DATE: September 21, 2020
DELIVERY METHOD: Online
ACCESS: Will be provided to the learning platform by the Registrar within a few days of start date.
PREREQUISITES: None
CE HOURS: 2
COURSE FEE: $50. All course material is provided.
SECTIONS: Participants will be assigned to a section of no more than 25.
FACULTY OVERSIGHT: An ITTI faculty member will be assigned to each section.
DESCRIPTION
In today’s world trauma has affected almost everyone directly or indirectly. Often these trauma survivors are unintentionally re-victimized by well-meaning people who just don’t know how to minimize or eliminate further harm. This 2-hour Trauma-Informed Care course is aimed at non-clinical service providers who work with children, adolescents, and adults in any setting. Participants will learn how to identify various responses to stress; recognize reactions to trauma triggers; understand how to develop and support resilience, and; identify ways of interacting with and helping trauma survivors.
Course Outline
Types of Stress: Positive/Negative
Reactions to Trauma: Fight or Flight
Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
Resilience
- What is Trauma-Informed Care: – Creating Safety; Teaching Self-Calming Skills; Building Relationships
- Interventions and Techniques
- Manipulation or Misunderstanding
- Trauma Triggers
- All Behavior Serves a Purpose
- Maintained Behaviors
- Ways of Expressing Anger
- Reframing
- Vicarious and Secondary Trauma