International Trauma Training Institute is an approved NBCC continuing education provider. ACEP # 6674

• DATE: Register at any time
• DELIVERY METHOD: 6 Modules, Self-paced Online 
• PREREQUISITES: None
• CE HOURS: 13
• COURSE FEE: $219. All course material is provided.
• INSTRUCTOR: Cheryl Paulhus, Ed.D., LPC

COMPLETION DOCUMENT: After successfully finishing the course, you will receive a completion document indicating 13 CE hours earned.

POST-COURSE CERTIFICATION: For those wishing to pursue post-course certification, this course provides the education component. For all other certification requirements go to certifying body:  Evergreen Certifications

COURSE INSTRUCTIONS:

• This course is built around 6 modules. Each module is presented as a narrated PowerPoint along with additional videos and articles.
• At the end of each module participants are expected to pass a quiz with a minimum grade of 80% in order to advance to the next module.
• Participants must complete the modules in the order they are presented.
• Completion documentation will be provided after the 6^th module.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This six-module online training will cover the following topics:

• What is Trauma and how is it Experienced by Children?
• Types of stress: positive stress, tolerable stress, and toxic stress
• Types of trauma: Type I, Type II, Type III, Indirect exposure contributing to professional burnout, vicarious trauma, and secondary trauma
• Child maltreatment: society’s view of children, child protection mandates, and prevalence of child maltreatment
• Normal child development: physical, cognitive, self and others, behavioral, and he effects of trauma on child development
• Brain development: normal development and how it affected by acute trauma and complex trauma
• Trauma Memory: implicit and explicit
• Effects of Psychological Trauma Experienced by Children
• Central nervous system, peripheral nervous system, sensory-somatic nervous system, and autonomic nervous system
• Parts of the brain: brain stem, limbic system, and cerebral cortex
• Trauma impact on child development: cognitive, affective, behavioral, and somatic-physiological
• Children’s Reaction to Traumatic Stress
• Coping strategies: adaptive and maladaptive
• Counterfactual thinking: cognitive restructuring
• Self-blame
• Meaning-making
• Posttraumatic growth
• Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment
• Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM): history, changes in DSM-5
• Comorbidity
• Evidence-based assessment instruments: administering, interpreting, and use in treatment
• Planning
• History of trauma treatment with children: TF-CBT, family therapy, play therapy, and expressive arts therapy
• Other Treatment Considerations
• Role of the non-offending caregiver: effects of trauma, family dysfunction, and attachment
• Engaging children and caregivers: the first session, duration of treatment, and treatment planning
• Ethical issues

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