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Creative Approaches To Trauma Processing and Resilience-Building In An Age of Mass Trauma
PRESENTER: Craig haen, phd, rdt, cgp, lcat, agpa-f
Location:
Bishop Jones Center
Chapel House
111 Torcido Dr
9:00AM - 4:30PM
6 CE hours
*lunch will be provided
From school shootings to mass disasters, the past several years have offered no shortage of sudden and shocking events that have disrupted communities. Group therapists are ideally situated to respond to these events, both in the immediate aftermath and throughout the extended period of recovery. This daylong workshop offers training on clinical work in the context of community and shared traumatic events, with a particular emphasis on the use of art-based, experiential, and embodied approaches. Such techniques are particularly useful in establishing safety, promoting self-regulation, and making meaning in the face of events that often defy the use of language. Topics will include the impact and nature of mass trauma; factors influencing individual and community responses; building resilience within the professional self; distinguishing between acute and long-term intervention; and the incorporation of creative approaches within group and individual modalities. Attendees will engage with both theory and practice, including in vivo demonstration of experiential techniques.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify at least three emotional reactions experienced by people who have been exposed to mass trauma events.
2. Cite three factors that can influence the impact of a traumatic event on a community.
3. Identify at least two ways in which a shared trauma impacts professionals working in that context.
4. Distinguish between acute and long-term intervention by identifying one difference in the therapist’s use of self.
5. Describe two experiential techniques that can be utilized in trauma processing.
6. Apply these experiential techniques to three different patient contexts.
Dr. Haen has a private practice working with children, adolescents, adults and families in White Plains, NY, and provides consultation and training on trauma-responsive practices, as well as frontline and secondary response to traumatic events in communities and systems. He is a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, where he co-chairs the Community Outreach Task Force, which facilitates the organization’s response to mass trauma events. He co-founded and serves as Program Director for the Kint Institute, offering post-Masters clinical training in the arts and trauma treatment. His most recent book is Creative Arts-Based Group Therapy with Adolescents, with Nancy Boyd Webb.