Linda Curran – Treating Complex Trauma: Beyond Competency

Description Of Treating Complex Trauma: Beyond Competency

Intensify and Expand Your Trauma Treatment Capabilities

You know that building the skills to treat trauma and complex PTSD takes ongoing dedication to the craft and science of therapy… Because trauma treatment is always evolving.

That’s why I’ve interviewed world-renowned trauma experts and collected their insights and in-session demonstrations in Treating Complex Trauma training course…

You’ll get insight into proven trauma processing modalities from the developers of these techniques. You’ll learn about:

• Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy from developer Dr. Richard Schwartz, and Dr. Frank Anderson, vice chair and director of the Foundation for Self Leadership
• Gestalt Therapy from David Henrich, who has studied for more than 30 years, and Dr. Mary Lou Schack, one of the founders of the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Philadelphia (GTIP)
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) from Linda Curran, an expert in the field
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction from pioneering teacher and leader in the clinical application of mindfulness meditation Elana Rosenbaum
• The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study from Dr. Vincent Felitti, co-principal investigator of the study
• Brainspotting, from the developer of this internationally acclaimed method Dr. David Grand
• Somatic Experiencing from its developer Dr. Peter Levine
• Polyvagal Theory from the founder Dr. Stephen Porges
• Emotionally Focused Couples and Family Therapy (EFT) from the founder Sue Johnson
• Compassionate Inquiry for treating addiction, ADHD and more from developer Dr. Gabor Maté
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) from Dr. Lane Pederson, who also founded Dialectical Behavior Therapy National Certification and Accreditation Association (DBTNCAA), the first active organization to certify DBT providers and accredits DBT programs
• Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) from its founder Dr. Edna Foa
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) from Dr. Donald Meichenbaum, one of its founders

Discover what’s been done in the field of traumatic stress, new perspectives on the nature and experience of trauma, and gain a deeper understanding of trauma’s far-reaching psychological and physical consequences.

The demonstrations showing these experts’ skills in action help speed the learning and application of their proven processes to your own practice… So you can adapt their experience to create theoretically sound principles that improve your clinical outcomes… And help your clients find lasting relief from the anger, nightmares, shame, anxiety, depression, and other debilitating symptoms of trauma and complex PTSD.

Sincerely, Linda Curran, BCPC, LPC, CACD, CCDPD

P.S. When you complete this course, you’ll be immediately eligible to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)…

Giving you the opportunity to stand out from the crowd and let clients and colleagues know that you’ve invested the time and effort needed to provide treatment at the highest level. AND your first year of certification is FREE (a $99.99 value)!

What You’ll Learn In Treating Complex Trauma: Beyond Competency

1. Formulate how the mammalian arousal cycle and stress response informs current trauma treatment.
2. Determine the basics of neurodevelopment in early stages of life and theorize how attachment deficits, left unaddressed, continue to impact adults throughout the lifespan.
3. Employ two methods of grounding a dissociated client in session informed by the Polyvagal theory.
4. Appraise the ACE study and apply its findings to clinical diagnosis and treatment of developmental and attachment trauma.
5. Appraise the diagnostic criteria and clinical presentation of Complex PTSD.
6. Role-play a compassionate approach to self-destructive behaviors with clients in-session.
7. Assess the importance of setting firm boundaries in the therapeutic relationship as it relates to setting boundaries can improve treatment outcomes.
8. Debate the current theoretical basis for addiction treatment (i.e. addiction is a choice or a disease) compared to the biopsychosocial theory of addiction.
9. Perform three mindfulness practices; include any clinical modifications for use with a traumatized population.
10. Propose how somatic interventions enable clients to extinguish conditioned responses to procedural memories.
11. Develop an argument for AND against the use of medications with traumatized clients.
12. Appraise Shapiro’s 8-Phase Model of EMDR. Define and defend the modifications made to the protocol when using EMDR with clients with complex trauma.
13. Determine the development of “parts” (a component of IFS therapy) that result from trauma and how their function can be used as a resource for clients.
14. Assess the theory and practice of Gestalt Therapy beyond the archetypal empty chair technique that can be incorporated into trauma treatment planning.
15. And many more!

Treating Complex Trauma Curriculum

PART 1: BIOLOGICAL NATURE OF TRAUMA

• Biological nature of trauma
  • Triune brain
  • Brain/body integration: understanding the brain/body feedback loop
  • Mechanisms of trauma
  • Principles informing state-of-the-art clinical interventions
  • Treatment implications
• Long-term memory
  • Implicit memory
  • Explicit memory
• DSM-5 trauma diagnoses
  • Single-incident PTSD
  • Acute Stress Disorder
  • PTSD subtypes
• Trauma Sequelae: chronology of symptom clusters post-single incident PTSD
  • Trauma symptoms characteristic of early childhood trauma, with Robert Scaer, MD
• Adverse Childhood Experiences, with Vincent Felitti, MD
  • Background
  • Long-term impact on individuals
  • Correlation with addiction
  • Public health implications
• Attachment, with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Diane Poole Heller, and Dr. Dan Siegel
  • Neurodevelopment
  • Attachment essentials
  • Attachment security and strategies
  • Developmental trauma disorder

PART 2: DEFINITION OF TRAUMA AND TRAUMA CONDITIONS

• Conditions resulting from trauma
  • PTS
  • Single incident PTSD
  • Complex PTSD
  • Borderline Personality Disorder
• BPD
  • Stigma
  • DSM criteria
  • Developmental/attachment trauma
• BPD and CPTSD
  • Parallels
  • Distinction
• CPTSD
  • Diagnosis
  • DSM-5 and ICD-11 specifications
  • Distinct from PTSD (single incident)
• Maladaptive behaviors
  • Function of addictions and self-injury in individuals with trauma
  • Treatment principles and strategies
• Dissociation, with Robert Scaer, MD
  • PTSD and CPTSD: “dissociative disorders”
  • Correlation between childhood abuse and re-victimization
  • Treatment implications
• Addiction
  • Myths
  • Nature of addiction
  • Treatment implications
  • Trauma and addiction, with Gabor Maté, MD
  • 12-step programs and the rehabilitation industry

PART 3: STAGE MODEL OF TRAUMA THERAPY

• Stage model of trauma therapy
  • Janet’s tri-phasic model of trauma therapy
  • Dual awareness, with Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW
  • History taking
• Mindfulness and awareness practices, with Dr. Jim Hopper; Elana Rosenbaum, MS, LICSW; Belleruth Naparstek, LISW, BCD; and Amy Weintraub, MFA, ERYT-500
  • Mindfulness
  • Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MSBR)Guided imagery
  • Program breakdown
  • In-session body scan demonstration
  • Mindfulness/bodyfulness
  • Yoga
  • Pacing yoga practice for traumatized population
  • Effects of trauma on musculoskeletal system
  • Use of yoga mudras for self-soothing
  • In-session with Amy Weintraub
• Dialectical behavioral therapy with Lane Pederson, PsyD, LP, DBTC
  • DiscussionIn-session with Lane Pederson
  • Theory and development
  • Systematic implication
  • DBT skills training and tools
• Trauma and medication with Frank Anderson, MD
  • The importance of client agency
  • Employing IFS when prescribing medications
• Somatic experiencing with Peter Levine, PhD
  • In-session with Peter Levine
  • Theory and practice
• Somatic Therapy with Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW
  • In-session with Babette Rothschild

PART 4: TRAUMA PROCESSING MODALITIES

Cognitive behavioral therapy with Donald Meichenbaum, PhD

• Prolonged exposure therapy with Edna Foa, PhD
  • Theory development
  • Applicability
• Sensorimotor psychotherapy with Janina Fisher, PhD
  • Psychoeducation in trauma therapy – utilizing cognitive override
  • Resourcing clients
  • Body-oriented and somatic interventions
• Eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)
  • Theory with field leaders
  • Shapiros 8-phase model
  • Clinical modifications for complex trauma
  • In-session with Linda Curran
• Internal family systems with Richard Schwartz, PhD
  • Theory and applicability
  • In-session with Frank Anderson
  • Theory development and practice
  • In-session with Richard Schwartz
• Gestalt therapy
  • Beyond the empty chair technique
  • Verbal narrative vs. body narrative
  • In-session with Mary Lou Schack, PhD
  • In-session with David Henrich, LCSW, BCD

About Linda Curran

Linda Curran, BCPC, LPC, CACD, CCDPD, is president of Integrative Trauma Treatment, LLC, in Havertown, PA. She provides clients with an integrative approach to trauma and treats PTSD in adolescent and adult populations, including clients with eating disorders, sexual trauma, and self-injury. An international speaker on the treatment of trauma, Linda has developed, produced, and presents multi-media workshops on all aspects of psychological trauma.

Linda is the author of the best-selling Trauma Competency: A Clinician’s Guide (PESI, 2010) and 101 Trauma-Informed Interventions: Activities, Exercises and Assignments to Move the Client and Therapy Forward (PESI, 2013). She is the producer of the best-selling Interview Trauma DVD series in which she collaborated with the world’s leaders in trauma: Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Peter Levine, PhD; Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW; Stephen Porges, PhD; Janina Fisher, PhD; and many more.

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