Robert Lusk – 2-Day, Trauma Treatment Certificate Course

This course provides an integrated, customizable approach to trauma treatment. It is simple to follow and can be easily adapted to many settings.

Robert Lusk – 2-Day, Trauma Treatment Certificate Course

Like you, I’ve dealt with some major obstacles to providing effective trauma treatment during my career. How can I make the most of the increasing body of neuroscience research? How can I get clearer information about the issues that therapy should address? What can I do to tailor my approach to each survivor’s needs?

I searched for a solution and found it in an integration neuroscience, physiology, the stages of trauma recovery, and smaller ingredients taken from more evidence-Based models and customized treatment strategies to address the unique needs of trauma survivors and their family members.

This course provides an integrated, customizable approach to trauma treatment. It is simple to follow and can be easily adapted to many settings.

The integrated model can be used as a basis for tailoring and applying treatment methods that you may already know but have not been able to adapt. You will be able to move beyond the standard script often given for when and how to apply various strategies, allowing you to focus much more intently on where the trouble spots are in each survivor’s life and what actions to take to resolve them. The road map will allow you to help each survivor navigate through the various stages of the trauma recovery process.

In this exciting, innovative, and evidence-After receiving informed training, you will feel energized and have a plan of action to help you use existing strategies and models in a new way to support meaningful and lasting trauma recovery.

1. Recognize the common pitfalls that clinicians can encounter when diagnosing trauma.
2. For the purpose of psychoeducation, explain the effects of trauma on the brain.
3. Analyze the ways to overcome the inconsistency that can sometimes exist between evidence-Based treatments and the real lives that survivors lead.
4. For clients who have suffered trauma, it is important to determine how psychological first aid can be applied in order to protect them.
5. Apply a flexible conceptual framework to trauma treatment that is sensitive to clients’ needs across several critical domains.
6. You can use these strategies to support young trauma clients’ caregivers in issues of emotional control, attunement and discipline.
7. Use a variety grounding and treatment techniques to help clients improve their emotional regulation skills.
8. Incorporate cognitive behavioral strategies to help clients change their negative thoughts into more adaptive and useful thinking patterns.
9. Assess the effectiveness of the different trauma treatment strategies that were used during the three stages of trauma healing.
10. Incorporate play-Clients can use both verbal and based techniques to help them develop their trauma story.
11. To help clients avoid future trauma triggers and safety issues, choose the appropriate strategies.
12. For clients who have experienced trauma, develop a plan to build resiliency. This will facilitate meaningful recovery.

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Trauma Summary of the Research on Impact

• Definitions & concepts
• The ACE study identifies both short-term and long-term effects.
• The “good” “bad” news about trauma exposure
• Research limitations

Evaluation and diagnosis of Trauma

• Assessment of trauma in children, adolescents, and adults
• Trauma-& Stressor-Similar Disorders in DSM-5
• What’s still missing from the DSM-5®?
• Common pitfalls in diagnosis
• My “favorite” diagnosis & why to use it frequently

Address Trauma’s Impact on Neurobiology

• The most important areas of impact
• The 3-part brain (or upstairs/downstairs brain)
• Neurologically-Similar issues for survivors of trauma
  • ”Arrested Development”
  • ”Hair Trigger” threat response
  • Cognitive, academic, & work-Related problems
• Problems in relationships
• The arousal continuum
• Dissociation

Do you have evidence?-The based treatments vs. “Real World”

• What does it mean? “evidence-based” What does trauma treatment mean?
• Evidence components-Based treatments
• The evidence-Based components approach

Points of Intervention Trauma Treatment

• The main entry points are immediate support and trauma treatment.
• Psychological first aid
• There are several stages of trauma-Concentrated treatment
• What can you do if your client isn’t emotionally or physically safe?
• Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: “Gold Standard”
• Case examples
  • ”Amanda”: 7-Year-An old girl who has suffered from sexual abuse and is dealing with complex family issues
  • ”Phil”: mid-A 30s man lost his son while caring for him

Take care of critical domains Trauma Treatment

• The Physiology Domain
• Sleep
  • Hydration and nutrition
  • Sensory needs and interventions
  • Medications, supplements, & nontraditional interventions
  • Exercise/Physical Activity
  • ”Amanda” and “Phil” The physiology domain
• The Relationship Domain
  • The Attachment, Regulation, & Competency (ARC) model (for youth)
  • Caregiver emotional control: for youth caregivers
  • Attunement for youth caregivers
  • Positive discipline for youth caregivers
  • Create the therapeutic alliance
  • Establish a support system
  • Implement routines & rituals
  • ”Amanda” and the relationship/attachment domain
  • ”Phil” and the relationship domain
• Domain of Emotional Regulation
  • Feelings of identification and expression
  • Use SUDs to scales
  • Grounding & self-Relaxing techniques
  • The “Comfort Kit”
  • Add attunement!
  • Apply Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics™
    • NMT assessments
    • NMT: Interventions for the developing age
  • ”Amanda” and “Phil” Domain of emotional regulation
• The Cognitive Domain
  • Teach and practice the problem-Problem solving
  • Teach mindfulness and practice it
  • Disturbed cognitions: The most common targets for cognitive processing
  • Cognitive processing: How can you modify problematic thoughts
  • Use the Franklin Method
  • ”Amanda” and “Phil” The Cognitive Domain
• The Identity Domain
  • Focus on your identity and your sense of self
  • Take advantage of your existing strengths
  • The Life Book approach
  • Exercises for improving identity
  • ”Amanda” and “Phil” The identity domain

Additional Components to the 3 Stages Trauma Recovery

• Stage One: Safety & Stabilization
  • Establish rapport
  • Instruction of the client on trauma effects
  • Plan for safety
  • Trauma-You can focus on specific areas
  • Sexual abuse “Amanda”
  • Triggers “Phil”
• Stage 2: Process the Past Trauma
  • Preparation
  • The trauma story should be created
    • Verbal and play-The trauma narrative is created using a variety of methods.
    • Constructing a trauma narrative
  • Is Stage Two complete for your client?
  • Process “Amanda’s” Trauma (play therapy) “narrative”
  • Process “Phil’s” trauma (verbal narrative)
• Stage Three: Reconnection
  • Consolidate/internalize coping skills
  • Positive emotions can be enhanced
  • Understanding the trauma
  • Facilitate reconnection of daily activities
  • Strengthen current relationships
  • Preparation for future safety and triggers
  • Posttraumatic growth
  • Reconnection “Amanda” “Phil”

Resiliency and Protective Factors

• Research on resilience and protective elements
• The most important protective factors against trauma
• Develop resilience