Certified Family Trauma Professional (CFTP)
What you'll learn
- Certified Family Trauma Professional (CTFP)
Requirements
- This is a discussion of the elements of trauma informed care and supporting materials on the nature of how trauma/adversity can impact life and health throughout the lifespan.
Description
Presenter: Dr. Robert Rhoton Psy D., LPC, D.A.A.E.T.S.
Join Dr. Robert Rhoton Psy D., LPC, D.A.A.E.T.S. for the Certified Family Trauma Professional (CFTP) training. This training is designed to improve the quality of care and clinical outcomes by approaching child and youth trauma from a family base. Learn how to capture the resources of a family to improve care and create greater safety and stability for families. This approach not only improves the life of a child but changes the dynamic of an entire family.
There is increasing evidence that child focused trauma therapy will be more effective if the caregiving system is engaged in the treatment process. It is difficult to help a child be more stable than the environment that they are living within. This training is designed to help the clinician more effectively support and encourage families and other caregivers to be involved in the process of helping children recover from trauma. There are many counselors that desire to be more effective in working with traumatized children and families but find it challenging and uncomfortable to have discussions with families about trauma, and often feel awkward and then avoid doing so by overly focusing on the child. This increases the time the child is in services and can erode clinical confidence in promoting recovery and healing for trauma. Young children are exposed to traumatic stressors at an increasing rate in today’s society making it essential that clinicians have the skills necessary to help children and families navigate and recover from these troubling experiences.
Learning Objectives
1. Greater capacity to create safety and stability within families
2. Explain dysfunction and traumatic family patterns
3. Assess and execute treatment that reduces the impact of Traumagenesis in families
4. Explain how trauma from a family perspective is related to Traumagenesis than to specific events
5. Define the part of the brain and nervous system that creates trauma and changes family dynamics
6. Explain and apply the concept of sympathetic system dominance to identify trauma reactions and mitigations
7. List the elements that are tied to aversive childhood experiences that create lifelong impact on people and families
8. Explain the process of how trauma is formed and maintained in families
9. Recognize and state the environmental activators for trauma reactive adaptions
10. List the stages of safety building for family-based trauma treatment
11. List and explain the International Association of Trauma Professionals trauma treatment structure
12. Understand and explain the primary models of family-based treatment for trauma
This course meets the educational requirement for the Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist – Family (CCTSF) when applying to the Trauma Institute International (TII). For eligibility, please visit the TII website for details.
This course is not available for NBCC credit.
Who this course is for:
- Mental health, teachers, probation, courts, child-protective agencies, foster parents, clergy
Course content
- 01:12Welcome
- 00:56Module 1- Introduction to Certified Family Trauma Professional (CTFP) Training
- Preview01:01:36
- 10 questionsModule I - Introduction to Certified Family Trauma Professional (CTFP) Training
- 00:43Module 2 - Range of Tolerance and Behavior
- Preview47:32
- 10 questionsModule II - Range of Tolerance and Behavior
- 00:52Module 3 - Threat/Stress Response System
- 01:57:26Module 3 - Threat/Stress Response System
- 20 questionsModule III - Threat/Stress Response System
- 00:40Module 4 - Applying
- 45:47Module 4 - Applying
- 10 questionsModule IV - Applying
- 00:40Module 5 - Responsibilities of the Provider
- 47:18Module 5 - Responsibilities of the Provider
- 10 questionsModule V - Responsibilities of the Provider
- 00:35Module 6 - Body Based Trauma & Regulation
- 01:23:11Module 6 - Body Based Trauma & Regulation
- 10 questionsModule VI - Body-based Trauma & Self-Regulation
- 00:45Module 7 - Relationships and Empowerment & Resilience Treatment Structure
- 01:36:04Module 7 - Relationships and Empowerment & Resilience Treatment Structure
- 10 questionsModule VII - Relationships and Empowerment & Resilience Treatment Structure
- 00:47Module 8 - Assessing Family Trauma and Ethics in Family Trauma Therapy
- 01:47:13Module 8 - Assessing Family Trauma and Ethics in Family Trauma Therapy
- 20 questionsModule VIII - Assessing Family Trauma
- 00:43Module 9 - Preparing for Skill Building
- Preview41:44
- 10 questionsModule IX - Preparing for Skill Building
- 00:40Module 10 - Clinical Example: Capacity Building
- 01:24:24Module 10 - Clinical Example: Capacity Building
- 10 questionsModule X - Clinical Example: Capacity Building
- 01:14Bonus lecture: Congratulations on the successful completion of the training!
Instructor
Dr. Robert Rhoton, CEO of Arizona Trauma Institute and President at the Trauma Institute International possesses a rich history of experience in the mental health field. Dr. Rhoton has supervised multiple outpatient clinics, juvenile justice programs, and intensive outpatient substance abuse programs for adolescents, day treatment programs for youth and children, adult offender programs and child and family therapeutic services. Additionally, Dr. Rhoton has advanced training in child and adolescent trauma treatment, family therapy, and family trauma. Dr. Rhoton served as president of the Arizona Trauma Therapy Network from 2010 through 2012. Dr. Rhoton was a Professor at Ottawa University in the Behavioral Sciences and Counseling Department whose primary interests were training counselors to work with traumagenic family dynamics, child and family trauma, and non-egoic models of treatment. Dr. Rhoton is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and collaborates and consults with numerous Arizona agencies fine tuning their understanding of trauma and the impact of developmental trauma on the individual and family. Dr. Rhoton has served on the Arizona Department of Health Services Trauma Informed Care (TIC) task force, currently is on a SAMHSA Technical Assistance committee working with trauma and education. Dr. Rhoton also works with Arizona State Epidemiologists around the identifying of concrete markers and the predictive nature of public health impact of early developmental trauma on Arizona children.
Dr. Rhoton's most recent publication can be found in the July 2017 Journal of Counseling and Development titled; Trauma Competency: An Active Ingredients Approach to Treating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.