What Are Some Long-term Effects of Trauma on the Brain?

This course focuses on educating clinicians on interventions for trauma informed care. This course briefly delves into empirically researched interventions to help trauma survivors achieve growth after trauma.

This course will assist therapists in navigating the beginning steps of starting a private practice. Additionally, this course will explore business basics as it relates to a successful private practice.

This course is designed for therapists who are not trained in EMDR Therapy. Participants will improve their knowledge of EMDR therapy and learn how to prepare their clients for participation in EMDR Therapy with a trained clinician. In addition, participants will learn grounding techniques to implement with their clients.

This introductory course is designed to empower clinicians to more effectively identify the traumatic experiences that may be informing their client’s presenting concerns and to holistically conceptualize the impact those experiences may have had on their functioning. Towards those ends, it will introduce viewers to the current and historical sociopolitical contexts in which trauma and PTSD are understood, the range of experiences that may elicit an acute and/or posttraumatic response that go beyond “criterion A” events, the unique and shared symptoms presentations that may arise in vivo, the array of intra-and-interpersonal factors that both influence and protect against them, as well as the toll these experiences can have on an individual and their communities across the lifespan. The impetus for action laden within the material presented during this course, informed by the understanding viewers will develop regarding the now indisputable, holistic impact of trauma on the individual and our society, will function to highlight the need for interdisciplinary collaboration across the helping and medical professions to prevent and treat the consequences of trauma.

This course will explore the repressive coping style. Specifically, this course will contextualize repressive coping in an emotional regulation framework, and then explore how repressors present in clinical settings, how well repressors cope with severe trauma and loss, and how they respond to clinical settings. A special emphasis will be placed on how repressors cope with bereavement and other emotional trauma.