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

DATE: Register at any time.
DELIVERY METHOD: Online. Allow 2 – 3 hours per week.
CE HOURS: 12
INSTRUCTOR: Jaymie VanMeter, Ph.D.

COMPLETION DOCUMENT

After successfully finishing the course, you will receive a completion document indicating 12 CE hours earned.

COURSE INSTRUCTION

• This online course is self-paced.
• At the end of the course participants are expected to pass a quiz with a minimum grade of 80%.
• A completion document will be issued after successfully passing the quiz.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Understanding Complex Trauma from a relational lens.
• Understanding Culturally Appropriate Assessment.
• Identify key differences of emoting, the adaptive art of articulating emotion, experiencing emotions and their roles in therapy as a client with C-PTSD.
• Identify diverse complex trauma related triggers.
• Differentiate Depersonalization, Derealization, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and Dissociative Amnesia.
• Identify and explore current literature and research of 9 evidence-based trauma approaches.

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1: The Intricacies of C-PTSD and the Differentiation from PTSD

• Complex Post Traumatic Stress is just how it sounds, COMPLEX.
• Symptoms of Trauma & Comorbidities.
• The intricacies of C-PTSD and the differentiation from PTSD.
• Understanding Complex Trauma from a relational lens.
• The nervous system’s role in a regulatory revolution.
• Neurological factors pertinent for re-establishing development. 
• Discussion of the role of attachment, attachment disruptions, and socially constructed oppressive systems.

Module 2: Assessment Tools

• Choosing a Culturally Appropriate Assessment
• Assessments to determine Dissociation & PTSD
• Different Assessment Tools
• ACEs
• Ethical assessment practices with clients who have experienced psychological trauma.

Module 3: The Internal Experience

• Identify key differences of emoting, the adaptive art of articulating emotion, experiencing emotions and their roles in therapy as a client with C-PTSD.
• Understand internalized oppression, stigma, shame, and grief.
• Discuss how to cultivate true internal/external safety and trust.
• Recognize and assist with body entrapment.
• Understand and identify methods of experiential somatization release.

Module 4: Essential Roles of the Therapeutic Relationship

• Identify diverse complex trauma related triggers.
• Microaggressions
• Cultural Relationship & Strategy
• Differentiate various tenants of therapeutic relationship experiences described often as comforting and simultaneously threatening.
• Cultivating empowerment, collaboration, and choice.
• Stabilization and stabilization strategies
• Explore the occurrence of re-experiencing during treatment and intensified re-experiencing in long-term regulated phases.
• Examine reconfiguration of self-protections and self-compassion.

Module 5: Navigating Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders

• Differentiate Depersonalization, Derealization, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and Dissociative Amnesia.
• Recognizing & Noticing Signs of Dissociation.
• Re-integration of Parts.
• Inner Child Work.
• Strategies for assisting clients to engage in the present while evoking implicit/explicit memory.

Module 6: Evidence-Based Treatment Interventions/Theories

• Identify and explore current literature and research of 9 evidence-based trauma approaches.
• Cultural and environmental considerations of theoretical choice.
• The costs and benefits of reprocessing memories and meanings related to traumatic memories.
• How to determine integration of treatment modalities and if the approaches work well together.
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Informed CBT, Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy, Yoga and Stretching, Meditation, Body Scanning, Somatic Therapies, Stand Alone Theoretical Approaches, EMDR.