Trauma Recovery for Children is Dependent on Successfully Completing a 3-Stage Model of Treatment
In order to mitigate the impact of children's traumatic experiences, a proper treatment plan must take into account the complexity of the factors that underlie these experiences.

This webinar focuses on a 3-stage model of trauma treatment and the components needed to successfully complete them. Participants will understand how to apply an evidence-based framework to the stage 1 task of establishing safety and stabilization. Dr. Lusk covers the essential areas that must be addressed before completing trauma processing, and describes how to use evidence-based grounding, self-soothing, and endorphin releasing techniques (including how to apply concepts from Bruce Perry's Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics). Participants will receive important guidelines for doing trauma narratives with children, as well as helping them to make meaningful reconnections in the final stage.

Course Content

A.Core Concepts in Child Trauma Treatment
B.Stage 1: Safety and Stabilization
  1.Issues in establishing safety
  2.What to do if a youth is NOT in a safe environment currently
  3.The Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC) model: An evidencebased framework for stage 1
    a.The ARC attachment domain: building blocks and interventions
    b.The ARC (self-) regulation domain: building blocks and interventions
      i.Using subjective units of distress (SUDS) scales
      ii.Affect modulation building block/interventions: grounding and self-soothing
  4.Applying Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) to stage 1
    a.Principles of NMT
    b.NMT: Interventions by age
  5.ARC: Competency domain
    a.Executive functions building blocks and interventions
    b.Common targets of cognitive processing (from TF-CBT)
    c.Identity/sense of self (self-development) competency building blocks and interventions
  6.Stage 1 (safety and stabilization): additional components from trauma-focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
C.Stage 2: Processing the Past Trauma
  1.Preparation
  2.Creating the trauma narrative
    a.Methods of creating the trauma narrative
    b.Process of constructing the trauma narrative
  3.When is the child finished with stage 2?
D.Stage 3: Reconnection
  1.Consolidating/internalizing coping skills and enhancing positive emotions
  2.Making meaning of the trauma
  3.Facilitating reconnection to daily activities and enhancing current relationships
  4.Preparing for future safety/triggers