Treating Trauma: The Pathway to Transformation
What you'll learn
- Compare and contrast evidence-based-interventions, common factors, and emerging trends for effective treatment of traumatic stress
- Identify the common factors for healing traumatic stress.
- Comprehend the importance of therapeutic relationship and positive expectancy (relational factors) for positive outcomes in treatment.
- Articulate the role of reciprocal inhibition, relaxation, self-regulation, exposure and narrative in the treatment of traumatic stress.
- Understand concept and procedure for enhancing therapeutic relationship as method for increasing positive outcomes.
- Appreciate the potential deleterious personal effects associated with treating traumatic stress.
- Examine the nature of traumatic stress.
- Provide psychoeducation and cognitive restructuring techniques for maximizing client engagement and participation in early stages of treatment
- Determine the efficacy of self-regulation skills as a preliminary treatment intervention for trauma.
- Examine the clinical research that supports the imperative factors that influence the efficacy of trauma treatment.
- Incorporate clinical interventions and techniques for the initial assessment, safety and stabilization phase of treatment as well as the remembrance and mourning phases of trauma treatment.
- Develop clinical skills to support and facilitate recovery from complicated bereavement in clients.
- Dualism’s impact on healing
- Key steps for conducting a comprehensive assessment of trauma.
- Assess the comorbidity of traumatic stress in other diagnoses, including personality disorders and Dissociative Identity Disorder, and identify appropriate treatment interventions.
Requirements
- No prerequisites
Description
Treating Trauma: Pathway to Clinical Transformation presented by Robert Rhoton, PsyD, LPC, D.A.A.E.T.S., is designed to give the participant a working knowledge of how to engage in the process of trauma treatment. Focusing not only on interventions, but how to sequence the interventions to maximize outcomes. This training is designed to improve the quality of treatment for those that have experienced trauma. There will be a focus on the active ingredients – the things that are common factors that help all treatment work become better and work more efficiently.
Who this course is for:
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Course content
- 00:36Welcome to Treating Trauma: Pathway to Clinical Transformation
- Preview38:52
- 49:09Basic Physiology of Traumatic Arousal
- 49:58Range of Tolerance
- 01:20:46Threat Response System
- 51:27ACEs and The Procedural Memory of Neurobiology
- Preview32:06
- 02:24:25Key Features of Trauma Treatment
- 49:01Assessment of Trauma and Diagnosing
- 38:36Treatment Models
- 30:19Become the Healer - Being the Change
- 54:15Trauma Sensitive Communications
- 01:42:45Building Competency and Capacity with Narrative to Assure Resilience
- 27:58Healing Neen
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.