Child Trauma: Inside and Out

Fee: $65.00

Length: 6 hours
Credits: 6.00 US

Presenter: Robert Racusin, MD. and Martha Straus, Ph.D.

The workshop provides intensive training on child and adolescent posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The presenters' interdisciplinary approach offers participants medical and psychosocial models of assessment and intervention for treating PTSD in children and adolescents. The presenters explore the impact of trauma, looking both inside the developing child and outside to family, community, and social policy.

Goals and Objectives:

Participants in the course will:
1. Become familiar with clinical manifestations of trauma exposure in children and adolescents.
2. Learn the elements of a comprehensive assessment of traumatized children and adolescents.
3. Understand developmental requirements of talk and no-talk based treatment, and the effects of trauma on normal social, emotional, physical and cognitive functioning.
4. Become knowledgeable about key elements of psycho-pharmacological treatment of posttraumatic symptoms in children and adolescents.
5. Develop a focus on competence, creativity, commitment, and connection to foster resilience, while decreasing the traditional emphasis on problems and pathology.

 

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