Trauma in the Family: Concrete Skills to Achieve Long-term Healing & Stability

Date course created: December 2022

When an individual experiences a crisis, it can become trauma that ripples out and impacts the entire family system. Learning how to help the entire system’s family members process, manage, and heal from trauma will redirect negative relational patterns into constructive and intentional behaviors to restore their homelife.

This comprehensive, 2-day, recorded on-demand training will provide concrete skills for clinicians at every level of expertise. Modeling these skills in session helps clients implement new skills at home, change their interpersonal interactions, and restore healthy dynamics in the home.

You can go beyond individual therapy and get a clear roadmap for integrating the entire family into trauma treatment for results that last. Repeatable, ready-to-use tools, expert clinical tips, and concrete interventions will increase your confidence in working with some of the most difficult and resistant families.

When you enroll, you’ll get everything you need to:

**This is a 11.25-CE noninteractive, self-paced online video course delivered in home study format via an industry-standard online learning platform**

Agenda:

00:00 – 01:00: Systemic Approaches to Trauma

01:00 – 02:00: Neurological Substrates of Trauma

02:00 – 03:00: Trauma as a Disruption of Trust/Safety

03:00 – 04:00: History of Safety Planning

04:00 – 05:00: Safety Assessments

05:00 – 06:00: Risk Assessments

06:00 – 07:00: Implementation

07:00 – 08:00: Protecting vs Preparing

08:00 – 09:00: Application

09:00 – 10:00: Case study

10:00 – 11:00: Fair Intervention

11:00 – 11:30: Incorporation

Objectives:

This training will provide participants clinical knowledge and tools to:

a). After completing this training, participants will be able to review and discuss current and past systemic approaches to the treatment of trauma/safety.

b). After completing this training, participants will be able to state how common systemic models of family-based treatment fail to treat trauma systemically.

c). After completing this training, participants will be able to learn targeting treatment of trauma to children and adolescents through supporting caregivers.

d). After completing this training, participants will be able to practice assessing for safety in couples, families, and individuals.

e). After completing this training, participants will be able to learn at least 2 systemic interventions to increase family engagement.

f). After completing this training, participants will be able to develop and execute a holistic and meaningful treatment plan from a family and relational systems perspective.

g). After completing this training, participants will be able to learn to implement safety plans within session to facilitate stability in families for treatment.

h). After completing this training, participants will be able to practice increasing child and adolescent engagement in the creation and implementation of safety plans.

i). After completing this training, participants will be able to provide psychoeducation to teach caregivers to decrease reactivity due to personalization of trauma driven behaviors.

j). After completing this training, participants will be able to learn how to increase client awareness and insight into the source and manifestation of problematic behaviors.

k). After completing this training, participants will be able to practice using evidence-based strategies in trauma treatment to help families enhance self-regulation.

l). After completing this training, participants will be able to learn clinical techniques to facilitate the understanding and establishment of healthy boundaries within families.

m). After completing this training, participants will be able to learn and practice implementing an operationalized process of forgiveness that is concrete, repeatable, and effective.

Target Audience:

Mental Health Clinicians & Therapists, Social Workers, Psychologists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Counselors, School Personnel, Youth Development Workers, Healthcare Workers.

Instructional Level: Intermediate

Instructor(s): Nathan D. Croy, MA, LCMFT

Material Author(s): Nathan D. Croy, MA, LCMFT

Nathan D. Croy is a clinically licensed marriage and family therapist, practicing systemic existential psychotherapy. He manages a group practice in Overland Park, KS and is trained in Parent Management Training, Trauma Systems Therapy, and EMDR. Nathan has given presentations at schools, churches, foster parent organizations, and businesses on a variety of subjects to address frustration, fear, trauma, and attachment in order to increase healthy interactions and relationships. At Bethel Seminary in San Diego, Nathan earned his masters in marriage and family therapy while providing therapy at the San Diego Rescue Mission for families, children, and individual on an inpatient and outpatient basis. In 2012, he moved to Kansas where he initially worked at KVC in foster care as a Family Service Coordinator before transferring to Prairie Ridge Psychiatric Hospital. Then, in 2014, he was offered a therapy position at The University of Kansas Hospital, Marrilac Campus. While there, the need for families to therapeutically treat existential concerns became very clear, and in response to that need, Existential Family Therapy was created. When not providing therapy, Nathan enjoys spending time with his wife of 14 years and 2 wonderful daughters. His family also has a wonderful dog named Luna (because she barks at the moon).

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