Understanding Trauma: Stuckness In A Trauma Response

Getting Unstuck

What you'll learn

• Learners will review the three categories of trauma and the definition of trauma from “Understanding Trauma: The Basics.”

• Learners will take a deeper look into a complete trauma cycle and learn the most common places that people get stuck, creating an incomplete cycle.

• Learners will take a deeper look into the negative belief systems that result from trauma and the behavioral responses from these.

• Learners will gain an understanding of a post-traumatic response in themselves as well as tools to move out of a post-traumatic response.

Requirements

Understanding Trauma: The Basics

Description

This course is built on Understanding Trauma: The Basics. The instructor will walk learners through a quick review of the basics of trauma. After this, learners will take a deeper dive into the impact of trauma both neurologically and behaviorally in order to gain a better understanding of themselves and others.When an intense stressor or threat happens, a biological cycle occurs to prepare the body for mobilization. However, when this cycle is unable to complete the body will become stuck in the trauma response. When stuck, people might find themselves in a chronic state of either mobilization (fight or flight) or immobilization (freeze or collapse). The instructor will review the areas that “stuckness” can happen in this cycle and then tie together the meaning of unmet needs, the threat response system, and self-protective defenses through the lens of a trauma cycle. Finally, tools are offered to support others and oneself when in this system to move out of stuckness into a complete cycle.What is primarily taught in your course? Understanding the impact of trauma on the behavioral and biological responses that might come from a survival system. In addition, learners will gain tools to work with the threat response system.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Meet Your Instructor

Lecture 2 Review course objectives

Section 2: Review of “Understanding Trauma: The Basics”

Lecture 3 Review

Section 3: Unpacking the Hand Model of Brain

Lecture 4 Hand Model of the Brain and Three Levels of Safety

Section 4: A Complete Trauma Cycle

Lecture 5 Complete Cycle

Lecture 6 Incomplete Cycle

Section 5: The Impact of an Incomplete Trauma Cycle

Lecture 7 Getting Stuck

Section 6: Unmet needs

Lecture 8 Unmet needs

Section 7: The Toolbox

Lecture 9 Toolbox

This course is for those who are desiring to work in a trauma-informed environment, including group home staff, teachers, medical providers, foster parents, first responders, and mental health providers. Also, anyone who is simply curious about this subject is welcome.