A Practical Guide: Using CBT for Childhood Complex Trauma

The art of understanding and engaging with clients who suffer from complex trauma is often viewed as a complicated approach reserved for clinicians. This course is designed to support you as a beginning practitioner, empathizer, friend, family member, community worker or academic in understanding the background of complex trauma and subsequently using tried and tested cognitive behavioral therapy techniques and tools to support children and young people to better understand their thoughts, feelings and emotions.

This course is designed to be concise and to the point and in just under an hour, you will be able to:

• Define complex trauma compared to traumatic events

• Identify warning signs of complex trauma for children and young people

• Develop your own reflective practice

• Describe Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

• Identify the foundations of CBT and the underpinning theories

• Recognise the importance of implementation of CBT for psycho-emotional growth and development

• Be introduced to tried and tested tools which work when engaging with children and young people in exploring and clarifying trauma

Following this course, you will be able to deliver all of the above in a confident manner with clients and loved ones alike.

So who is this course for?

• Beginning practitioners in allied health

• Community care workers looking to expand their knowledge and understanding

• People who want a step by step system which works

• Individuals with loved ones who have experienced complex trauma

• Individuals with an interest in complex trauma and CBT

• Individuals who was to increase their confidence and knowledge of complex trauma and CBT