Description:
OPD Points: 10
This two-day self paced online program completes Leah’s four-day core training for all mental healh professionals working with traumatised clients. You are required to complete‘Treating PTSD’ (Day 1-2) before enrolling in ‘Treating Complex Trauma’ because important workshop material is presented in ‘Treating PTSD’ and is not repeated in ‘Treating Complex Trauma’. The emphasis of this two-day training program is upon imparting practical, accessible skills to use immediately with survivors of complex trauma (especially survivors of child abuse and neglect). Please note that this is not simply a recording of a past live event. This is an education package specifically designed and produced to be worked through online, presented throughout by Dr Leah Giarratano, incorporating lectures, real cases, learning quizzes and structured practical exercises to complete in your own time over three months. Your fee also includes access to a livestream of your program within one year. The content is applicable to both adult and adolescent populations. Topics include: Complex trauma. Complex PTSD. Attachment disorders. Personality disorders. What’s the difference/ relationship?, Phased-based treatment model based on best practice guidelines, Building and maintaining the therapeutic relationship, including maintaining compassionate boundaries and managing therapy disruptions and termination, Using the therapeutic relationship to promote emotion regulation• Understanding attachment re-enactment and betrayal trauma in order to work with challenging behaviours, including: ‘splitting’ between care providers; idolising/demonising the therapist; constant new crises; reduced motivation; external locus of control, Practical therapeutic techniques (including exposure interventions and experiential tools) drawn from: Attachment-based treatment; Emotion Focused Therapy; Dialectical Behaviour Therapy; Metacognitive and Mentalisation Therapies; Schema Therapy; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to help clients presenting with complex trauma symptomatology, including flashbacks, numbing and dissociation, emotional ‘hurricanes’, somatisation, self-hate, self-harming and suicidal acts, dysfunctional relationships and substance abuse, Managing and reducing vicarious trauma in the therapist.
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
You will be required to commit a minimim of 15 hours of your time to participate in Days 3-4, to be worked through at your own pace. You will have three-months online access to complete the program material, with printed copies of your handouts mailed to you before access is provided. If you wish to claim OPD hours/points, your record of attendance will be issued after you complete a quiz with an 80% pass rate. You will be able complete the quiz anytime your your access period, which can be attempted the more than once.
Presenter / Provider:
Dr Leah Giarratano
Presenter Qualifications:
Leah Giarratano is a doctoral level clinical psychologist who has developed an expertise in the assessment and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She has been presenting training programs in Australia since 1996 and in New Zealand since 2000. Leah is the author of seven books covering the assessment and treatment of psychological trauma and in the application of CBT.Her latest text ‘Clinical Skills for Managing Complex Traumatisation’ (2022) is available at www.talominbooks.com
