Rutti Counseling & Consultation

This presentation will share strategies for adapting EMDR Therapy Standard Protocol for use with children who have experienced adverse life experiences.  Adaptations to the 8-Phase Standard Protocol include completing comprehensive history taking, teaching specific preparation strategies, and integrating creative, child-focused interventions to implement during desensitization through re-evaluation phases. Specific strategies will include: psychoeducation about trauma response and EMDR therapy, preparation skills, attachment exercises, and art and play-based interventions. Using the tenets of the Adaptive Information Processing model, this workshop will explore strategies to identify and resolve unprocessed information that is dysfunctionally stored as a result of trauma.

This course is geared toward participants who are partially or fully trained in EMDR therapy that are currently working with children, or would like to work with children in the future. Clinicians that work with adult clients and use parts work will also benefit from this training, and modifications that can be used for working with younger parts of self.

OBJECTIVES

1. Describe the triune brain model and the impact of trauma on the brain

2. Describe the window of tolerance model and identify 2-3 grounding strategies to manage hyperarousal symptoms and 2-3 alerting strategies to manage hypoarousal symptoms

3. Discuss the impact of preverbal trauma on development

4. Describe dissociative symptoms as they present in children and adolescents

5. Complete trauma-focused history taking with children and adolescents

6. Identify 1-2 ethical considerations and challenges with working with children and adolescents

7. Utilize case conceptualization strategies when working with children and adolescents using the AIP model

8. Demonstrate 2-3 Phase 2 Preparation strategies for use with children and adolescents

9. Identify 2-3 adaptations and interventions appropriate for children and adolescents for Phases 3-8

10. Identify 2-3 situations during which an interweave may be appropriate or necessary

11. Describe the storytelling technique for the integration of EMDR Therapy with children and caregivers

12. Describe 1-3 alternative methods of therapy that can be integrated into EMDR Therapy

OUTLINE

• Children and trauma (trauma definitions, trauma education, dissociation)
• EMDR Therapy and Children (ethical considerations, educating children about EMDR therapy, AIP model/case conceptualization)
• 8 Phases of EMDR therapy with children
• Challenges in working with children (abreaction, avoidance, interweaves)
• Telehealth considerations
• Preverbal trauma (preverbal trauma with standard protocol, Early Trauma advanced protocol)
• Storytelling technique
• Self-care/secondary traumatic stress

Code of Conduct

• This is a self-paced, asynchronous homestudy course.  The lectures are pre-recorded. You will have access to the course dashboard for a period of 6 months and must complete the course within that period of time to be eligible for CE credit hours. Extensions may be requested by contacting [email protected] There will be an additional fee for course extensions.

• Refund/Cancellation Policy: You have read and agree to RCC's Organizational Policies, which stipulate the terms for refunds, cancellations, and resolving grievances and disputes.

• Confidentiality: There is no client relationship or other privilege that would create a duty rising to the level of clinical confidentiality in this training setting; however, you are expected to respect the confidentiality of clients that are featured in the video content.  All clients and/or caregivers provided consent for their sessions to be shared in an educational setting.  Their identities have been hidden to the best of our abilities. Your trainer will explain the importance of confidentiality. Training videos are not to be accessed after your six months of training access and are not to be shared with anyone that has not personally purchased the course.

• Correspondence from Training Organization: RCC regularly sends correspondence about the training. The emails presently come from [email protected]. Additionally, RCC may send out emails from [email protected]. If you are not receiving these emails, you are required to check your Spam folder as correspondence from new organizations often ends up there. Once you receive your first correspondence, please save the email to your address book. If you have not received a confirmation email or other correspondence from the organization within seven days of the event, it is your responsibility to reach out to us by email or phone.