Eric Gentry And Robert Rhoton – Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Intensive Training Course

Based on 25 years of break-through research, this trauma competency training can revolutionize the way you work with trauma survivors and dramatically improve your treatment outcomes.

Internationally renowned trauma experts Eric Gentry, Ph.D., LMHC, and Robert Rhoton, PsyD, LPC, D.A.A.E.T.S., will guide you step by step through eight comprehensive training modules:

Module 1: The History and Evolution of Traumatic Stress, Grief & Loss

• Systemic traumatic stress theory and development of the field
• Symptoms of traumatic stress
• Evidence-based interventions and emerging treatment trends
• Instruments to assess traumatic stress
• The Tri-Phasic trauma treatment model

Module 2: The 10 Core Competencies of Trauma, PTSD, Grief & Loss

• Biochemical, psychological, social, and spiritual factors that produce anxiety & traumatic stress
• Adaptive and maladaptive coping behaviors
• The biochemical, affective, and cognitive impacts of traumatic stress
• Traumatic stress over time, across and within developmental stages
• The role of traumatic stress in clinical disorders such as personality disorders, dissociative identity disorder and more
• Conceptualizing a framework of healing for survivors of traumatic stress
• Traumatic stress across the continuum of systemic levels

Module 3: Assessment of Traumatic Stress Disorders

• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the APA & DSM-5® changes
• ACE & developmental trauma
• Diagnosing PTSD with the PCL-5

Module 4: Evidence-Based Trauma Treatments & Interventions

• Relaxation/Self-regulation
• Grounding
• Containment
• Writing/journaling
• Drawing art
• Healing metaphors
• Transitional objects

Module 5: Treatment Interventions: Demonstrations, Exercises & Application

• Narrative Exposure Therapy Technique
• Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
• Bilateral Stimulation

Module 6: More on Effective Treatment Interventions

• Cognitive Behavioral Techniques (PE, CPT & SIT)
• EMDR & Bilateral Stimulation
• Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
• Sensorimotor

Module 7: Desensitization, Integration & Closure

• Trauma memory processing
• Graphic timeline
• Narratives
• Closure: lessons learned

Module 8: Theories of Traumatic Stress, Loss and Grief & Disorders

• Information processing model
• Psychosocial model
• Contemporary thoughts
• Bereavement and adjustment disorders
• Normal and complicated bereavement