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Digital Seminar

COMPLEX TRAUMA: KEY POINTS AND `MUST KNOWS’ – Gain increased confidence in your work with clients who experience the impacts of complex trauma.


Faculty:
Pam Stavropoulos, PhD - UniMelb, Grad. Dip. Psychotherapy (JNI) , Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment, Fulbright Alumni, Clinical Member PACFA .
Duration:
3 hours
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Jun 21, 2021
Product Code:
82949
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

The term `complex trauma’ is increasingly familiar, but identifying and working therapeutically with clients who experience it remains very challenging for health professionals. The challenge can be attributed to a range of reasons including the underlying nature of a trauma (i.e. beneath surface presentations), its diverse impacts (which attract contrasting diagnoses) and that its sources in the past (especially if it relates to childhood) may be distant in time from `here and now’ problems (which can be confusing for clinicians and clients alike). In combination with the fact that trauma of all types is difficult to express in words, that complex trauma in particular is often surrounded with shame and secrecy, and that it may also be pre-verbal, it is no wonder that clinicians are now more familiar with the term `complex trauma’ than confident about identifying and working with it. The good news is that based on clinical, neuroscientific and other research, it is now possible to articulate key and characteristic features of complex trauma, to attune to how these manifest in the `in session’ dynamics of the therapy room, and to accommodate and adjust our practice – both relationally and in terms of strategies and techniques – to assist the resolution of complex trauma including in its severe forms. This seminar presents `must know’ features of complex trauma with a view to increasing the confidence and comfort level of clinicians who work with it

CPD


CPD

PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 3 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



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Faculty

Pam Stavropoulos, PhD - UniMelb, Grad. Dip. Psychotherapy (JNI) , Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment, Fulbright Alumni, Clinical Member PACFA .'s Profile

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Pam Stavropoulos, PhD, is an educator, consultant, and psychotherapist whose most recent work is as Head of Research with the Blue Knot Foundation. A former Fulbright Scholar and two-time winner (2022 & 2014) of the Pierre Janet Writing Award for the best clinical, theoretical, or research paper in the field of dissociation and/or trauma, she has been a member of the ISSTD Scientific Committee and coauthored the nationally and internationally endorsed Practice Guidelines for Clinical Treatment of Complex Trauma (Blue Knot Foundation, 2012, 2019). Pam has held lectureships at the University of New England and Macquarie University (from which she left her tenured position to study and practice psychotherapy) and is a former Program Director of the Jansen Newman Institute, Sydney. The author of Living under Liberalism: The Politics of Depression in Western Democracies (2008) she has written research reports in the community health sector and is a clinical supervisor who specializes in complex trauma-related issues.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Pam Stavropoulos maintains a private practice. She receives royalties as a published author. Pam Stavropoulos receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Pam Stavropoulos is a member of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia.


Objectives

Learning objectives of this training:

  1. Understanding of the differences between `single incident’ and `complex’ trauma and the therapeutic implications of these differences
  2. Recognition of recurrent clinical challenges of working with clients who experience the impacts of complex trauma
  3. Knowledge of key `do’s’ and `don’ts’ in the early stages of therapy for complex trauma
  4. Attunement to both the importance and limits of the therapeutic relationship Identification of at least two strategies for assisting self-regulation in the context of complex trauma

"Ensure you are as familiar with the core features and clinical challenges of `complex trauma’ as you are familiar with the term!" Pam Stavroploulos

Outline

  • Defining `complex’ trauma, its characteristic features, its differences from `single incident’ PTSD, and the therapeutic implications
  • Attuning to dissociation and the clinical issues it poses
  • Identifying `in session’ challenges when working with clients who experience the impacts of complex trauma and steps towards their resolution
  • `Finding the balance’: strategies and techniques inside and outside the therapeutic relationship  

Evaluation and quiz - your payment includes a quiz which when completed with a minimum of 80% correct answers, will enable you to download your Attendance Certificate.

To complete the quiz, please log into your account at pdp-catalogue.com.au and click the orange "Certificate" button under the program's title.

For live webcasts, post-tests must be completed within one month of viewing the program.

Target Audience

This training is suitable for practicing psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, medical counsellors, counsellors and community case-workers with general experience working as a therapist.

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