Description
In this hour-long webinar, Geraldine will provide an overview of the relationship between trauma and its impact on behaviour, personality, and academics as it relates to developmental stages. Participants will learn when trauma should be the leading lens in assessment and treatment, how to triage competing treatment issues and what the critical elements are when working with traumatized children and youth. There will be an opportunity for participants to consider the needs of clients within the parameters of program limitations.
Geraldine has worked for years with sectors such as: mental health, residential treatment services, protective services, law enforcement, medical and other helping professions and developed the 6-day Trauma Assessment and Treatment Program for Safeguards which has reached over 2500 professionals. We look forward to hearing back from participants to tailor future trauma trainings to suit current needs.
Learning Outcomes
- Examine when trauma should be the leading lens for assessment and treatment.
- Review and update the critical elements of working with traumatized children and youth.
- Describe the relationship between trauma and behaviour as it relates to developmental stages.
- Identification of future trauma training needs in assessment and treatment.
Who Should Attend
This is recommended for anyone that works with children and youth that have experienced trauma.
Course Dates & Format
Request access to this free 1-hour webinar.
Instructor: Geraldine Crisci, MSW, RSW
Geraldine Crisci is a trauma expert with 35 years’ experience in the field. She is a private practitioner and a member of CPRO who provides assessment and treatment to children, youth, and their families. She is also a professional trainer providing educational programs to mental health, protective services, law enforcement, medical and other helping profession. Geraldine developed and teaches the 6 day Trauma Assessment and Treatment Program for Safeguards which has reached 2500 professionals in the past 15 years. Geraldine has developed protocols for the assessment and treatment of trauma, sexualized behaviour problems and sibling sexual abuse. She specializes in clinical consultation to both protection and mental health agencies on children and youth presenting with complex trauma. Geraldine has developed reunification protocol for families and has provided support to agencies and families in successful adoption of children from the Protection system. For over 20 years, she has also worked with residential treatment programs for children and youth. Geraldine specializes in addressing the impact of trauma on the behaviour of children and youth. To this end she develops clinical programs to provide children, youth and their families with corrective effective therapeutic intervention. Geraldine is a member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC). She co-authored Paper Dolls and Paper Airplanes: Therapeutic Exercises for Sexually Traumatized Children, which is currently in its 15th year of printing.
Training Fee
There is no fee for this information session.
Request access to this free webinar.
