Clinical Evening Meeting: The Trauma Resilience Model in Everyday Life

Some of our clients have been traumatized by a single or even a series of events.  Some are being traumatized on a daily basis.  We go through profound physiological and psychological changes when traumatized.  We tend to focus on the later and ignore the former.  Are we adept enough to teach our distraught clients the difference between the physical and emotional reactions they are experiencing? And why is this so important?

The Trauma Resiliency Model answers those questions and gives us the tools to help our clients become more resilient and stronger.  This evening you will see what it looks like when someone is in their “Resilient Zone” and how to help clients recognize when they have been ‘activated out’ of it.

It can be a profound experience when you help clients ‘make sense’ of their distress and then teach them specific ways to cope. This can ‘open up’ clients to process previously unavailable emotional issues. This model has been used worldwide at the site of various natural/man made disasters.  I use it conducting Critical Incident Stress Debriefings and when working with children and families in my office.


Objectives  
To learn the basics of the Trauma Resiliency Model
To learn the physical reactions to trauma and where they originate
To differentiate between physical and emotional reactions
To learn basic steps to mitigate the negative physical affects
To learn how to the Trauma Resiliency Model can augment your practice

About the Presenter: Pete Goddard, LICSW has been in clinical social work practice for 33 years; in private practice, community mental health, schools and agency settings.  He has used the Trauma Resiliency model in various settings for the past six years.

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