Trauma Informed Care: A Training for Treatment Providers - WEBINAR

Trauma Informed Care is a practice framework that helps providers to understand and treat clients who have experienced trauma. This webinar will cover definitions of trauma and trauma informed care, explore the impact of trauma on our client populations, look at how trauma impacts on brain development, and address strategies to apply in prevention and treatment.

Goals:

What is Trauma?

Part One
We explore the personal experience of an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury. The person’s response involves intense fear, horror, and helplessness.

• Providers understand the scope of trauma, definitions, and impact of trauma on their clients.
• Review a large scale study that demonstrated that adverse childhood experiences have a significant impact on future health concerns.
• Increase knowledge about “Trauma Informed Care”.

What is Trauma Informed Care?

Part Two
Systems approach; how trauma impacts clients; ensuring safety in all interactions and physical space.Helps us understand how we evaluate & reflect on our practice to avoid re-traumatizing our clients.

• Describe how trauma affects the brain
• List at least 5 symptoms of trauma that a provider might see.
• List at least 5 triggers for trauma.