Healthcare Training Institute - Quality Education since 1979
CE for Psychologist, Social Worker, Counselor, & MFT!!

Course Learning Objectives/Outcomes

By the end of the course, the Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist will be able to:
Trauma-Informed Care
-Name a primary tenant of working with everyone, but especially with people who have experienced trauma and may see themselves as inherently weak due to their experiences.
-Name the three stages of trauma recovery.
-According to SAMHSA's concept of trauma, Name the four key assumptions if a program, an organization, or a system is trauma-informed.
-Explain what occurs if a child experiences an extraordinarily frightening event or a situation that harms the physical or emotional well-being of someone close, such as another family member or a friend.
-Name some actions or lack of actions included that may cause Systems-Induced Trauma for the child when traumatic stress is left untreated, and further harm is likely to occur.
-The three E's of Trauma: EVENT(S), EXPERIENCE OF EVENT(S), AND EFFECT. Explain how is the event experienced.
-Name the six key principles of a Trauma-Informed Approach.
-Name the sample questions to consider when implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach under Screening, Assessment Treatment Services.
PTSD
-Name three effects of trauma.
-Identify three ways a client experience posttraumatic distress.
-Describe three types of adaptation to trauma.
-Discuss three ways for clients to better understand emotions.
-Name three self-destructive behaviors.
-Name three levels of victimization.
-Identify three coping styles for PTSD triggers.
-Describe four techniques in recalling trauma.
-Discuss three challenges in recalling emotions during trauma.
-Name three aspects of addressing unresolved anger.
-Discuss three exercises that will help PTSD clients in gaining feeling of empowerment.
Natural Disasters
-Describe ten facts regarding disaster and trauma psychology.
-Discuss three techniques for disaster preparedness.
-Discuss ten techniques regarding location-based measures of disaster exposure.
-Discuss thirteen posttraumatic responses to children following a natural disaster.
-Discuss seven family functioning techniques following a natural disaster.
-Discuss three techniques regarding crisis and disaster counseling.

"The instructional level of this course is introductory, intermediate, or advanced depending on the learners clinical area of expertise."