Full Course Description
Certificate Course: ARC Trauma Treatment for Children and Adolescents
Program Information
Objectives
- Analyze the meaning of complex trauma and communicate three consequences of early complex trauma exposure.
- Analyze the role of routines in the caregiving system to enhance a child’s felt safety and stability, and specify why this is important in treatment.
- Characterize how the core attachment targets of ARC apply to the participant and/or providers within the participant’s system.
- Articulate at least one aspect of self and identity that may be impacted in trauma-exposed youth.
- Determine how caregiver ability to identify their own responses to trauma reactions is critical to the recovery process in children who have experienced trauma.
- Employ techniques that enable caregivers to depersonalize trauma-driven behaviors and reframe responses to trauma reactions.
- Characterize at least two patterns of youth dysregulation, including function of the adaptation.
- Employ strategies for teaching children to identify physiological responses to stress to help them understand and regulate the arousal response.
- Employ exercises to help traumatized children identify safe resources and develop effective communication styles.
- Support how consistent emotional responses from caregivers can help establish secure attachment.
- Determine how self-identity can be developed through exercises that establish positive self-recognition and a future orientation.
- Specify how activities that target executive function can be incorporated into trauma treatment to improve impulse control and build problem solving and negotiating skills.
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03/08/2018