Treating Traumatized Families Workshop

This training provides professionals with the tools necessary to understand the process by which the traumatized systems and children are assessed, diagnosed, and treated. Particular emphasis is placed on traumatized military families.

In this 7-credit hour training, participants will learn about ways of thinking about the trauma induction and reduction process; how to consider the most appropriate assessment and diagnostic instruments; how resiliency and stress reactions are determined in part by the history and current social resources traumatized personality; how to classify the presenting symptoms of the traumatized and determine the best intervention approach from an array of approaches, and; the pitfalls to burnout and secondary trauma (compassion fatigue).

Objectives:

1. Knowledge of the continuum of post-traumatic stress responses and disorders from the perspective of trauma theory;
2. Awareness of the major symptoms of acute and chronic post-traumatic stress disorders, including possible implications for personality development;
3. Awareness of and be able to discuss how symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorders may be misdiagnosed;
4. Knowledge of at least five (5) instruments used to assess disorders associated with traumatic stress and discuss the potential merits and deficits of each;
5. Appreciation of the context of military-related stress and coping;
6. Knowledge of the utility of phase-oriented treatment with trauma survivors;
7. Knowledge of and competence in implementing at least three trauma treatment approaches;
8. Competence in helping clients to establish inter- and intrapersonal safety including self-soothing and symptom containment skills;
9. Effectiveness in comparing and contrasting six (6) treatments of PTSD, and;
10. Knowledge in discussing how the therapist may effectively employ the “self” as a tool for healing.