TRAUMA STABILIZATION AND TREATMENT PLANNING
A Road Map
LIVE, VIRTUAL WORKSHOP BY THERAPIST REFRESH
May 15, 2021, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. EDT
Course Description
Stabilization and safety are foundational principles of trauma treatment. This workshop will draw on the wisdom and tools of the masters in the field to provide a coherent “roadmap and rules of the road” for therapists working with clients who have survived trauma. This introductory to intermediate workshop for psychologists, social workers, counselors, educators, and nurses will guide clinicians to prioritize treatment goals and boundaries that protect client and therapist alike.
She also will support therapists in teaching their clients skills for enhancing safety (including from self-harm) and strategies for affective regulation. The presentation also will outline the framework of the structural dissociation model to manage competing or conflicting parts of self, and the key steps to any intervention for memory reconsolidation. Dr. Gold-Steinberg uses the metaphor of preparing for a long car journey to clarify and integrate the interventions that will help clinicians to navigate the stages of stabilization, memory processing, and meaning-making.
Agenda
10- 11:45 a.m.
Rule of the Road #1: Stay in your Lane
Know which phase of treatment and with what kind of trauma you are working
Rule of the Road #2: Act as Tour Guide or Benign Traffic Cop, not Ambulance Driver
Be clear about the limits and boundaries of your role
11:45- 12:00 p.m.
Break
12 - 1:30 p.m.
Rule of the Road #3: Obey the Speed Limit
Keep clients in their Window of Tolerance
1:30-2 p.m.
Lunch
2-3:30 p.m.
Rule of the Road #4: No Drinking and Driving
Teach clients how to compassionately understand and limit self-harming behaviors
Rule of the Road # 5: No Triggered Drivers
Help clients recognize implicit trauma memories and halt flashbacks
Rule of the Road #6: No Underage Drivers—Wise Self Steers the Car
Introduction to Janina Fisher’s model to facilitate internalized secure attachment between the Wise Self and traumatized parts of self
3:30-3:45 p.m.
Break
3:45- 4:45 p.m.
Rule #7: Create New Pathways
Steps to reconsolidate memories and to make meaning of survival
4:45 - 5 p.m.
Participant question and answer session
Learning Objectives
Differentiate the clinical presentations of PTSD, relational trauma, and CPTSD.
Apply criteria for working at each of 3 phases of a trauma treatment plan.
Describe 2 strategies each for regulating client states of hyperarousal and hypoarousal.
Implement the 3 steps of a flashback halting protocol.
Describe how to use a strength-based approach in responding to self-harming or maladaptive behaviors of clients.
Elucidate the goal of the structural dissociation model, according to Janina Fisher, as being to enhance the teamwork of parts of self along with the development of an internalized secure attachment.
Identify the key steps for memory reconsolidation.
Presenter Bio
Sharon Gold-Steinberg, PhD (she/her), is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Ann Arbor. With over 30 years of clinical, teaching and supervisory experience—including 15 years at the University of Michigan—Sharon is passionate about supporting therapists to thrive in their work and to care for themselves in order to take care of others. She specializes in the treatment of trauma and attachment loss. She is a co-founder of Therapist Refresh and is a certified practitioner of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.
Pricing
Non-profit employee or student: $70
Early registration: $119 (for live event; closes 5/1/21)
Regular registration: $139
6 hours of CEUS for $40
CEUs
6 hours of continuing education credits are available, through R. Cassidy Seminars for professionals who complete “Trauma Stabilization” course.
Upon completion of the live webinar, participants can apply here for continuing education credits. An additional fee of $40 will be due at that time to R. Cassidy Seminars.
View here to see which professional organizations accept credits from R. Cassidy Seminars. Participants can download their certificate of completion here.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program. Refund, minus the credit card processing fee, is available until 48 hours prior to the start of the event. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at: therapistrefresh@gmail.com.