Trauma and Neglect: Theory and skills for intervention with individuals/Trauma clinical practice
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Objectives[edit | edit source]
- Engage effectively to conduct work with an individual client who has experienced trauma
- Conduct an assessment of the client's situation and therapeutic needs using at least one of a range of specified theoretical frameworks
- Integrate aspects of your own experience of the therapeutic relationship into your assessment and decisions for intervention with the client.
- Work collaboratively with the client to design and carry out an appropriate plan for intervention
- Synthesise theoretical frameworks with your ongoing reflections on your experience to appropriately manage the therapeutic relationship.
- Demonstrate effective skills in introduing and utilitsing at least one of: EMDR, Radical Exposure tapping, Schema Therapy, Schema Mode Therapy, Internal Family Systems, or other approach as appropriate.
- Develop in your capacity to respond flexibly and skilfully to the individual needs of a range of clients.
Assignments[edit | edit source]
- A self-care plan (500 words)
- Meet criteria to satisfy consolidating level on a range of clinical competencies (500 words equiv)
- A case analysis (3000 words)
- A group assignment to design training in a particular aspect of trauma intervention, eg. produce on-line resource, face to face training exercise (equiv 2000 words).
Topics, activities and resources[edit | edit source]
- Supervised role-play and discussion within small supervision groups to develop knowledge and skills in:
- engagement
- collaborative assessment and goal setting,
- integration of theoretical frameworks,
- one of the active models of intervention,
- reflection on your own experience of the therapeutic relationship,
- conceptualisation and management of your own and the client's responses within the therapeutic relationship
- conceptualisation of your own needs for development as a trauma therapist
- Live supervised practice with clients from your own workplace or The Bouverie Centre within small supervision groups to further refine and develop knowledge and skill in the above areas.
- Inquiry-based learning activity to design an on-line and publicly accessible training exercise or resource. Eg; Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, etc