Description
In this training, participants will learn about post-traumatic growth, how it differs from, and overlaps with, recovery, and how to discuss growth with clients without minimizing their trauma or struggles. Participants will learn and practice approaches that can help open the door to growth, and foster progress for their clients. The training will explores the phenomena of post-traumatic growth through the accounts of survivors, and the investigations of researchers and providers. Participants will review key studies to better understand the factors that support optimal recovery and growth after trauma. Using examples and exercises, participants will explore healthy ways that survivors can respond to trauma to promote growth and development in their own lives, and how practitioners can foster these outcomes.
Outcomes
Participants will:
- Be able to describe the concept of post-traumatic growth including changes in cognition, behavior and self-experience commonly observed.
- Understand recovery as part of a continuing that can be assessed and supported in the clinical relationship.
- Feel able to provide psycho-education about post-traumatic growth to clients, without diminishing pain and suffering or challenges stemming from trauma.
- Gain strategies to promote and strengthen recovery factors among those they are helping.
- Reflect on personal experiences to illustrate or exemplify the factors and changes associated with trauma and promote growth.