Working with Traumatized Youth: Creating Safe and Respectful Treatment Environments

This training experience will address the vital importance of individuals being well-regulated and trauma-attuned in the way they interact with and manage the treatment environment of the milieu. With this knowledge, individuals are empowered to create and maintain a trauma-attuned culture optimizing the staff and youth feeling safe, supported, and the youth better able to begin the process of trauma recovery.

2.75 Social Work CEU | 3 Length

Trainer:
Frank Picone, LCSW, Center for Great Expectations

• Explain what is meant by “Attuned Workforce”.
• Identify one mindset that aligns with the Attuned workforce.
• Identify 2 benefits from being an attuned Workforce.
• Identify the 4 R’s of Becoming Attuned amidst chronic stress.
• Identify and contract Positive, Tolerable and Toxic stress.
• Identify 3 brain capabilities that are diminished when the brain is exposed to chronic and overwhelming stress.
• Explain 1 deference between the impact on brain functioning for a person experiencing a “Single Event Stressor” vs “complex trauma”.
• Name 3 survival skills people with trauma may utilize to cope.
• Identify 2 domains of life that are affected by trauma.
• Define what emotional regulation is.
• Identify and describe the brain state for each of the 4 zones of regulation.
• Identify the 3 parts of an adult reset strategy plan.
• Identify 3 strategies for regulating your emotional state.
• Explain what is meant by a “Negative Narrator” inner voice.
• Identify 3 attuned body language recommendations.
• Explain 3 recommended de-escalation strategies