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Somatic Language of Trauma: How Understanding the Nervous System Can Support Kids from Hard Places

CE Hours 3

About this course

"Kids from hard places" was a phrase coined from Dr. Karyn Purvis to describe children who have experienced some kind of abuse, neglect, or trauma (including prenatal exposure to substances or high levels of stress, difficult labors or births, or medical trauma). She worked primarily in the field of adoption and foster care, but this definition obviously extends to kids in many different contexts. This presentation will offer a bottom-up understanding of trauma for clinicians working with this population. We will discuss how trauma impacts the body (specifically the nervous system) and a child's development. We will then answer the question of how the nervous system can heal from the impact of trauma. Then we will spend time discussing practical interventions to support a child's nervous system regulation in session and skills to teach their parents or caregivers to use at home.

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the three physiological responses to abuse, neglect, and trauma and how those states, when unresolved, can contribute to the formation of many different psychological disorders.
  • Demonstrate the ability to help organize sensory and sensory-motor experience using the concepts of orientation, grounding, resourcing, titration, and pendulation, and self-regulation.
  • State five somatic play-based strategies to help traumatized children regulate their nervous systems.

Learning Levels

  • Beginner

Target Audience

This self-paced course is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Course Instructor(s)

  • Christine Baker, PhD, LPC-S, CSAT

    Dr. Christine Baker is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Supervisor. She has owned her private practice, Wayfare Counseling, for over ten years, where she has specialized working with trauma recovery and people struggling with sexual compulsivity and their loved ones. She is EMDR and somatically trained, and she has also completed the Traumatic Stress Studies certificate through The Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute under Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. Dr. Baker has also served as an adjunct professor at Richmont Graduate University for many years in their Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program, and she has provided support to many organizations and non-profits through training and education programs.

Disclosure

DISCLOSURE OF RELEVANT FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS CE Learning Systems adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity ― including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others ― are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (formerly known as commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity. The following relevant financial relationships have been disclosed by this activity’s planners, faculty, and the reviewer: PLANNERS AND REVIEWER The planners of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships. FACULTY The faculty of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships.

References

  • Gobbel, R. (2023). Raising kids with big, baffling behaviors. Jessica Kingsley Pub.
  • Terrell, S., & Kain, K. (2018). Nurturing resilience: Helping clients move forward from developmental trauma--an integrative somatic approach. North Atlantic Books.
  • Kuhfuß, M., Maldei, T., Hetmanek, A., & Baumann, N. (2021). Somatic experiencing – effectiveness and key factors of a body-oriented trauma therapy: a scoping literature review. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 12(1).
  • Riordan, J.P. (2022). Dyadic trauma and attachment: A monozygotic twin study assessing the efficacy of Somatic Experiencing®. Journal of Applied Neurosciences, 1(1), a3. https://doi.org/10.4102/jan. v1i1.3
  • Riordan, J., Blakeslee, A., & Levine, P. (2017). Toddler trauma: Somatic experiencing, attachment, and the neurophysiology of dyadic completion. 5(1).

CE Process Info

Content

  • Content
    2 parts
    • Webinar Recording
    • Powerpoint Slides

CE Approvals

  • American Psychological Association (APA)

    CE Learning Systems, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CE Learning Systems maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

  • Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)

    Somatic Language of Trauma: How Understanding the Nervous System Can Support Kids from Hard Places, Course #5374, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by CE Learning Systems, LLC. as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 11/14/2023 - 11/14/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 3 clinical continuing education credits. ACE individual course approval meets the NJ Board of Social Work Examiners requirements for individual course approval pursuant to NJ Code 13:44G-6.4.16.

  • National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)

    CE Learning Systems has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5951. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CE Learning Systems is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Make An Impact is a service division of CE Learning Systems.

  • New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work (NYSEDSW)

    CE Learning Systems SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0060.

  • New York Education Department Board of Creative Arts Therapy (NYSEDCAT)

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  • New York Education Department for Licensed Mental Health Counselors (NYSEDLMHC)

    CE Learning Systems, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0072.

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  • New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology (NYSEDPSY)

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FAQs

  • Course Completion
    To complete the course, review the course objectives, then review the material, and then pass the exam with a score of 70% or greater and lastly complete an evaluation. Your certificate will be available to download immediately when you pass the course exam and complete the evaluation.
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    If a grievance arises pertaining to continuing education activities or processes, please contact Tyler Gibson via confidential email to tyler@celearningsystems.com as soon as possible, so that the nature of the concern may be addressed in a timely fashion.
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    ADA accommodations will be made in accordance with the law; please indicate your special needs prior to registering for the course by sending an email to support@ce-go.com or by calling us at 888 498 5578.
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