Theoretical Framework for Understanding Trauma
Trauma Informed Care
May 12 @ 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Participants will learn how to support individuals with a history of trauma through the following evidence-based framework researched and created by Oaks Mental Health:
- Defining trauma
- How trauma impacts relationships, neurobiology, cognition, emotions, and
spirituality - Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- The difference between mental illness and a trauma response
- The window of tolerance model
- Fight, flight, freeze, faint, and fawn responses
Organizational/Systemic Forms of Trauma
- How organizational contexts can perpetuate trauma
- Characteristics of a trauma-informed/trauma-aware organization
- Organizational case studies in which participants identify problems and recommend changes based on a trauma-informed approach
Trauma-Informed Practitioners
- Specific examples of practice that perpetuate or exacerbate trauma responses
- Recognizing and responding compassionately to trauma responses
- Practically applying the principles of trauma-informed care
- Preventing burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma in helping professionals
- Direct practice case studies which participants identify problems and recommend changes based on a trauma-informed approach
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