AASW Webinar Recording | From Trauma to Healing - Approaching PTSD and CPTSD Treatment Differently

Capability Levels: Emerging; Evolving

For social workers, having a thorough knowledge of trauma is crucial, as they often encounter clients impacted by trauma in various settings. This webinar is designed to deepen your understanding of the key differences between PTSD and CPTSD, enabling you to make more accurate assessments and provide effective interventions or referrals.

In this webinar, you will learn about the Three Phased Approach to trauma treatment, gaining insight into how different client histories can affect the treatment process. You’ll also become familiar with various assessment tools and methods. Drawing from practices like EMDR, you will learn to distinguish between PTSD and CPTSD, which can significantly influence a client’s path to recovery.

Who should register?

This webinar is designed for Social Workers seeking to enhance their knowledge and skills in working with clients experiencing PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and CPTSD (Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). This training focuses on developing the expertise of practitioners already engaged in trauma work with clients across various contexts. It is also valuable for Social Workers who may not directly address trauma but wish to deepen their understanding of trauma, improving client interactions, enriching clinical practice, and facilitating appropriate referrals.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Articulate the different forms of empathic engagement and how they can impact social workers professional and personal responses to the work
• Understand the importance of proactively addressing the restorative and supportive aspects of supervision
• Critically analyse the boundaries between counselling and supervision

AASW Credential: Mental Health (Focussed Psychological Strategies)

Testimonials

• "Dr Carrington's presentation provided me with many valuable and practical tools, as well as an initial treatment framework to guide me in my daily work with clients who present with a trauma history."
• "Great training! Ann is very knowledgeable and she draws on her practice a lot during the session which kept it very grounded."
• "Excellent training, so informative and interesting."
• "This session really improved my understanding of working in the PTSD/cPTSD sphere. I built a greater understanding of the time needed and different methods that can be used."