Adjustment to everything from a stubbed toe to interpersonal conflict to rape, war, and other violence have similar steps in common. Our hearts and minds need to "organize" what occurred and achieve a kind of "reset" in order for those events to not continue to drain our inner resources. Trauma history is often like a computer or phone with too many apps running, it continues to drain and slow things down. This is why sleep, memory, and concentration are also affected. In my dissertation and subsequent work with Veterans and victims of rape and other violence, including criminal perpetrators, I have brought together tools and concepts from CBT, DBT, ACT, Mindfulness, Gratitude, Forgiveness, and other clinical literature to help clinicians rapidly get to the key processes people need to adjust and move on. These tools can be used in as a few as 90 minutes in an inpatient setting, or used across multiple sessions. What I have found is that the trauma gets treated rather quickly, and the bulk of therapy work becomes rebuilding a life and overcoming the habits of depressed and anxious thinking.
https://nefesh.org/workshops/TraumaCPR/viewFREE WEBINAR
Trauma CPR
Tuesday, January 14, 2025, 6:00 PM EST
Presenter: Fernando Alessandri, PhD
Course Length: 3 Hours
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will know how to assess hesitation and promote readiness to address trauma recovery.
- Participants will increase in confidence to safely treat trauma by at least 20% if at 70%, and by at least 30% if at 50% or lower initially.
- Participants will know how to identify and resolve at least 1 key trauma-sustaining thought.
Adjustment to everything from a stubbed toe to interpersonal conflict to rape, war, and other violence have similar steps in common. Our hearts and minds need to "organize" what occurred and achieve a kind of "reset" in order for those events to not continue to drain our inner resources. Trauma history is often like a computer or phone with too many apps running, it continues to drain and slow things down. This is why sleep, memory, and concentration are also affected. In my dissertation and subsequent work with Veterans and victims of rape and other violence, including criminal perpetrators, I have brought together tools and concepts from CBT, DBT, ACT, Mindfulness, Gratitude, Forgiveness, and other clinical literature to help clinicians rapidly get to the key processes people need to adjust and move on. These tools can be used in as a few as 90 minutes in an inpatient setting, or used across multiple sessions. What I have found is that the trauma gets treated rather quickly, and the bulk of therapy work becomes rebuilding a life and overcoming the habits of depressed and anxious thinking.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will know how to assess hesitation and promote readiness to address trauma recovery.
- Participants will increase in confidence to safely treat trauma by at least 20% if at 70%, and by at least 30% if at 50% or lower initially.
- Participants will know how to identify and resolve at least 1 key trauma-sustaining thought.
Agenda:
Understanding Trauma through Research Findings (20 min) - What we have learned from decades of clinical research on therapies for trauma. What works? What gets in the way of recovery? What is the role of a clinician and what resources does the client bring?
The Physical Aspects of Recovery (20 min)
- Validating Hesitation, Demonstrating Anxious Predicting. (7 min)
- Understanding fight/flight/freeze/fawn response & Grounding Techniques. (8 min)
- Desensitization concepts and exercise (5 min)
Validation of negative life experiences (10 min)
Emotion Work (10 min)
- Understanding habituation
- Naming is Taming
- Worksheet
BREAK (5 min)
Cognitive Work (50 min)
- Catching shoulda/coulda/wouldas (7 min)
- Addressing Anger, Blame, Shame, Guilt (10 min)
- Getting Unstuck and Moving from, “Why?” to something more productive. (8 min)
- Evaluating and Disciplining the Fairness of Negative Thoughts (20 min)
- Validating Isolation & Lack of Voice (5 min)
BREAK (5 min)
Acceptance and Adjustment (45 min)
- Anniversaries and Sensory Reminders (7 min)
- Visualizing Recovery (8 min)
- Emerging from the Experience (8 min)
- Recognizing Our Strength or Resilience (10 min)
- Putting it All Together (5 min)
- Disproving Anxious Predictions (7 min)
Final Steps and Recap (10 min)
This presentation is open to:
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives