creating a Safe Therapeutic Environment
How to be fully present, in a focused, non-anxious state.
Building safety through non-violence.
How we can create the ‘silencing effect’ in survivors of victimization.
Understanding how stigma influences client experiences within addictions, mental health, and trauma recovery.
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