Understand the causes and impacts of trauma and how to effectively respond

Building on our ‘Responding to trauma workshop’, you will deepen your knowledge of trauma and practice advanced strategies to effectively support people with trauma symptoms in alcohol and other drug treatment. Go deeper into understanding and responding to trauma to enhance your knowledge, skills and confidence in working with people who have trauma histories.

Learning outcomes:

• Apply a model for responding to trauma to the specific context of alcohol and other drug treatment
• Increase your range of sensitive responses to trauma disclosure
• Understand how to integrate trauma into screening, assessment and treatment
• Develop detailed case conceptualisation and treatment planning for clients with co-occurring alcohol and other drug and trauma

Who should attend:

This is an advanced skills workshop suitable for experienced and advanced practitioners. We recommend you do our Working with trauma workshop before attending this workshop.

Facilitators: Dr Richard Cash