Crisis and Trauma Counseling

Crisis and Trauma Counseling is organized by CEmobile, LLC.

Course Credit(s): 15  CE Credit or Hour

Course Description:
The first segment of this course addresses Psychological First Aid, which is an evidence-informed modular approach to help children, adolescents, adults, and families in the immediate aftermath of disaster and terrorism. Psychological First Aid is designed to reduce the initial distress caused by traumatic events and to foster short- and long-term adaptive functioning and coping. Principles and techniques of Psychological First Aid meet four basic standards. They are:

Consistent with research evidence on risk and resilience following trauma
Applicable and practical in field settings
Appropriate for developmental levels across the lifespan
Culturally informed and delivered in a flexible manner
The second segment of this course focuses on Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR), which is an evidence-informed modular approach to help children, adolescents, adults, and families in the weeks and months following disaster and trauma, after the period where Psychological First Aid (PFA) has been utilized or when more intensive intervention than PFA is needed. SPR is designed to help survivors gain skills to reduce ongoing distress and effectively cope with post-disaster stresses and adversities. SPR is based on an understanding that disaster survivors will experience a broad range of reactions (physical, psychological, behavioral, spiritual) over differing periods of time.

The next segment of this course focuses on Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is a components-based psychosocial treatment model that incorporates elements of cognitive-behavioral, attachment, humanistic, empowerment, and family therapy models. TF-CBT is recognized as being one of the most effective interventions for children who have significant psychological symptoms related to trauma exposures.

In the final segment, this course identifies best approaches for the assessment and management of children and adolescents across all phases of a disaster. These include psychological first aid, family outreach, psychoeducation, social support, screening, and anxiety reduction techniques. Multimodal approaches using social support, psychoeducation, and cognitive behavioral techniques have the strongest evidence base.

Learning Objectives:
• Analyze information-gathering techniques that help providers make rapid assessments of survivors' immediate concerns and needs
• Apply field-tested, evidence-informed strategies that can be provided in a variety of disaster settings
• Describe developmentally and culturally appropriate interventions for survivors of various ages and backgrounds
• Analyze handouts that provide important information for youths, adults, and families for use during the course of recovery
• Describe strategies for protecting the mental health of disaster survivors
• Analyze techniques for enhancing survivors' abilities to address their needs and concerns
• Demonstrate skills for promoting the recovery of children, adolescents, adults, and families
• Assess the prevention of maladaptive behaviors while identifying and supporting adaptive behaviors
• Describe the underlying components of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Analyze the implementation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy at each stage of the process
• Assess the key elements of delivery of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Analyze the steps taken to sustain fidelity to and avoid drift from Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Analyze the effectiveness of assessment and management approaches for children and adolescents
• Critique the interventions of disaster mental health services for children and adolescents

Note:- This course does not expire.