The Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist – Family (CCTS-F) course presented by Camea Peca, PhD, is designed using evidenced-based leading edge interventions and protocols that clinicians can immediately implement to augment their work treating survivors of trauma within a family context. This course is taught using demonstrations, role play, simulations, and the utilization of a clinician intervention implementation format. The Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist – Family (CCTS-F) course examines the (dynamic elements/active ingredients) of trauma treatment, allowing the learner to increase their effectiveness with any model of family treatment in which they have training. The (dynamic elements/active ingredients) approach will aid clinicians in addressing and resolving client and family traumatic stress even when other primary diagnoses are present. The design and implementation of treatment can have a powerful transformational effect that rapidly accelerates treatment.
This course meets the educational requirements for the Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist – Family (CCTS-F) certification available through the Trauma Institute International.
Arizona Trauma Institute is approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) to grant Continuing education credit for live workshops. ACEP number is 6677. Total Clock Hours Awarded: 18
Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Case Managers • Addiction Counselors Therapists • Marriage & Family Therapists • Other Mental Health Professionals
The Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist – Family (CCTS-F) course emphasizes a balance between the science and skill of treating traumatic stress, and the development of cross-cutting competencies in clinicians. Clinicians will learn both principles and techniques for rapidly and safely accelerating treatment with clients who suffer from traumatic stress. The course teaches clinicians how to think critically and incisively to:
(1) conceptualize the specific tasks within each of the (dynamic elements/active ingredients) of treatment;
(2) efficiently and effectively bring resolution and healing;
(3) learn how to explain the symptoms of traumatic stress to clients and their family in a way that helps makes “good sense” of their experiences;
(4) maximizes engagement and collaboration in the healing process;
(5) develop skills for helping trauma survivors rapidly stabilize and utilize skills for self-regulation;
(6) learn empirical markers to know when it is safe to transition from the safety/stabilization phase of treatment into the trauma memory processing phase without guesswork and minimal crises;
(7) construct verbal, graphic, and non-verbal trauma narratives—identified by research as one of the critical ingredients in resolving traumatic stress;
(8) demonstrate state-of-the-art techniques and activities for supporting and facilitating healthy bereavement;
(9) learn when to support natural mourning processes; and,
(10) learn when to offer facilitation when the natural mourning processes become thwarted to be able to confidently manage the trajectory of treatment with survivors of trauma from diagnosis to termination.
The goal is to build both clinical trauma expertise and professional confidence to significantly reduce client crises and allow treatment to move forward at an accelerated pace.
1. Demonstrate the ability to identify and utilize the evidence-based “Active Ingredients” for successful trauma treatment;
2. Demonstrate the ability to conceptualize and organize family treatment to implement the active ingredients to improve clinical outcomes
3. Demonstrate the ability to develop and enhance therapeutic relationship & positive expectancy with the entire family through the application of the active ingredient
4. Demonstrate the ability to teach families the role that perceived threat and the Autonomic Nervous System plays in the development and continuation of traumatic stress symptoms and other difficult behaviors
5. Demonstrate the ability to achieve, maintain and teach relaxation and self-regulation skills
6. Demonstrate the ability to understand causes, symptoms and treatment of traumatic stress sufficiently to provide comprehensive psychoeducation to clients
7. Demonstrate the ability to assess family dynamics sufficiently to identify the impact of traumatic stress
8. Demonstrate the ability to help trauma survivors achieve “good enough” safety and stabilization
9. Demonstrate the ability to utilize Cognitive-Behavioral Method(s) to help survivors successfully desensitize and reprocess trauma memories 3rd active ingredient
10. Demonstrate the ability to assist clients successfully resolve the grief and other peripheral issues accompanying treatment of traumatic stress
11. Demonstrate the ability to assist clients with the re-connection phase of treatment and the moving forward into a future that is deliberate and intentional
12. How can Trauma interventions and evaluations be conducted to sustain therapeutic alliance?
Credits listed below are for full attendance of the live training. Attendees will sign in upon arrival and after lunch. At the end of the training, attendees will be given an evaluation to complete. After completing the evaluation attendees will receive a certificate of completion for the training.
Arizona Trauma Institute does not issue partial certificates of completion.
NOTE: Credits do not include time for breaks or lunch.
CE Hours Awarded: 18
Dr. Peca has spent over 18 years working with Adults, Children and Families in a vast range of settings both locally and abroad. After completing a Bachelor of Science at ASU, Camea spent 10 years abroad studying and working. During this time, she completed a MSc in Psychoanalytic Development Psychology at the Anna Freud Center/University College London including a dissertation in Sensory Integration Therapy and Tactile and Vestibular Processing Disorder. During this training Camea was trained by leaders in attachment and infant development including Dr. Peter Fonagy and Mary Target.
She later completed specialized Adult training with a Graduate Diploma in the Application of Arts in Therapy and Education at the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (IATE), London. Dr Peca is trained in the use of all 7 Expressive Arts modalities including dance/movement/body work and has completed her own experiential work in each modality.
She completed an additional Graduate Diploma in Child Counselling using the Expressive Arts at IATE. As a part of this training Camea had the chance to work with the Child Center for Mental Health and participating in specialty training with leaders in the expressive arts as well as Sir Richard Bowlby, Dr. Dan Hughes, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Bruce Perry, and many others. Camea also participated in three years of the MA in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy for adults. She completed clinical training and supervision in the Expressive Arts with Dr. Margot Sunderland and the Helping Where It Hurts program which puts expressive arts therapists in inner city London schools as well as adult clinical placement in the outpatient Arts Therapy for the National Health Service, London.
Camea has completed her PhD in Psychology with an emphasis on Cognition and Instruction, which focused specifically on adults.
Professionally Camea has worked in a variety of settings including adolescent shelters, inpatient psychiatric units, outpatient services, schools and specialty projects targeting physical and sexualized trauma.
Camea also works with adults providing trauma based coaching services using the body and teaching self-regulation skills as well as building relational skills. Camea uses a Salutogenic approach and incorporates the integration of the brain and the body holistically targeting sleeping, nutrition, and movement.
Event Location
Arizona Trauma Institute
49 South Sycamore Street, Suite 2
Mesa, Arizona 85202
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