DPP- Long Term Impact of Childhood Trauma on Adult Offe

Long Term Impact of Childhood Trauma on Adult Offenders

This six hour course will focus on the lingering effects of unresolved childhood trauma (physical abuse, sexual abuse, and witnessing domestic violence). The correlation between childhood victimization and dysfunctional, and criminal, outcomes will be examined and explored. Likewise these dysfunctional outcomes will be assessed and filtered through the lens of trauma survival. Key assumptions and strategies for implementing a Trauma-Informed approach will be discussed. This course involves lectures and collaborative activities.

Location: PSETC Sykesville
Dates of Class: 04/08/2015 - 04/08/2015
Approval Number: Pending
Approved Hours: 6
Price: 0.00

This course is designed to introduce criminal justice practitioners to the lingering effects of unresolved childhood trauma (physical abuse, sexual abuse, and witnessing domestic violence). Topics to be covered include physical abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, correlation between victimization and adverse conditions, categories of effects/dysfunctional outcomes of childhood trauma, effective intervention, roles in the treatment of and creation of a trauma-informed approach for clients with dysfunctional outcomes related to childhood trauma, and vicarious trauma.