Understand the causes and impacts of trauma and how to effectively respond
Step up your trauma response skills with one of Australia’s most knowledgeable trainers. Find out everything you need to know to be able to understand and respond to trauma in the alcohol and other drug sector in a sensitive and evidence based way. You will come away with clear frameworks for understanding trauma and an effective toolkit in this essential area of practice.
Go deeper into understanding and responding to trauma and enhance your knowledge, skills and confidence in working with people who have experienced trauma. Building on our Responding to Trauma workshop, you will deepen your knowledge of trauma and practice advanced strategies to effectively support people with trauma symptoms in alcohol and other drug treatment.
Learning outcomes:
- Apply a model for responding to trauma to the specific context of alcohol and other drug treatment
- Increase your range of sensitive responses to trauma disclosure
- Understand how to integrate trauma into screening, assessment and treatment
- Recognise a range of trauma-related mental health conditions, signs and symptoms
- Develop detailed case conceptualisation and treatment planning for clients with cooccurring alcohol and other drug and trauma
- Integrate effective approaches for stabilising trauma symptoms, so that you and your clients can get the best from their alcohol and drug care
Who should attend:
This is an advanced skills workshop suitable for experienced and advanced practitioners. We recommend you do our Trauma Informed Practice workshop before attending this workshop. This workshop is suitable for workers in clinical settings.
Facilitator: Dr Richard Cash
'Dr Cash's experience, knowledge and confidence provided clarity around trauma informed approaches in alcohol and other drug practitioner role. Provision of concrete examples, sample questions and cases'
Date and time
Day 1: Monday 9 September 2024 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM (UTC+11)
Day 2: Tuesday 10 September 2024 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM (UTC+11)
Australian Eastern Standard Time
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