Complete this workshop and learn new clinical skills, interventions, and principles to help your clients cope with the challenges of recovering from trauma. Throughout the workshop trauma specialist, Michael S. Prokop, will discuss and integrate the “active ingredients” for “healing trauma” as they are utilized within the Three Stage Consensus Model. Attend and be able to:
Use dozens of practical assessment, diagnosis and intervention strategies
Effectively work with children, adolescents and adults dealing with trauma issues
Implement multisensory interventions to treat the whole person
You will be able to implement evidence-based treatment protocols for establishing safety, desensitizing and reprocessing trauma memories, as well as, resolving/reprocessing complicated grief. With these new skills, you will be able to assist your clients in their journey as they “restructure a victim mentality to form a proactive survivor identity”. With this new identity, you will be able to help clients reconnect to self, family, society and dreams!
OUTLINE
Trauma
Concepts & Definitions
A historical perspective of trauma
Stress vs. trauma: Two states, two responses
The creation of trauma, reactive adaptations, traumagenesis
Small “t” and Big “T” trauma
High-risk characteristics
Pre-natal
Early life trauma
“On Going” vs. “Single Event” trauma
The Traumatized Brain
Neurobiology and Tribunal Brain Model
Activation and hyper-arousal of threat response system
The sensitized brain through conditioned traumatic cues
Dissociation and the importance of freeze discharge:
Neuroception, bodily reactions and biological changes
Trauma and Stress-Related Disorders (DSM-5®)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
0-6 child definitions of PTSD
Reactive Attachment Disorders
Acute Stress disorders
Adjustment disorders
Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
Trauma and Working with Children and Adolescents: The Developing Brain, Body, and Mind
Best practices and innovative tools for assessment
Subjective imprints of trauma
Innovative tools for trauma resiliency
Trauma-Focused CBT for Children
Eight brain-based interventions to use immediately
Rapport, hope and empathy during the first session and thereafter
Trauma, Loss, and Complicated Grief
Grief, bereavement and mourning
How trauma “freezes” the normal grieving process
Signs of complicated/traumatic grief
Factors contributing to complexities in grief
Grief, bereavement in DSM-5® and viable treatment implications
Healing Trauma: Three Active Ingredients
Therapeutic Relationship- hope, safety, and calming presence
Mindfulness, yoga, recovery resources and holistic strategies
Reprocessing/Resolution
Narrative and Metabolization of Traumatic Memory
Cognitive Therapies
Mindfulness informed interventions
Guided Imagery and Systematic Desensitization
Somatic and focusing interventions
Forgiveness and gratitude work
Reintegration/Reconciliation
Reconnection to self, family, society and hopes/ dreams
Resiliency skills training
OBJECTIVES
Illustrate the effects of trauma on the structure and function of the brain.
Determine the etiology and potential impact of traumatic stress on the client utilizing multiple assessment strategies.
Integrate an assessment plan for a client’s reaction to a traumatic event and develop a viable treatment program.
Summarize how grief, bereavement, and mourning are accounted for in the DSM-5®.
Integrate interventions to assist a client in dealing with the biopsychosocial manifestations of trauma, PTSD, and traumatic grief/complicated mourning.
Discover appropriate evidence-based interventions to assist a client in coping with the physical and psychosocial-spiritual manifestations of trauma.
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General Credits
This course is available for 6.0 total CPDs.
The HPCSA has declared that any on-line courses CPD/CEU credited by a certified US board, is automatically CPD/CEU credited in South Africa.
As there are different boards for different disciplines, we at Acacia suggest that you use the Counselling CPD/CEU credits. These correspond to South African credits of one CPD/CEU per 60 minutes. If you choose to use your discipline's credits, please do so at your discretion.
Florida Social Workers
PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.
Michael S. Prokop, M.Ed., CCTP, CSP, LPC, BCPC, is a national speaker, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Consulting School Psychologist, Licensed Professional Counselor, American Psychotherapy Association Board Certified Professional Counselor-Diplomate, Sports Psychology Consultant and is a member of the International Association of Trauma Professionals (IATP). He specializes in grief and trauma therapy, relaxation therapy, rational emotive psychotherapy, anger management, mental toughness training, and more.
As a consulting psychologist he has conducted hundreds of psychological evaluations of traumatized clients and continues to provide individual and group therapy for clients with various adjustments, intellectual, motivational and emotional challenges. His clinical expertise with traumatized clients is based on a long history of comprehensive professional experiences. These include providing support for children and families impacted by suicide, domestic violence, homicide, child abuse, sexual assault and accidental death.
Michael has authored three children’s books regarding adjustment issues and his counseling experiences include more than 25 years in private practice, school districts, part time at The Developmental Clinic, and the rest at Kent State University teaching undergraduate psychology classes, graduate level workshops and also providing psychological counseling services for the T.R.I. Program (Toward Retention Intervention). Besides his private practice, he consults in numerous schools and agencies and is an Adjunct Professor at Ashland University. As an entertaining and enthusiastic speaker, he frequently lectures and provides seminars at state and national conferences.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Michael Prokop is an adjunct instructor at Ashland University. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Michael Prokop is a member of the American Psychotherapy Association; National Education Association; National Association of School Psychologists; and Ohio School Psychologists Association.
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Additional Resources
To order the book, 101 Trauma-Informed Interventions: Activities, Exercises and Assignments to Move the Client and Therapy Forward, please visit our product store.
To order the book, Trauma Made Simple: Competencies in Assessment, Treatment and Working with Survivors, please visit our product store.
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Chaplains/Clergy, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, Thanatologists and other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
Illustrate the effects of trauma on the structure and function of the brain.
Determine the etiology and potential impact of traumatic stress on the client utilizing multiple assessment strategies.
Integrate an assessment plan for a client’s reaction to a traumatic event and develop a viable treatment program.
Summarize how grief, bereavement, and mourning are accounted for in the DSM-5®.
Integrate interventions to assist a client in dealing with the biopsychosocial manifestations of trauma, PTSD, and traumatic grief/complicated mourning.
Discover appropriate evidence-based interventions to assist a client in coping with the physical and psychosocial-spiritual manifestations of trauma.
Outline
Trauma
Concepts & Definitions
A historical perspective of trauma
Stress vs. trauma: Two states, two responses
The creation of trauma, reactive adaptations, traumagenesis
Small “t” and Big “T” trauma
High-risk characteristics
Pre-natal
Early life trauma
“On Going” vs. “Single Event” trauma
The Traumatized Brain
Neurobiology and Tribunal Brain Model
Activation and hyper-arousal of threat response system
The sensitized brain through conditioned traumatic cues
Dissociation and the importance of freeze discharge:
Neuroception, bodily reactions and biological changes
Trauma and Stress-Related Disorders (DSM-5®)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
0-6 child definitions of PTSD
Reactive Attachment Disorders
Acute Stress disorders
Adjustment disorders
Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
Trauma and Working with Children and Adolescents: The Developing Brain, Body, and Mind
Best practices and innovative tools for assessment
Subjective imprints of trauma
Innovative tools for trauma resiliency
Trauma-Focused CBT for Children
Eight interventions to use immediately
Rapport, hope and empathy during the first session and thereafter
Trauma, Loss, and Complicated Grief
Grief, bereavement and mourning
How trauma “freezes” the normal grieving process
Signs of complicated/traumatic grief
Factors contributing to complexities in grief
Grief, bereavement in DSM-5® and viable treatment implications
Healing Trauma: Three Active Ingredients
Therapeutic Relationship- hope, safety, and calming presence
Mindfulness, yoga, recovery resources and holistic strategies
Reprocessing/Resolution
Narrative and Metabolization of Traumatic Memory
Cognitive Therapies
Mindfulness informed interventions
Guided Imagery and Systematic Desensitization
Somatic and focusing interventions
Forgiveness and gratitude work
Reintegration/Reconciliation
Reconnection to self, family, society and hopes/ dreams
Resiliency skills training
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Additional Participant CE
Additional Participant CE must be purchased for each additional viewer. These viewers will watch the video with the main registrant, but will have individual access to course handouts and certification. The standard price of this program includes certification for main viewer.