By attending this training participants will:
- Understand the relationship between complex trauma, neurobiology, development
- Recognise hyper and hypo-arousal; learn how to work within window of tolerance
- Learn how to work with implicit and explicit memory, non-verbal cues and the body
- Define the core features of phased treatment; ‘bottom up’ and ‘top down’
- Explore how to attune to clients – strategies for building self-regulation; working with attachment issues and dissociative presentations – therapist as secure base
- Be alerted to ways trauma can be communicated – embodied, enacted, evoked
- Develop strategies for working effectively across phases of treatment
- Learn to utilise transference/countertransference to optimise therapeutic outcomes
- Learn risks of re-traumatisation/vicarious traumatisation; strategies to minimise them; ethical imperative for self-care and self-awareness
Material presented in the training is comprehensive, and draws on the research base of the Blue Knot Foundation Practice Guidelines for Treatment of Complex Trauma and Trauma Informed Care and Service Delivery www.blueknot.org.au/guidelines
Suitable Audience:
Psychologists, clinical psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists, mental health nurses, social workers, general practitioners, psychiatrists working in therapeutic contexts with adults survivors of complex trauma
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