Full Being Services has been designated by the Complex Trauma Training Consortium as the complex trauma training organization for the state of Pennsylvania. With that designation, we have 20 different modules that focus on different aspects of people impacted by complex trauma.
Complex Trauma 101
Complex Trauma 101 is designed to be an introduction to complex trauma and will cover types of trauma, the physiology of trauma, ways complex trauma impacts development, and basic strategies to help people feel safer. This training will help participants think about behaviors in a different way, learn how to create safe places for people who have experienced complex trauma, and learn ways to explain this to parents and children.
Domains of Impact
This module explores different types of chronic trauma, diagnoses, and outcomes, including the effects of complex trauma exposure in children. Eight domains of complex trauma will be discussed in depth: affect regulation, behavioral control, physical health, cognition, dissociation, self-concept, attachment, and future orientation.
Assessment
Complex Trauma: Assessment focuses on trauma-informed screening and assessment through a complex trauma lens, providing a comprehensive framework and tools to ultimately support treatment and service planning. This workshop will provide an overview of trauma-informed screening and assessment and the importance of using them with children and families impacted by complex trauma.
Systemic Racism & People of Color
Systemic Racism & People of Color explores community violence as a form of continuous traumatic stress. Participants will discuss the effects of chronic community violence exposures, the intersection with complex trauma and systemic racism, and culturally-specific approaches for working with Black and Latinx youth and families.
LGBTQ+ Youth
LGBTQ+ Youth covers contributing factors that may negatively and positively impact the overall health and well-being of LGBTQ youth, including sociological-intersectionality-focused considerations to form a more nuanced understanding of the unique needs that LGBTQ+ youth have. The session includes practice-based recommendations regarding approaches that may be helpful when providing care to LGBTQ+ youth.
Substance Abuse
This module focuses on the intersection between trauma and addiction. Participants will be introduced to case examples that demonstrate trauma responses and survival techniques in clients with substance use disorder. Join facilitators in discussing trauma-informed treatment models and how substance use can impact the nervous system.
Provider Bias, Implicit Racism & White Privilege
This training covers how unconscious attitudes and various forms of social privilege can impact care. The course includes self-reflection opportunities and techniques for mitigating implicit bias in provider-client interactions. Participants should be able to describe the legacy of harm in healthcare and be able to define interpersonal, internalized, and institutional racism.
Schools & Learning
Schools & Learning's purpose is to explore how complex trauma shows up in schools and impacts the ways youth are perceived in school settings. In this module participants will learn to identify and respond to traumatic experiences for youth under 18.
EBT(Evidenced-Based Therapy) Intervention Strategies - Educate & Support
This module emphasizes the importance of addressing caregiver needs and skills when working with childhood trauma. Includes techniques for engagement with client caregivers, and outlines strategies for guiding clients on regulation, attunement, and effective responses to youth behavior.
Selecting EBP (Evidenced-Based Practices) that Matches Individual & Cultural
This module’s purpose is to provide an overview of treatment models which are effective in the treatment of complex trauma for youth and adults. In addition to introducing various treatment models, the module will touch upon considerations for selecting treatment that is the best fit for a client and/or their family.
Historical Trauma
Historical Trauma emphasizes the importance of culture on well-being and quality of life, and how history and context are part of the whole person and should be taken into account when looking to understand someone’s experience and behavior. The training describes historical trauma and its cumulative impact, and includes lessons that can be learned from indigenous communities about healing and resilience.
Practice & EB Intervention - Direct Care Staff Residential
This Practice & Evidence-Based Intervention module illustrates considerations specific to residential caregiving. Discussion will include how complex trauma shows up in our milieus, how it impacts our philosophy of care, and how we can build shared language among staff and youth. Participants will then apply their understanding into an active practice model – the Safe Relational Container, and explore trauma-informed strategies guided by an action sequence of Calm, Connect, and Respond.
Practice & EB Intervention - Direct Care Staff Juvenile Justice
This Practice & Evidence-Based Intervention module illustrates considerations specific to staff working directly with the Juvenile Justice population. Participants will identify and discuss how complex trauma has played a role in youth and families presenting in the juvenile justice system and reverberating impacts across systems.
Clinical Guided Decision Making
Clinical Guided Decision Making explores the challenges that providers face during critical moments with clients who have experienced complex trauma, and provides key principles and tactics for handling these crises and preserving clients’ safety.
Homeless & Runaway Youth
Homeless & Runaway Youth explores the challenges that young people experiencing homelessness face during their developmental years. Participants will be given the opportunity to look at the role of both historical trauma and intergenerational trauma in youth becoming homeless.
Pharmacology
Pharmacology discusses why diagnosis is important, since the clinical presentation of complex trauma can lead to differential diagnoses. The management of those diagnoses may include psychotropic medications, applications of which are covered in this training.
Support Parents with Unresolved CT / Historical Trauma
This module addresses why past personal trauma and intergenerational trauma matter in parenting; we repeat that which is familiar. The module covers potential caregiving challenges for individuals who have had their own past trauma, and provides strategies for self-care and enhancing the parent-child connection.
Immigrant & Refugee Children & Families
This module explores the nature of complex traumatic stress disorders for immigrant and refugee families as they go through the process of migration. The module covers possible presentations in clinical settings as well as approaches for working with this population.
Early Intervention
Early Intervention addresses what complex trauma looks like in young children and how trauma can change the course of early childhood development. The training also covers treatment targets for young children and caregivers, and intervention strategies.
Neurobiology
Neurobiology establishes a foundational understanding of what is happening in the brain and body in response to a perceived threat. The way the brain and body respond to trauma is universal. This module helps participants identify when a neurobiological response has been activated, so we can better match our intervention approach in the moment.