Trauma CE Courses for Psychologists

This course explores essential aspects of clinical practice, emphasizing their dual importance in comprehension and guiding clinician behavior in personal and professional settings when working with trauma survivors. Topics covered include the impact of trauma work on clinicians, proactive self-care, ethical and legal considerations, and practical measures for clinician well-being when working with trauma in real-life situations.

The initial imprints of our earliest attachment and trauma wounds can manifest in our work and relationships as we help to heal the trauma wounds of others. This webinar is the second in a two-part series. This webinar presents a model for healing that seeks to help participants identify the trauma and attachment adaptations they developed in childhood and why they were necessary.

The initial imprints of our earliest attachment and trauma wounds can manifest in our work and relationships as we help to heal the trauma wounds of others. In his seminal work, The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk notes that "scared animals return home, regardless of whether home is safe or frightening." This webinar is part one of a two-part series. This webinar gives specific attention to the unique ways that helpers will often gravitate toward the most familiar and recognizable aspects of their childhoods.

Recognizing trauma or stress responses when working with clients is essential. This webinar explores the impact of physical movement in processing stress and ways to respond to the stress reactions of others with supportive movement.

This introductory course is designed to empower clinicians to more effectively identify the traumatic experiences that may be informing their client’s presenting concerns and to holistically conceptualize the impact those experiences may have had on their functioning. Towards those ends, it will introduce viewers to the current and historical sociopolitical contexts in which trauma and PTSD are understood, the range of experiences that may elicit an acute and/or posttraumatic response that go beyond “criterion A” events, the unique and shared symptoms presentations that may arise in vivo, the array of intra-and-interpersonal factors that both influence and protect against them, as well as the toll these experiences can have on an individual and their communities across the lifespan. The impetus for action laden within the material presented during this course, informed by the understanding viewers will develop regarding the now indisputable, holistic impact of trauma on the individual and our society, will function to highlight the need for interdisciplinary collaboration across the helping and medical professions to prevent and treat the consequences of trauma.

Emergency management is critical for all professions, especially helping professionals. This course introduces the history and concept of emergency management and explores ethics, decision-making, and limitations of emergency management.

This course will explore the repressive coping style. Specifically, it will contextualize repressive coping in an emotional regulation framework and then explore how repressors present in clinical settings, how well repressors cope with severe trauma and loss, and how they respond to clinical settings. A special emphasis will be placed on how repressors cope with bereavement and other emotional trauma.

Trauma-informed practice with boys and men requires exploring the relationship between unhealthy masculinity and issues such as dating violence, sexual violence, mass school violence, risky sex, and mental illness. This course addresses strategies and interventions to facilitate transformative and trauma-informed practice with boys and men.

Trauma-informed practice with boys and men requires exploring the relationship between unhealthy masculinity and issues such as dating violence, sexual violence, mass school violence, risky sex, and mental illness. This course addresses key themes related to power, control, and privilege and how mental health professionals can address these dynamics while maintaining ethical standards.

In the wake of losing a beloved parent or family member, friend or classmate, school administrator, teacher, or support staff, children may develop more questions than answers as they understand death's permanence. A traumatic loss arising from a suicide, homicide, or school violence can evoke a child’s trauma symptoms and feelings of fearfulness, panic, and terror. Throughout this training, participants will discover the power of collaborative support and best practices for talking to children about unexpected loss.