Trauma-Informed Care for Professionals Working with Youth

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Learn trauma-informed care by a leading expert in working with teenagers and join a community of thousands from literally all over the world! If you are a therapist, educator, mentor, coach, or another youth professional, this course is for you! Completely online, affordable, lifetime access! Access from any device with internet!

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Course Syllabus

Get oriented to the course, learn the basic definitions of and experiences that lead to trauma, and reflect on potential experiences of trauma with your youth.

  • Lesson 1: Introduction to the course
  • Lesson 2: What is Trauma? (Part 1)
  • Lesson 3: What is Trauma? (Part 2)
  • Lesson 4: PTSD Defined
  • Lesson 5: Beyond PTSD
  • Lesson 6: Week 1 Practice Assignment (ACE Worksheet)

Trauma not only affects the mind, but the body too. In this week we learn about the effects of trauma on the brain and body.

  • Lesson 1: Trauma and the Brain (Part 1)
  • Lesson 2: Trauma and the Brain (Part 2)
  • Lesson 3: Week 2 Practice Assignment (Hindbrain Breathing)
  • Lesson 4: Fight, Flight, Freeze (Part 1)
  • Lesson 5: Fight, Flight, Freeze (Part 2)
  • Lesson 6: Mid-term quiz

The central question answered in this module is, “how does trauma manifest over time and behaviorally with our youth?” Learn how to look for signs of traumatic experience and conceptualize via a trauma-informed lens.

  • Lesson 1: Introduction to Traumatic Adaptations (Part 1)
  • Lesson 2: Introduction to Traumatic Adaptations (Part 2)
  • Lesson 3: Engaging Traumatic Adaptations (Part 1)
  • Lesson 4: Engaging Traumatic Adaptations (Part 2)
  • Lesson 5: Engaging Traumatic Adaptations (Part 3)
  • Lesson 6: Week 3 Practice Assignment (TAP Technique)

In this week, lessons focus on what you can do to improve your professional skills to embody a trauma-informed professional; i.e., techniques for your youth, yourself, how to generally operate from a trauma-informed lens, and how to work with triggered trauma when it arises in the moment.

  • Lesson 1: Creating a Safe Environment (Part 1)
  • Lesson 2: Creating a Safe Environment (Part 2)
  • Lesson 3: Fostering Interpersonal Safety (Part 1)
  • Lesson 4: Fostering Interpersonal Safety (Part 2)
  • Lesson 5: Working with Triggered Youth (Part 1)
  • Lesson 6: Working with Triggered Youth (Part 2)
  • Lesson 7: Personal Growth and Self-Care (Part 1)
  • Lesson 8: Personal Growth and Self-Care (Part 2)
  • Lesson 9: Final Quiz
  • Lesson 10: Course Evaluation

Content Access

This is a 4-module online course. Content is accessed by logging in at https://courses.centerforadolescentstudies.com. Once logged in you’ll be redirected to your student dashboard. Click on the course you’d like to access and click on the lesson you want to take.

Certificate of Completion

Lifetime access is granted for course participants. To obtain your certificate of completion you must complete all lessons and take and pass the mid-term and final quiz, and fill out the course evaluation. When finished with all above lessons, your certificate of completion will be available for download in your course dashboard.

Your Instructor

Sam Himelstein, Ph.D., is a Licensed Psychologist (PSY25229) based in Oakland, CA. He has worked in juvenile halls, chemical dependency settings, schools, outpatient hospitals, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, in community settings, and in private practice with teens and their families. He is passionate about training professionals from multiple disciplines in creating authentic, healing relationships with adolescents that contribute to positive outcomes. A formerly incarcerated youth himself, Dr. Himelstein was privileged to change his life from a path of drugs, violence, crime, and self-destruction to that of healing and transformation. His mission is to help young people become aware of the power of self-awareness and transformation, and train professionals with similar interests. Learn more about his philosophy and approach in his books: A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Working with High-Risk Adolescents (Routledge, 2013), Mindfulness-Based Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents: A 12-Session Curriculum (Routledge, 2015), and Trauma-Informed Mindfulness With Teens: A Guide for Mental Health Clinicians (Norton, 2019).

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