Recognizing and Overcoming the Effects of Trauma on a Young Brain
Each year in the United States, at least 5 million children are either victims of—or witnesses to—abuse, violence, or other forms of psychological trauma. Clinicians and educators are increasingly expected to address the needs of these young victims, but there are many different views of exactly how trauma affects youth and, thus, how it is best treated. Clues for understanding and integrating trauma treatment approaches may be found in current neurobiological research, which continues to show trauma's damaging effects—some temporary, some permanent—on children's brain development. Professionals who work with traumatized children are challenged to stay current with developments in many different fields, from neuroscience to non-traditional treatment approaches, in order to give each individual child the best hope for healing.
This one-day seminar offers an understandable overview of the emerging neurodevelopmental and attachment-based perspectives on child trauma. This approach provides a unifying way of understanding and treating trauma using a variety of treatments based on the youth's neurodevelopmental level and their current caregiver context. Participants will grasp what happens to the brain when a youth is severely traumatized and how to implement both traditional and non-traditional interventions to treat traumatized youth. This course employs a user-friendly means of presenting the sometimes intimidating information on neuroscientific research, which itself can be key to seeing improvement in even the most challenging cases.
Course Content
INTRODUCTION
u Prevalence of psychological trauma in youth
u Common types of trauma
IMPACT AND EFFECTS OF TRAUMA
u Factors impacting the severity of the trauma response
u Long-term effects of interpersonal trauma
u “Trauma aftershocks,” and how professionals can start to have an impact
u The “good news” and “bad news” about the effects of trauma
ISSUES IN DIAGNOSIS
u Diagnosis of trauma responses
• stress disorders (PTSD and Acute Stress Disorder)
• dissociative disorders
• other diagnoses related to trauma
• the “comorbidity” issue
• proposed diagnostic changes in the DSM-V related to trauma
TRAUMA, DISSOCIATION, AND THE HYPERAROUSAL RESPONSE
u What the hyperarousal response means and how it works
u Dissociation and trauma
u Gender differences in response to trauma
u Fight, flight, and fright modes
• what happens in each mode
• why youth can’t use coping skills when hyperaroused
• how hyperarousal can be “addictive”
THE NEUROBIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR THE EFFECTS OF TRAUMA
u Overview of the brain (as it relates to trauma and hyperarousal)
u Brain functions relevant to trauma treatment
u Effects of trauma on the brain
TRAUMA-FOCUSED TREATMENT: OVERVIEW
u The three phases of trauma treatment
• understanding issues in the first phase of trauma treatment
the importance of education (of client, parents, teachers, and significant others)
grounding, coping, and healthy endorphin-releasing techniques for the first phase
helping the youth shift from a “survival brain” to a “learning brain”
when is the youth ready for the second phase?
• applying second phase principles in youth
adapting trauma processing techniques based on developmental level
when is the youth ready for the third phase?
• applying the principles of reintegration (third phase) with youth
family work and focusing on the future
when is the third phase completed?
DIGGING DEEPER INTO TREATMENT: AN INTEGRATED, EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH
u Current research evidence
u Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and its variants
• components of TF-CBT
• creating the Trauma Narrative
• cognitive processing in TF-CBT
u The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT)
• overview of NMT
• principles of NMT
• NMT interventions for different developmental levels
u The ARC Model: Attachment, Regulation, & Competency
• key building blocks in the ARC model
• the Attachment domain
• the Self-regulation domain
• the Competency domain
• trauma integration in the ARC model
MEDICATIONS FOR TRAUMA SYMPTOMS IN YOUTH
u Recent research
u Recommended medications for complex trauma and comorbid disorders in youth
u Concerns, issues, and limitations of medications for trauma
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL PROVIDED IN THE COURSE MANUAL:
u Appendix A: General Principles oOf Trauma-Informed
Intervention
u Appendix B: Assessment oOf Trauma aAnd Developmental Level
• aAreas to cover and tools to use in a trauma assessment
• iImportant, often overlooked, components of a trauma assessment
• Hhow to determine types of interventions to use
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This educational offering consists of 6.0 clock hour(s) of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this offering and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
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ROBERT LUSK, PhD, a clinical psychologist for over 20 years, has devoted his career to helping traumatized children and adolescents. He has worked extensively with child trauma victims and their families, and provides training and consultation to parents and professionals about trauma-related issues, parenting special needs children, attachment disorders, psychotropic medications, and psychiatric disorders. For the past 22 years, Dr. Lusk has served as Clinical Director at The Baby Fold—an agency providing residential, special education, child welfare, adoption/foster care support, and numerous other services to children and families in Illinois. There, he provides clinical supervision and consultation to all of the agency's treatment programs. Dr. Lusk also instructs courses at Illinois Wesleyan University and has been actively involved in investigative research on trauma since 1987, including studies of treatment approach efficacy, and cognitive and school-related effects of trauma. He has published several journal articles and book chapters on understanding and treating traumatized children, and has taught both graduate and undergraduate seminars on trauma.
Dr. Lusk has presented at local, regional, and national conferences on the effects and treatment of childhood trauma. He also conducts a local radio show, Ask Dr. Rob, where he discusses a variety of psychological issues. He earned his Master's and Doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles and has trained in a variety of interventions including cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, couples and family therapy, and EMDR. He has been a member of the APA for more than 20 years, and is a member of the APA's Division of Clinical Psychology and the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, School Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Case Managers, Psychiatrists , Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, School Guidance Counselors, Mental Health Nurses, Child Advocacy/Protective Service Staff, Educators and Therapeutic Child Care Staff, Pastoral Counselors/Clergy, Substance Abuse Counselors, Adoption Counselors
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