COURSE INFORMATION
Loss, pain, and suffering are all parts of the universal human experience. When loss, pain and suffering exceed limits due to intensity, trauma can emerge in pockets of the population. Whether human caused or by the forces of nature, trauma can leave deep emotional scars on men, women, and children that present difficulties in healing. Trauma Informed Care recognizes the universal extent of trauma on humanity and specializes in identifying and treating the trauma survivor. It also provides for the victim/survivor the safety, security and trust needed to again become whole and healed.
This CE course discusses the nature of trauma, how it manifests, its mental and physical effects, how to help others heal from it and how to protect oneself as a counselor from secondary effects of trauma. Those in counseling, social work, human services, healthcare, and pastoral care and ministries need to be equipped with these skills to meet the needs of those inflicted with trauma due to violence, abuse, disaster, or devastating loss. The purpose of the course is aimed to help these mental health and healthcare professionals to be better equipped to identify trauma and treat trauma in a broken and trauma filled world.
Course Code: CI 620. Contact hours of education = 50.
Instructor/Course Author: Mark Moran, M.A.
Email: Mdmoran7@yahoo.com
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This is a guided, independent study CE Course. You are to study and progress at your own rate. There is one objective examination and one written assignment for this course.
TIME FRAME: You are allotted two years from the date of enrollment of the first course in this program, to complete all of the courses required in the Spiritual Counseling- Christian Focused program. There are no set time-frames, other than the two year allotted time. If you do not complete the course within the two-year time-frame, you will be removed from the course and an “incomplete” will be recorded for you in our records. Also, if you would like to complete the course after this two-year expiration time, you would need to register and pay the course tuition fee again.
TEXTBOOKS: There are two (2) required textbook for this course.
“Trauma Informed Care: How Neuroscience Influences Practice” by Amanda Evans and Patricia Coccoma. Routledge, 2014.
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“Traumatization and Its Aftermath : A Systematic Approach to Understanding and Treating Trauma Disorders” by Antonieta Contreras. Routledge, 2024.
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Additional assignments are included with this course.
GRADING: You must achieve a passing score of at least 70% to complete this course and receive the 50 hours of awarded continuing education credit. There are no letter grades assigned. You will receive notice of your total % score. Those who score below the minimum of 70% will be contacted by the American Institute of Health Care Professionals, Inc. and options for completing additional course work to achieve a passing score will be presented.
BOARD APPROVALS: The American Institute of Health Care Professionals (The Provider) is approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses, Provider number # CEP 15595 for 50 Contact Hours. Access information
This course, which is approved by the Florida State Board Of Nursing (CE Provider # 50-11975) also has the following Board of Nursing Approvals, for 50 contact hours of CE
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Arkansas Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Georgia Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the South Carolina Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Professional Registered Nurses. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the New Mexico Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
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ONLINE CLASSROOM RESOURCES AND TOOLS
* Examination Access: there is link to take you right to the online examination program where you can print out your examination and work with it. All examinations are formatted as “open book” tests. When you are ready, you can access the exam program at anytime and click in your responses to the questions. Full information is provided in the online classrooms.
* Student Resource Center: there is a link for access to a web page “Student Resource Center.” The Resource Center provides for easy access to all of our policies/procedures and additional information regarding applying for certification. We also have many links to many outside reference sites, such as online libraries that you may freely access.
* Online Evaluation: there is a link in the classroom where you may access the course evaluation. All students completing a course, must, without exception, complete the course evaluation.
* Faculty Access Information: you will have access to your instructor’s online resume/biography, as well as your instructor’s specific contact information.
* Additional Learning Materials: some faculty have prepared additional “readings” and /or brief lecture notes to enhance your experience. All of these are available in the online classrooms.
COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Know and understand what trauma is and how it effects the mind, body and soul
- Appreciate and understand the long-term plan of healing due to trauma
- Distinguish between the statements of “What happened to you” as opposed to “What is wrong with you” in trauma counseling
- Understand how the brain processes trauma
- Realize the wide spread impact of trauma
- Recognize the signs of trauma
- Respond to the needs of trauma survivors
- Provide a safe, secure, and trusting place for victims during counseling
- Facilitate a sense of trust between counselor and client
- Comprehend the dynamics and misuse of power in abuse
- Integrate trauma informed care practices into agencies
- Apply trauma informed care principles into counseling
- Identify hyperarousal and hypoarousal reactions
- Co-regulate emotional situations for clients
- Help clients utilize basic grounding and containing techniques in counseling
- Prevent revictimization of clients
- Optimize the window of tolerance for healing
- Advocate for victim’s rights
- Know the requirements for reporting abuse and domestic violence
- Access lethality and discern imminent danger for client
- Employ empathy and unconditional positive regard for clients and victims
- Regulate oneself during a counseling session
- Identify one’s own triggers for hyper or hypoarousal and the dangers of Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue and burnout
- Understand the importance of self-care in Trauma Informed Care
- Employ self -care strategies during counseling and when at home
COURSE CONTENT:
A brief abstract of course content:
- Supplemental Articles and Videos
- Understanding Trauma Informed Care
- Understanding Types of Trauma
- Neurobiology and the Impact of Trauma
- Resilience and Trauma Recovery
- Children and Trauma
- Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma
- Military Veterans and Trauma
- Trauma Experienced in Adulthood
- Understanding Compassion Fatigue
- Future Directions in Trauma Informed Care