Trauma Informed Care Conference 

 

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This conference aims to educate licensed mental health practitioners on the differences and nuances of treating clients with crime-related trauma, as well as an overview of the criminal trial process.  The Conference will provide practitioners with a toolkit of best practices for treatment and recovery, as well as ethical considerations for treating victims of crime.  

Contact hours are offered for each session.

This event is sponsored by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund in partnership with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, the Department of Health Professions and Child Savers.

Cost is $20

Continental break and lunch will be provided.

Conference Agenda

 8-8:30am Registration/Breakfast

 8:30-9:15am Trauma to Trial (1 contact hour)- Nancy Oglesby, Esq

Presentation Description: It’s not like Law and Order.  This session will be an overview of the criminal justice system presented so non-lawyers can understand it.  It will include information about how a criminal case enters the system and works its way through the often long and tedious process.  A special focus will be given to cases that involve victims of trauma and the extra challenges those cases bring to both the victim and the prosecutor.  This will be an interactive session where questions are welcomed!

 

9:30-10:30am- Ethics Part 1 (1 contact hour)- Michelle Gillette, PhD

Presentation Description: This highly interactive, case-based ethics seminar will provide attendees with the opportunity to identify, analyze, and resolve a series of ethical issues that arise regarding trauma informed care.  Example topics will include the nature of the provider-recipient relationship and the ethics of countertransference, conflicts between provider and recipient needs, confidentiality, and the ethics of punishment and the response to victimization.

 

10:45-11:45 Trauma Informed Care (1 contact hour)- Roger Fallot, PhD

Presentation Description: Human service program cultures become trauma-informed by thoroughly incorporating, in all aspects of service delivery and the physical setting, an understanding of the prevalence and impact of trauma and the complex paths to healing and recovery.  Building on key values of safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration, and empowerment, trauma-informed approaches are designed specifically to be welcoming and hospitable for all individuals, including staff members. This presentation is designed to offer an overview of the central conceptual and practical changes that attend trauma-informed modifications in agency culture and services.

 12-12:45pm Lunch

 1-2 Ethics Part 2 (1 contact hour)- Michael Gillette, PhD

Presentation Description: This highly interactive, case-based ethics seminar will provide attendees with the opportunity to identify, analyze, and resolve a series of ethical issues that arise regarding trauma informed care.  Example topics will include the nature of the provider-recipient relationship and the ethics of countertransference, conflicts between provider and recipient needs, confidentiality, and the ethics of punishment and the response to victimization.

 2-5 Recovery (3 contact hours)- Roger Fallot, PhD

Presentation Description: People rarely experience single traumatic events in their lifetimes.  Rather, trauma tends to occur repeatedly or in clusters of events, making PTSD a very limited lens through which to view the kinds of adaptations to trauma exposure individuals usually make.  For this reason, the notion of complex trauma has developed to explain the diversity and depth of human responses to trauma. Especially for those who have suffered childhood abuse, complex trauma offers a fuller explanation of their coping attempts and the skills and vulnerabilities that attend them.

 This workshop will explore the definition of complex trauma, its frequent origins in adverse childhood experiences, and the equally diverse ways in which people recover from such trauma.  Reference will be made to a variety of trauma-specific interventions that have proven helpful in addressing complex trauma, including the Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model (TREM for women and M-TREM for men).

Cancellations must be made no later than five business days prior to the program for a full refund. After
this date, no cash refunds will be granted. Substitutions are welcome.

 

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