Richmont is excited to offer the following Continuing Education opportunities this spring:
Child Trauma Intervention
When: February 27-28, 2015
Where: Richmont Graduate University, 1815 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37404
Presenter: Jon S. Ebert, Psy.D., Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry.
Topic: This seminar will provide an overview of clinical assessment and treatment of children who have experienced traumatic stress. The process of clinical evaluation of this population will be discussed, with review of the most commonly used evaluation tools. Treatment will be conceptualized in a core components manner, with identification of key goals of intervention with children who have experienced trauma, as well as the range of alternative interventions (i.e., expressive, body-based, sensory) which show promise for this population.
Learning Objectives:
– Define common core components of childhood trauma treatment.
– Apply a repertoire of skills for addressing relational safety for caregivers and children who have experienced trauma.
– Apply a repertoire of skills for building self-regulation in traumatized children.
– Explain the role of Self-Care and Regulation as essential in the work with complex trauma & adverse childhood experiences.
– Utilize a repertoire of skills for building developmental competencies.
– Discuss how to engage the Attachment System in the ARC Framework.
– Describe how to engage Self-Regulation in the ARC Framework.
– Describe how to engage Competence in the ARC Framework.
– Discuss how to engage Trauma Integration in the ARC Framework.
– Explain Case Formulation: through the ARC Framework.
– Demonstrate how to identify and prioritize Treatment Planning and Intervention: Using the ARC Framework.
– Demonstrate a basic understanding of the role and process of trauma experience integration.
CE Credit: 15 NBCC CE clock hours awarded.15 approved CE clock hours awarded to Psychologists.
Fees: $225 – This event is not sponsored by the alumni association and does not fall under the benefits of founding membership status.
Trauma and Biology
Richmont is opening a portion of this course in the Trauma Specialization to Richmont alumni and the surrounding community for Continuing Education Credit. This event is not sponsored by the alumni association and does not fall under the benefits of founding membership status.
When: March 6-7, 2015
Where: Richmont Graduate University, 1900 The Exchange SE, Building 100, Atlanta, GA 30339
Presenter: Wendy D’Andrea, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research.
Topic: This seminar will review physiological impacts of traumatic experiences, including psychobiology of the acute trauma response; impact of chronic traumatic stress on a functional and anatomical neurological level; and physiological markers of the chronic stress response and their behavioral manifestations. The course will review current research regarding the intersection between trauma and the body, and implications for treatment will be discussed.
Learning Objectives: As a result of this seminar, participants will be able to:
-Summarize a basic understanding of the links between brain systems and behavior.
– Describe the biological systems implicated in the traumatic response.
-Identify ways self-regulatory capacity is impacted in trauma survivors.
-Identify at least three ways that physiological changes linked to trauma may manifest as emotional or behavioral symptoms.
-Apply at least three techniques used to stabilize physiological responses to trauma and return a client’s arousal level to their window of tolerance.
-Discuss the psychophysiology of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma and begin to identify self care methods for the therapist to minimize vicarious trauma in their work with the traumatized clients.
CE Credit: 16 NBCC CE clock hours awarded. 16 approved CE clock hours awarded to Psychologists.
Fees: $225.00 – This event is not sponsored by the alumni association and does not fall under the benefits of founding membership status.
Note: Attendees are required to attend both days to receive CE credit for this event. Space is limited. Please register early to reserve your spot. Attendees will be admitted to this seminar on a first come, first serve basis.
Trauma Informed Care
The International Christian Alliance on Prostitution is partnering with Richmont Graduate University and NightLight Atlanta to present this four day workshop.
When: June 14-17, 2015
Where: Richmont Graduate University, 1900 The Exchange SE, Building 100, Atlanta, GA 30339
Presenter: Dan Sartor, Ph.D., NCC
Dr. Dan Sartor is the Director of Trinity Counseling Services and Associate Professor of Psychology at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, IL. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Richmont Graduate University in Atlanta, GA. He is licensed as a Clinical Psychologist (IL, GA, & TN), Clinical Professional Counselor (IL), and a Nationally Board Certified Counselor. Dan received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Biola University (Rosemead School of Psychology), and he holds an M.A. in Counseling from Reformed Theological Seminary. Dan trained as a generalist in Clinical Psychology; his clinical specializations include addiction recovery, sexuality issues, trauma recovery, couples’ counseling, and crisis of faith/spiritual issues.
Conference Description:
This series of conference workshops will address Trauma concerns as presented with individuals who have experienced human trafficking. The workshops will begin by describing the biopsychosocial and spiritual dimensions of health according to Interpersonal Neurobiology and Attachment Theory, identifying five characteristics of adaptive resilience in secure attachment. Next, the disruption of secure attachment through neglect, extreme stress, complex loss, and interpersonal trauma will be described, as the workshop defines the resulting anxious, dismissive, and disorganized styles of attachment. Classifications of post trauma disorders from the Diagnostic Statistical Manual—5 and the literature on Disorders of Extreme Stress Not Otherwise Specified (i.e., complex trauma) will be applied for understanding the unique impact of interpersonal trauma on the individual. Thereafter, Judith Herman’s three stages of trauma recovery will be applied to describe and guide the healing process, concluding with implications for coordination of psychiatric (i.e., medication), psychotherapeutic, spiritual, and social services for comprehensive and effective efforts to facilitate resilience and the recovery from interpersonal trauma. This content is suited for beginner to intermediate practitioner levels.
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Learning Objectives: As a result of this workshop, participants will be able to:
-Describe biopsychosocial dimensions of health according to Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) and Attachment Theory.
-Identify five characteristics of health and adaptive resilience according to IPNB.
-Define the four styles of attachment according to Attachment Theory: Secure, Preoccupied, Dismissive, and Disorganized.
-Recognize the disruption to health often caused by neglect, extreme stress, complex loss/grief, and interpersonal trauma.
-Apply Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – 5 (DSM-5) framework for Posttraumatic Disorders.
-Describe the impact of trauma on an individual’s spirituality and world-view.
-Recognize the signs of Dissociative Identity Disorder.
-Articulate the connection between chemical and process (i.e., behavioral) addictions and prior history of trauma.
-Identify six areas of disturbance caused by interpersonal trauma according to the literature on complex trauma (Disorders of Extreme Stress Not Otherwise Specified; DESNOS).
-Apply Judith Herman’s (1992) three stages of trauma recovery as descriptive of the process to establish or restore the five characteristics of health and adaptive resilience according to IPNB.
-Explain the role of psychotropic, psychotherapeutic, spiritual, and social service interventions in trauma recovery, emphasizing the import of coordinated multi-disciplinary interventions to address the spiritual and biopsychosocial aspects of trauma recovery.
CE Credit: 7.5 CE clock hours will be awarded. Full conference attendance required for CE credit. No partial credit will be awarded. Participants must attend all CE sessions to receive CE clock hours.
Fees: Prior to March 31, 2015, the Early Bird rate for the full conference (including lunch and dinner) is $185.00. After the March deadline the rate is $200. For those who are unable to attend the full conference, the rate per session prior to March 31, 2015 is $35. After the deadline the rate is $40. The fees for continuing education credit are $30.
Questions on any of these events? Contact Autumn Stephenson at astephenson@richmont.edu or 423-648-2679.
