Treating the Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Incest

Course Description

Continuing Education Hours: 8.5

This course will focus on working with adults and children that have experienced sexual abuse and incest. It will focus on how to approach work and healing from a self-regulation and trauma-informed approach. Participants will discover ways to regulate themselves and to understand how to take a different approach to treatment and support that is strength and growth based. The training will use somatic and attachment-based work that supports clients in healing from the inside out.

Learning Objectives

  • Participants will know how to heal sexualized trauma from a trauma-informed lens
  • Participants will know ways of working with survivors through targeting self-regulation
  • Participants will know types of trauma responses that can be unique to sexualized trauma and incest and the impact on relationships
  • Participants will know how to stay regulated when working with this client group
  • Participants will know self-regulation activities and body-based interventions that can be used with this client group
  • Participants will know the importance of psychoeducation for this group and draft usable scripts to help clients understand how their brains and bodies may have been impacted by this trauma

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Arizona Trauma Institute
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Mesa, Arizona 85202

Office: (480) 442-1840

Email: help@aztrauma.org