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Overview of Trauma-Informed Assessment and Intervention

PSYCH 1056

42016
Delivery Options Online

Learn the initial basic clinical concepts clinicians should know regarding the assessment and treatment of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Learn how trauma is defined socially, culturally and clinically, as well as how to assess and identify trauma histories in your clients. Examine strategies to clinically explore these histories in healing ways, including specific interventions to support clients in the clinical hour and manage your own feelings as you hear clients’ stories of trauma. Study helpful self-care strategies for clients with PTSD, as well as psycho-educational materials that can help support clients in reframing their trauma histories and starting along the path to healing. Teaching techniques include large- and small-group discussions and exploration of vignettes.

Course Outline

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Course Objectives

  • Explore different definitions of trauma, post-traumatic stress and the effects of trauma
  • Study concepts of resiliency and coping in trauma survivors
  • Introduce important assessment strategies and techniques when reviewing traumatic histories with clients
  • Discuss basic initial intervention strategies related to working with clients with histories of trauma
  • Manage transference dynamics that can develop in the clinical relationship
  • Use psychoeducational strategies to assist clients in coping with post-traumatic stress
  • Introduce concepts related to vicarious traumatization
  • Explore strategies for managing clinicians’ countertransference when working with clients with histories of trauma

What You Learn

  • Definition of trauma, including common assumptions of its meaning
  • DSM definition and political elements of PTSD
  • Judy Herman’s definition of complex trauma
  • Introduction to psychobiology
  • Assessment strategies, including a person’s history of trauma, disclosure, and coping skills and resources
  • Basic beginning interventions/modalities and conceptualizing a course of treatment
  • Goals for treatment/criteria for resolution of the trauma Initial interventions: validating, normalizing, naming
  • Psycho-education
  • Stages of recovery
  • Dissociation as adaptation/self-soothing/self-care
  • Boundaries in the clinical relationship when dealing with clients with trauma
  • Survivor's transference
  • The importance of managing counter-transference, including shock, disbelief, mourning, scoffing and minimizing
  • Vicarious trauma: symptoms, research, examples and coping

How You Learn

  • Large- and small-group discussions
  • Exploration of vignettes
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Sections

Section 015

Jan 30, 2021 to Jan 31, 2021 Live Online

Course Fee(s)

Fee non-credit

$325.00


Type Live Online

Access classroom-style interactive learning from anywhere in the world! Attend scheduled online sessions with your instructor and classmates in addition to completing your coursework.

Live Online format allows you to take classes from anywhere with an internet connection. Classroom sections will be taught in this format through Spring 2021. Learn more about this format.

Beginning August 15, 2020, you must have a Zoom account to participate.

Many schools are now accepting transfer credit for online coursework, including health and sciences programs. Check with your institution before enrolling.

Days

Sa, Su

Time

9:00AM to 4:00PM Pacific Time

Dates

Jan 30, 2021 to Jan 31, 2021

Schedule and Location

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Instructional Hours

12.0

Delivery Options

Online

CEUs

1.2 to 1.2 CEUs

Instructors

  • Rick Nizzardini

Section Notes

Please note that enrollment for this course will close at 5pm Pacific time on Friday, January 29th. Enrolled students will receive a Zoom link via email to access the course.

Accrediting Associations

  • American Psychological Association (APA) 12.0 hours

This course applies to the following programs:

Professional Program in Trauma-Informed Interventions

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Required Workshops

  • Overview of Trauma-Informed Assessment and Intervention
  • Neurobiology of Complex Trauma
  • Vicarious and Secondary Trauma

Electives

  • At the Intersection of Trauma and Eating Disorders
  • Consultation and Supervision for Trauma-Informed Interventions
  • Co-Occurring Trauma and Drug and Alcohol Abuse: A Harm-Reduction Perspective
  • Culturally Tailored Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment in the Assessment and Treatment of Anxiety and Depression in Adults
  • Dealing With Depressed and Suicidal Clients
  • Engaging Clients: How to Provide Services to Traumatized Populations
  • Evidence-Based Treatment and Assessment for Trauma in Women
  • Improving the Quality of Life of Medical Patients: The Role of CBT and Social Support
  • Integrating Mindfulness Into Your Professional Practice
  • Integrating Yoga and Mindfulness Into Complex Trauma Treatment
  • A Narrative Therapy Approach to Trauma and Addiction
  • Narrative Therapy and Trauma
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Assessment and Treatment
  • The Role of Resilience as a Protective Factor in Treating Trauma
  • Trauma Informed Care and Social Justice: Supporting Youth Impacted by Toxic Stress and Trauma
  • Trauma, Loss, Grief and Resilience: Helping Children, Youth and Families Thrive
  • The Trauma of Loss and Grief With Children, Youth and Families
  • Treatment Considerations for Race-Based Traumatic Stress
  • Treatment Models for Addictions and Co-Occurring Disorders Among Women
  • Treatment of the Traumatized Child
  • Understanding and Treating the Trauma of the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
  • When the Past Is Present: Transference as a Resource for Change

Learn More About this Program

Notes

Departmental contact: extension-counspsych@berkeley.edu | (510) 643-3883

Accrediting Associations

  • American Psychological Association (APA) 12.0 hours 12.0 hours
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Rick Nizzardini

Rick Nizzardini, J.D., LCSW, is clinical counselor and faculty member at San Francisco State University Counseling and Psychological Services, former founder and coordinator of the Men's Sexual Trauma Program at the San Francisco Rape Treatment Center and former director of the Continuum HIV Adult Day Services Center. He is a lecturer for the social work and educational psychology graduate programs at UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare and California State University, East Bay. He also teaches on sexuality issues for the National Association of Social Workers. He has a private practice in San Francisco, where he sees young adults, adults and couples for issues ranging from trauma, sexual abuse, sexuality concerns, LGBTQ issues, depression, anxiety and relationships.

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