Trauma-Informed Skills for Dealing With Traumatized Youth
What you'll learn
- Learn the impact of trauma on emotions, thinking and behavior
- Understand that many disruptive behaviors are biologically correct
- How can parents and others improve success in working with children
Requirements
- No prerequisites
Description
For someone who has a history of trauma, toxic stress and adversity; counselors and medical offices, schools, neighborhoods, friendships, and workplaces can all be dangerous environments fraught with triggers and sensitives that make it hard to cope. Trauma-informed care is how we change how we interact and relate to others to improve their chances of success and functioning in these settings.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone interested in working with foster or adoptive children
Course content
- 00:14Welcome
- Preview15:24
- 44:31Video 2
- Preview14:06
- 32:16Vdieo 4
- 29:54Video 5
- 01:15Congratulations 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.