A Practical Guide: Using CBT for Childhood Complex Trauma
Learn how to understand and engage with clients who have experienced complex trauma. This concise course offers tried and tested cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to support children and young people in better understanding their thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Ideal for beginning practitioners, community workers, and anyone interested in increasing their knowledge of complex trauma and CBT. Gain the confidence to deliver effective support to clients and loved ones. Perfect for beginner social work students and professionals new to CBT approaches with complex trauma.
What you’ll learn
- Understand childhood complex trauma
- Identify signs of complex trauma in young people
- Explore concepts of complex trauma with reflection
- Explore complex trauma with children/young people/clients
- Practice strategies for exploring complex trauma with clients
- Understand strategies for discussing complex trauma
The art of understanding and engaging with clients who suffer from complex trauma is often viewed as a complicated approach reserved for clinicians. This course is designed to support you as a beginning practitioner, empathizer, friend, family member, community worker or academic in understanding the background of complex trauma and subsequently using tried and tested cognitive behavioral therapy techniques and tools to support children and young people to better understand their thoughts, feelings and emotions.
This course is designed to be concise and to the point and in just under an hour, you will be able to:
Define complex trauma compared to traumatic events
Identify warning signs of complex trauma for children and young people
Develop your own reflective practice
Describe Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Identify the foundations of CBT and the underpinning theories
Recognise the importance of implementation of CBT for psycho-emotional growth and development
Be introduced to tried and tested tools which work when engaging with children and young people in exploring and clarifying trauma
Following this course, you will be able to deliver all of the above in a confident manner with clients and loved ones alike.
So who is this course for?
Beginning practitioners in allied health
Community care workers looking to expand their knowledge and understanding
People who want a step by step system which works
Individuals with loved ones who have experienced complex trauma
Individuals with an interest in complex trauma and CBT
Individuals who was to increase their confidence and knowledge of complex trauma and CBT
Who this course is for:
- Beginner Social Work students
- Those working with clients with complex trauma
- Professionals new to CBT approaches with complex trauma