The Essentials of Effective Trauma Treatment: How to Go Beyond Technique

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Mary Jo Barrett, MSW Related seminars and products

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Mary Jo Barrett, MSW, is the founder and director of the Center for Contextual Change, and the coauthor of Treating Complex Trauma: A Relational Blueprint for Collaboration and Change and Systemic Treatment of Incest.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Mary Jo Barrett is the founder and director of the Center for Contextual Change. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Mary Jo Barrett has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

Target Audience

Outline

• Creating a Context for Change
  • Micro and macro perspectives
  • Awareness and attunement to when you use (or don’t use) 5 essential ingredients
    • failure in therapy is failure to notice these 5 ingredients
    • key to therapy and life changes is recognizing when you use and do not use them
  • Discuss with clients the process of therapy
    • Understand client’s goals
    • Explain therapy processes that enable change to happen
    • Build collaboration, interaction and engagement
    • Ask client, “what do you want to know about me?”  (note:  this was discussed during Role Play)
• Challenging Patterns/Cycles and Expanding Realities:  a Collaborative Change model
  • Fractal model:  repeating patterns of the 5 essential ingredients, within and between sessions
    • Concept-driven, universal model
    • Adapt to the needs and goals of each client:  therapy as an art form
    • Challenges client and therapist to think differently
  • Use the Five Essential Ingredients for Healing
    • Attachment and connection:  help clients build relationships with you and others
    • Create a sense of belonging, mutual curiosity, compassion, empathy
    • Communicate with collaborative conversations that validate the client
    • Connect to a deep set of values that provide meaningful vision
    • Safety and empowerment: build refuge by creating boundaries
    • Explain your therapeutic model and why you chose to use this approach
    • Expect client challenges
    • Values:  use collaborative, strength-based guidance
    • Generate discussion of vulnerabilities and resources, and how to use them in the moment
    • Recognize the universal nature of challenge and change
  • Skills:  learn and apply many therapeutic models   (discussed primarily during “Role Play”)
    • Apply psycho-educational and therapeutic approaches
    • Identify resources for client success
  • Hope:   expecting the possibility of change    (discussed primarily during “Role Play”)
    • Use resources to create possibilities
    • Build expectations in clients
    • Accept finite possibilities to create infinite hope
• Consolidation and repetition:   pause, reflect, and combine experiences
  • Harness the natural cycle of change and growth through using these 3 steps in the Collaborative Change Model,
  • Recognize and repeat the 5 Essential Ingredients for Healing
  • Build skills for therapeutic intervention
  • (the following points outline the speaker’s final hour with audience participation)
  • Role play demonstrations with participants:
    • Pictionary:  draw a time you felt safe when growing up in your family
    • Pause and reflect, to contract and consolidate
    • all clients are asked to keep a journal of resources to use in the process of change
    • contrast vulnerabilities with resources
    • write one thing you will take with you from session today; distil this to one word

Objectives

1. Assess the client’s natural change cycle and how to organize therapy around it
2. Develop procedures for creating a secure, safe attachment, including a transparent and overt collaborative contract
3. Support clients’ resources rather than becoming preoccupied with pathology
4. Assess the client’s resources and your own to create an effective treatment plan

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