Trauma Informed Assessment & Practice Online Course
Teacher: 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 purposed 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 which includes CEUs. Upon successful completion of assignments, tests and evaluation you can download a CE Certificate of Completion. This course provides 6 continuing education contact hours. If you need SB CEUs please notify us upon registration as there is specific paperwork that is needed for this credit. If you have questions about SB CEUs email ckuban@tlcinst.org.
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