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Specialist Diploma In Developmental Trauma

Delivered Live Online via Zoom

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Full Fee: €2,150

  • €550 due on registration

  • 4 Monthly payments of €400

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Specialist Diploma in Developmental Trauma

This innovative, comprehensive, reflective and evidence informed  Specialist Diploma in Developmental Trauma is appropriate for a wide range of professionals who wish to develop a specialism in Developmental Trauma. This Specialist Diploma will have a focus on neuroscience, interpersonal neurobiological and attachment theory ensuring a clear theoretical framework underpinned by research and the principals of Trauma and Attachment  Informed Care. It will have a strong focus on reflective practice and mentalisation, through a  framework of  knowledge attainment, experiential learning, reflection, introspection, internalisation and externalisation and its application to  safe and informed professional practice.

Participants who complete this Specialist Diploma will gain a comprehensive understanding and appreciation of developmental trauma  along with skills and tools to effectively mentalise and engage in developmental trauma informed support in a safe and ethical manner.

Who will benefit from this course?

  • Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Play and Art Therapists who wish to enhance their core therapeutic training through undertaking a specialism in Developmental Trauma Informed Care.  Therapists who undertake this training will enhance their core training enabling the expansion of  their clinical practice through the integration of Developmental Trauma Informed Therapy. In addition, therapists who undertake this training will develop the tools and skills to engage in Developmental Trauma Informed Support Work with parents,  carers and professional who care for and support children and adolescents with developmental trauma histories.
  • Social Workers and Family Support Workers who wish to acquire a specialism in developmental trauma and expertise in supporting and educating parents/carers of children/adolescents with developmental trauma histories to parent and provide care through a Developmental Trauma Informed Lens, based on the principals of empathic attunement, informed understanding, co-regulation, structure, consistency and mentalisation.
  • Residential Care Professionals who provide care and support to children and adolescents with developmental trauma histories will find this programme highly valuable. Residential care professionals who complete this programme will develop the tools and skills to enable them to provide care through a Developmental Trauma Informed Lens, based on the principals of empathic attunement, informed understanding, co-regulation, structure, consistency and mentalisation.

This programme will be delivered online via Zoom

Awarded 130 CPD Points by The Irish Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy

Programme Modules & Timetable

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Monday 4th December 2023.

Introduction to Course Philosophy, Principals, and Assessments

7:30pm – 9:30pm on Zoom.

Facilitator: Liz Quish

Saturday 9th December 2023,
Sunday 10th December 2023.

Participants will explore and analyse the The ACE Study, Trauma, Toxic Stress and the impact on children and adolescents’ health and wellbeing. Participants will also reflect on the impact of developmental trauma across developmental domains – Physical, Psychological, Neurological, Cognitive, Emotional and Social.

10am – 4pm on Zoom.

Facilitator: Dr Alvina Grosu

Saturday 20th January 2024,
Sunday 21st January 2024,
Saturday 3rd February 2024,
Sunday 4th February 2024.

Introducing and critiquing the major theories of developmental psychology that underpin our understanding and appreciation of development during childhood and adolescence. Key theories which have been influential in developmental child and adolescent psychology will be described and evaluated. This module will also explore the complex biological, psychological and cultural factors that influence a child’s and adolescents’ developmental process. Participants will learn the theoretical foundation for key constructs, theories and developmental processes in perceptual, social, emotional, cognitive and language development.

10am – 4pm on Zoom.

Facilitator: Dr Alvina Grosu

Saturday 2nd March 2024,
Sunday 3rd March 2024.

Bowlby’s Attachment Theory will be presented and the implications of separation, loss and abuse on a child’s and adolescents attachment formation. Ainsworth’s classifications and the process of the development of secure and insecure attachments will be outlined with an in-depth exploration of the effects of secure and insecure attachment on a child’s and adolescents social, emotional and behavioural development. Parental/Carers attachment styles, intergenerational trauma and the implications of parental attachment styles on parenting a child with developmental trauma will be conceptualised and explored. The focus of this module will centre on enabling participants to explore the ways in which an attachment lens can inform practitioners understanding of carer/child interactions with a view to formulating more effective interventions in order to assist parents/ carers/ staff in creating a containing , safe and nurturing environment.

10am – 4pm on Zoom.

Facilitator: Dr Alvina Grosu

Saturday 6th April 2024,
Sunday 7th April 2024,
Sunday 21st April 2024.

This module will explore different parenting styles and models of parenting, and the strengths and weaknesses of these models in parenting/caring for children and adolescents with developmental trauma histories. Participants will explore and examine key theories and principles relating to family support, namely; Bowen family systems, and Virginia Satir family therapy.

10am – 4pm on Zoom.

Facilitator: Dr Alvina Grosu

Saturday 4th May 2024,
Sunday 5th May 2024,
Sunday 19th May 2024.

Participants will explore the principles and main tenants of Stephen Porge’s Polyvagal Theory along with the contributions of Bessel van der Kolk and Babette Rothschild. Participants develop a deep understanding of the need for an embodied approach to trauma developing participants confident in their ability to educate and support parents/ carers/ staff to tune into and reshape their nervous systems. Participants will explore and analyse how the autonomic nervous system operates as an internal surveillance system and its impact on habitual responses to trauma and will develop a range of tools and strategies to help parents/ carers/staff to engage the regulating capacities of their autonomic nervous system in order to create an environment of holding and safety for children and adolescents becoming more adept in the skills of co-regulation and creating reciprocal relationships. Participants will develop the ability to assess patterns in parent/ carers / staff autonomic states and explore their role as co-regulator through employing the right degree of neural challenge and a range of safe exercises to help shape the autonomic nervous system toward safety and connection.

10am – 4pm on Zoom.

Facilitator: Patricia Allen-Garrett

Friday 21st June 2024,
Saturday 22nd June 2024,
Friday 28th June 2024.

Focusing on developing a framework for assisting parents / carers / staff in providing children/adolescents with the nurturing replacement experiences they require to regulate, through incorporating the core principles of Bruce Perry’s Neuro-sequential model, Dan Hughes PACE Parenting Model and Dan Siegel’s Rupture and Repair process. Participants will explore how positive reinforcement supports children’s and adolescent growth and development, and how negative reinforcement can be harmful to children and adolescents who have been exposed to developmental trauma. Participants will develop tools and strategies to enable them to provide psychoeducation to parents/carers/ staff in order to educate, support and guide parents/carers/staff to support a child/adolescent through the different stages of an escalation/outburst, including proactive strategies for preventing further escalation during the triggering phase, guidance around managing the outburst and key strategies for supporting the child’s /adolescents recovery and reconnection to the parent/carer post-escalation.

10am – 4pm on Zoom.

Facilitator: Marian Connell

Saturday 6th July 2024,
Sunday 7th July 2024.

Parenting and providing care for children who have experienced developmental trauma can be very demanding for parents/carers/staff with research noting many are at risk of experiencing compassion fatigue, burn out and secondary trauma, which can result in blocked care and placement breakdown. This module will explore the dynamics of compassion fatigue, burn out and secondary trauma and how such presentation can manifest and present in parents/carers/ staff. Participants will develop a sound knowledge and appreciation of the main indicators of compassion fatigue, burn out and secondary trauma and contributory risk factors. Participants will explore a range of strategies to support parents/carers with such presentations.

10am – 4pm on Zoom.

Facilitator: Dr. Alvina Grosu

Wednesday 10th July 2024.

Group Process, Exploration of Knowledge and Implications for Professional Practice.

7:30pm – 9:30pm on Zoom.

Facilitator: Liz Quish

Participants are expected to attend an online tutorial and will be assigned to either Group 1 or Group 2 on registration.

Wednesday 17th April 2024 (Group 1),
Thursday 18th April 2024 (Group 2).

7:30pm – 9:30pm on Zoom.

Facilitator: Liz Quish

Learning Outcomes

  • Develop a sound knowledge of Developmental Trauma and the capacity to apply this knowledge to professional practice through introspection, internalisation and externalisation.
  • Develop a deep and comprehensive understanding of child/adolescent development and developmental trauma through developing a heightened trauma and attachment informed lens.
  • Understand the neurobiology of the traumatised brain and resulting behaviours.
  • Develop the ability to support parents/carers/staff to understand and re-frame challenging behaviour so they can understand and response to the child’s/ adolescent’s needs through the lens of Developmental Trauma.
  • Support parents/carers and residential staff in developing, increasing and maintaining a reflective and emotionally regulated stance through the process of Mentalisation.
  • Educate and coach parents/carers/staff in utilising therapeutic parenting/care techniques with children and adolescents with developmental trauma histories.
  • Provide parents/carers and staff with therapeutic support in order to avoid feeling disempowered and lessen the impact of blocked care and compassion fatigue.

Programme Structure

Entry Requirements:
This CPD Diploma is open to practitioners who have successfully completed a Degree or Diploma in a relevant discipline.

Schedule:
Class times – 10am to 4pm.

Teaching Methods:
This programme will be delivered online via Zoom.

Assessment:

  • 2500 Word Reflective Learning Journal
  • 1500 Word Book Review

Terms & Conditions:

Please read our Terms and Conditions document carefully. You will be required to indicate your consent on the programme application form.

Programme Fee & Registration

Full Fee: €2,150

  • €550 due on registration
  • 4 Monthly payments of €400

Fees must be paid in full before course commencement.

 

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