Basic Trauma First Aide™ Trainings Information
TFA Basic Class Objectives:
- Recognize and identify 3 or morephysiological/behavioral indicators of acute traumatic stress
- Identify the 3 divisions and basic functions of the brain and their relationship to trauma
- Define "explicit memory" and "implicit memory" and their relationship to trauma
- Recognize the significance of trauma as it relates to the disruption of explicit memory, especially the capacity to learn
- Differentiate between normal stress response and PTSD
- Gain the capacity to work directly with acute traumatic symptoms using basic TFA skills
- Incorporate TFA with prior training in CISM (Critical Incident Stress Management)
- Increase my own awareness of internal diagnostic symptoms of my own stress response
- Incorporate TFA skills as a means of self care and self regulation
- Define 5 principles to guide effective trauma intervention
Who Should Attend?
This training is recommended for individuals who work in high stress environments or in volatile situations including: nurses, therapists, doctors, EMTs/Paramedics, firefighters, law enforcement, military, veterans, teachers, crisis counselors, PT/OT, clergy, educators, Employee Assistance Program managers, risk managers, mediators and disaster workers.
TRAUMA FIRST AIDE™ (TFA) is a stabilization model bridging physiology and psychology. Developed as a short term model, TFA teaches skills to reduce symptoms of acute traumatic stress and to stabilize the nervous system in high arousal and urgent situations. TFA is useful for complex trauma, first response, disaster settings, and as a self-care model. TFA skills help health professionals assist their clients reduce their trauma symptoms, giving them a greater sense of self-control. The TFA approach provides direct access to the dysregulated nervous systems of people who have experienced traumatic situations. This allows the establishment of a bridge in the nervous system between survival mode and a return to normal functioning. This workshop explores the nervous system s role in trauma, differences between cognitive and somatic approaches and the effects of trauma beyond mental health. Viewing typical acute traumatic stress symptoms as a dysregulated mind-body system response, we work directly with the trauma symptoms, using an integrative approach. Our focus in TFA is on trauma education, early intervention and the reduction/prevention of secondary traumatization by building resilience in the nervous system.
Current research shows that trauma contributes to more than mental health problems including an array of physical syndromes involving altered pain processing and increased disease in cardio vascular, nervous and gastrointestinal systems. Recent trauma therapies include working with the nervous system, reestablishing the mind-body connection because trauma is in the nervous system NOT the event!
TRAUMA FIRST AIDE™ is also very useful to help reduce or prevent secondary traumatic stress ('compassion fatigue') in helping professionals. Those most susceptible to this reaction are providers that work with traumatized clients and in traumatic settings including: hospitals, first response situations, disasters and battle zones. The high burnout rate seen in helping professionals may very well be the effects of secondary traumatization. TFA self-care skills are reinforced through practice throughout the class.
TRAUMA FIRST AIDE™ is based on current research on the impact of trauma on the brain and body and on new findings in somatic psychology, neurology and endocrinology. TFA is inspired by the burgeoning field of mind-body therapeutic interventions including: biofeedback, EMDR, yoga, imagery, meditation and Somatic Experiencing?. TRAUMA FIRST AIDE™ was developed by Dr. Geneie Everett and her colleagues after working with survivors of the Asian tsunami in Thailand and Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast.
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