Buffalo Trauma Training Details

Day Cummings

Discount price for our trauma certificate participants and graduates is $125.

Death by homicide and the impact on family members and friends impacts almost every agency and professional. The loss of someone due to violent death complicates the grieving process and presents a challenge to the clinician. Sadly, too much violent death occurs in life today from homicide, child abuse, and school violence. Death, violent death and grief are not topics that many are prepared to deal with; it can often create considerable discomfort for the clinician.

The normal grief process needs to be supported, not pathologized. However, grief can progress to complicated grief and persistent complex bereavement disorder that affects social and work functioning more profoundly for a longer period of time. Differential diagnosis is needed to assess normal grief as well as progression into complicated grief, depressive disorders, and PTSD. Substance use disorders can also become involved over time as a way of numbing or escaping grief. The DSM5 lists Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorders as a condition for further study with proposed criteria and diagnosis features.

This presentation is for those seeking more training on the grieving process related to homicide in order to have both a framework of knowledge and skills to start the discussions and develop a treatment plan to help people cope and find meaning in life once again. Part of the day will be spent on an informative and compassionate approach to the grief process. Time will be allotted to learn how to have these challenging conversations in situations of violent death and steps to creating a treatment plan as well as caring for ourselves.

Learning objectives:
• Explain the grieving process as it relates to homicide including street violence, child abuse and school violence for different age levels and family dynamics;
• Identify how to apply trauma theory in working with children, adolescents, adults and families dealing with violent death;
• Recognize the characteristics of complicated grief and persistent complex bereavement disorder;
• Identify the differential diagnosis process;
• Apply effective engagement skills to open the discussion about feelings related to violent death, and set up appropriate interventions and treatment plans for various age levels and families using Problem Based Learning theory;
• Understand the dynamics of self-care for the professional as it relates to violent death.

Research:
Work with survivors of those whose lives have been touched by homicide encompasses trauma treatment, grief processing and complicated grief that is different from normal grief. Select Information can be found at the Center for Complicated Grief http://bit.ly/2nqbRtu; Violent Death Bereavement Society at http://bit.ly/2qK5TXH; Evidence-based Trauma-Focused CBT at http://bit.ly/2M3Rb9g; Google Scholar and violent death and grief articles http://bit.ly/2prKf6y; Meeting the Needs of Victim Survivors Following Violent Death at http://bit.ly/2pX4qwm.

Target Audience: social workers, mental health practitioners, creative arts therapists, marriage and facility therapists, psychologists, addiction professionals, medical professionals, and other interested individuals.

Content level: beginning and intermediate

CEUs
NY Social Workers: University at Buffalo School of Social Work Office of Continuing Education 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 #SW-0001. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance. 6 live in-person contact hours are approved.

NY Mental Health Counselors: University at Buffalo School of Social Work Office of Continuing Education 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-0008. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance. 6 live in-person contact hours are approved.

NY Creative Arts Therapists: University at Buffalo School of Social Work Office of Continuing Education 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 creative arts therapists. #CAT-0003. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance. 6 live in-person contact hours are approved.

NY Marriage and Family Therapists: University at Buffalo School of Social Work Office of Continuing Education 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 marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0007. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance. 6 live in-person contact hours are approved.

NYS OASAS Provider #0045: 6 hours approved for CASAC, CPP & CPS Renewal Hours.

Trauma-informed Certificate Programs: counts as 6 Elective hours in our Trauma-Informed Certificate Programs

ADA Accommodations: If you require any support for your ADA needs in the United States, please contact us by email at least 3 weeks prior to the event by email at sw-ce@buffalo.edu or by phone at 716-829-5841.

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