Prepare for Trauma Work – Foundational Considerations
- The importance of engagement for self and clients
- What you do before, during, and after
- Psychoeducation-creative ways to educate youth and families
- Collaborative assessment of client’s needs
Attachment Considerations (Theory)
- Timeline progression – From Bowlby to today
- Attachment styles
- Trauma’s impact on attachment and ability to heal
Regulation and Co-Regulation - Modeling/Teaching/Experiencing
- Power differential – being in the space together
- Window of tolerance
- Arrow of comfort
- Stations of modulation- Creating a modulation tool kit
History of Trauma Timeline
- Evolution of the language and understanding (of trauma)
Interactive Teach Back
- Current definitions of trauma
- Traumatic events
Symptoms & Outcomes
- Physiological
- Relational
- Spiritual
- Emotional
Best Practices for Assessment – Consideration for Referral and Diagnosis
- Evidenced-based assessment tools - can or cannot use
- Intake considerations – ask right questions
- ACE and developmental trauma
- Diagnosing with DSM™
Creating and Assessing Safety – Interactive with Scope of Practice
- What is safety
- Create your own safe space activity
- Building routines in session - families, school, and milieu systems
- Identify safe people and relationships
Comparing Evidence-Based/ Informed Treatments for High Level Trauma
- EMDR
- Neurosequential
- Brainspotting
- DBT
- ARC
- TF-CBT
- Expressive Arts Therapy
- Somatic therapy
- Play therapy
Expressive Arts and Treatment (Need for non-verbal components within scope of practice)
- Relaxation
- Writing and journaling
- Poetry
- Visual art
- Rhythmic movement
- Use of metaphor
Moving from Surviving to Thriving
- Activity
- Case conceptualization - integration of trauma narrative – story, timeline, poem
- Closure group activity
Sources
- Sample questionnaires
- Activities
Risks and Limitations

