Assessing & Treating Traumatized Adults

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Enhance your clinical skillfulness when working with traumatized adults. This interactive training is designed for mental health professionals and includes a review of the effects of both acute and chronic traumatic stress on an adult’s functioning. Emphasis is on trauma-informed assessment, which ensures clients maintain psychological stability while clinicians gather information crucial to treatment planning. An overview of evidence-based cognitive, emotional, and mindfulness interventions will be provided. Since working with traumatized individuals can lead to compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress, self-care will be addressed. Finally, you will be given resources to further continued professional competence.

Ms. Abruscato teaches graduate courses in the areas of foundation practice, direct practice, and trauma. Her primary area of interest is in the field of trauma-informed care. She is trained in evidence-based interventions for trauma, including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and Prolonged Exposure Therapy.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a 3 hour course that is approved for 3 CEUs by the Nevada Board of Examiners for Social Workers, and the Nevada Board of Examiners for MFTs & CPCs.  In addition, all UNLV Continuing Education professional development courses are approved by IACET where the standard for CEUs is 1 hour = .1 CEU. 

This course has discount registration fees! UNLV Staff and Alumni, visit http://ced.unlv.edu/registration-policies#discounts for more information. Otherwise, email us at continuing.education@unlv.edu to see if you qualify for a discount.

Sorry, we are no longer accepting registrations for this course. Please contact our office to find out if it will be rescheduled, or if alternative classes are available.