Creative Evidence-Based Interventions for Traumatized Children
There have been a number of treatments developed and tested in recent years specifically geared to treating traumatized children. These approaches share many of the same core components: Engaging clients; conducting a systemic assessment; providing psychoeducation; addressing children and families’ traumatic stress reactions; enhancing emotional regulation; facilitating adaptive coping; completing and processing a trauma narrative; enhancing safety skills; and strengthening parenting skills. The effectiveness of trauma-treatment with children is enhanced by integrating playful, developmentally appropriate interventions so clients will engage in treatment. This program presents innovative play-based techniques for each of the core components of evidence-based trauma treatment. Participants will come away with many new and creative interventions they can use with clients from preschoolers to teens.
All orders include the entire presentation with handouts and a CE test.
Streaming videos and audio downloads will be available immediately after checkout
Mailed CD and DVD formats include the printed handouts and CE test in an attractive portfolio
Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the core components of evidence-based trauma treatment.
- Discuss the benefits of integrating playful approaches in trauma treatment.
- Utilize at least two techniques to engage traumatized children and adolescents.
- Apply at least three techniques to assess traumatized children and adolescents.
- Implement at least five new interventions to treat traumatized children and adolescents.
- Describe two techniques to strengthen parenting skills.
Topics
Overview of Childhood Trauma
- Definition: Trauma, acute trauma, complex trauma, case examples
- The impact of trauma on the brain
- The impact of trauma on functioning
- Risk factors, resilience factors,
- Sensory triggers, case example
Rapport Building
- Rapport-building with caregivers
- Rapport-building with children
- Rapport-building activities
- Rapport-building and empathy
Trauma Assessment and Treatment Planning
- Guidelines for assessment
- Assessment sources
- Factors that affect the assessment
- Assessment activities
- Interpreting data
Trauma-Treatment Interventions
Cognitive Coping Activities Trauma Narration
- Definition, goals, guidelines of trauma narration
- Sample trauma narration hierarchy
- trauma narration
- Process questions
- Sensory triggers
- Case examples and videos
- Trauma narration with complex Trauma
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