Outline

Training Overview 

Each day of this active-learning course includes lively presentations, small and large group discussions, application exercises, and exercises designed to address self-care and well-being of treaters. 

Day 1  

• Traditional Treatment Models versus Trauma Model
• Working within a Trauma Framework
• The Effects of Childhood Trauma
• Understanding Symptoms as Adaptations
• Introduction to Vicarious Traumatization 

Day 2 

• The Therapeutic Alliance: The Root of Healing
• Managing Frame and Boundaries with Trauma Survivors
• Principles of Crisis Management
• Responding to Suicidality, Self-Injury, Addictions, and Violence
• Preventing Crises by Building Self Capacities
• Crisis Work and Vicarious Traumatization

Day 3 

• Dissociation and Trauma Survivors
• Countertransference with Trauma Survivors
• Constructive Uses of Countertransference with Trauma Survivors
• Addressing and Transforming Vicarious Traumatization
• Making Organizations Better Places to Do Trauma Work