Explores clinical models of interventions for trauma survivor groups, including approaches with recovery and personal awareness components. Various types of program promotions and intake/admission procedures will be addressed.

OBJECTIVES:

Group Work with Trauma Survivors explores clinical models of group intervention with trauma survivors. Therapeutic group approaches with recovery and personal awareness components will form the basis of this program. Various types of program promotions and intake/admission procedures will be addressed.

WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM PARTICIPATION?

This course will benefit psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, master’s level counselors and other skilled mental health professionals who work with trauma survivors or wish to gain skills to do so.

Participants will enhance their practice specialty in the area of trauma recovery with a specific focus on group work for those who have been directly exposed to trauma.

Participants will learn:

• Group treatment approaches for work with trauma survivors that include:
• Supportive, Therapeutic, and Resiliency Enhancement Models
• Group intake procedures
• Promotion and program development approaches
• Underlying principles of group dynamics
• Addressing the needs of trauma survivors in a group format
• Selecting an appropriate group model for the needs of your treatment setting and client base
• Practical applications of group models with trauma survivors

COURSE EVALUATION:

Students are required to complete all training materials on-line, complete quizzes, read through the manual and other related or recommended materials. Certificates of Completion for the course will be provided once all requirements are met.

FEE:

Canadian $119.00 plus applicable taxes. Students will have 160 days access to this course.

REQUIRED COURSE READINGS:

Group Approaches With Trauma Survivors (Manual for Course TI-205)

Course pre-requisites:

Participants are required to have the following qualifications to enrol in these programs: A minimum of a Master’s Degree or higher qualifications within a counselling type program or enrolment in a Master’s level program with a counselling mandate OR A minimum of 4 years of counselling work with ongoing supervision.

Disclaimer:

In the Clinical Traumatologist stream, courses have been limited to those students with appropriate qualifications.

If we learn that a student does not meet our minimum qualifications, he/she will be removed from the program, will not receive a Certificate of Completion and course fees will not be refunded.

Please ensure that you understand this disclaimer.