Assessment Driven Intervention Online Course
(Formerly titled: Trauma Informed Assessment & Practice)
Instructor: William Steele, PsyD, MSW
This online course sets the framework and support for using trauma-informed and strength-based assessments to determine trauma-informed treatment planning. It provides case examples, research and how assessment outcomes are applied to treatment planning and intervention. It supports the concept of trauma as a series of experiences through developmental periods that result in symptoms/criteria that can be applied to multiple diagnostic categories beyond the narrow descriptors of the current PTSD category. It addresses and supports the Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD) category proposed in 2009 by Bessel van der Kolk, Robert Pynoos and other practitioners. The focus of this course is on children and adolescents six through eighteen years of age.
Learner will be able to:
- Discuss the importance of assessing traumatized and at-risk children and adolescents from a trauma informed, strength-based perspective rather than only from a deficit focus.
- Identify specific examples of how traumatized children and adolescents process and interpret behavioral and verbal interactions and expectations of others.
- Identify the key differences between survivor/thriver; relief and resilience.
- Identify key trauma informed intervention strategies to use with both children and adolescents who have been traumatized.
Required text: Structured Sensory Interventions for Traumatized Children, Adolescents and Parents (SITCAP), Steele and Raider, Mellen Press, available through the TLC bookstore.
Cost of taking this course online is $100. Upon successful completion of assignments tests and evaluation, a certificate of completion can be downloaded. CEs are not included in the price of this course but can be purchased in the TLC Online Bookstore. If you have questions about CEUs email [email protected].
Click here to register for the Assessment Driven Intervention online course.
What Students Have Said About this Course
Your program has provided me with a depth of understanding, knowledge and skill to help victim/survivors of single and complex trauma. The TLC program focuses on taking a holistic view of the child/adolescent/adult and his/her life. A child is not reduced to a diagnosis rather s/he is a human being, a person with a name and a life. This approach humanizes the healing process. When you ask for ones life experiences from his/her view, you gain inside knowledge to his/her internal processes,01 you know and understand how s/he views and experiences him/herself, others and the world s/he lives in. The standard diagnostic process is important and of value but limited if we do not include the life experiences of the child from his/her view.
Joann Lauber - TLC online course student, Cadillac, MI
This was an EXCELLENT class. Dr. Steele provided the best research and strategies for working with children and adolescents. I especially like the new book, Trauma-Infomed Practices with Children and Adolescents. This has been my BEST TLC class since the beginning. I am looking forward to completing the Trauma-Informed Assessement Specialist Certification in February. This class has boosted my excitement, knowledge and expertise about the field of trauma and loss.
LaWanda Evans - TLC online course student
I really enjoyed the course, lots of good information. I still struggle with working with children who have no memory of what happened to them but demonstrate in by their extreme behaviours. It is often hard to see the kids consistently too. I was disappointed that there was no instant magical fix, just like the one that the schools and parents expect me to have!!(tongue in cheek) I am sharing some of the articles with the local school principal in the hopes that they will increase understanding and reactions with some of their students.
Pam Martin - TLC online course student