AASW Webinar Recording | Emotional Regulation and Communication Skills for Complex Trauma

Capability Levels: Evolving; Established

“In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you.” Deepak Chopra.

Social Workers and human service professionals across all settings are consistently called upon to respond to individuals and families in periods of heightened emotional stress. We see in our clients, and sometimes in our colleagues or ourselves, the struggle to emotionally and cognitively regulate in the face of mental and physical illness, violence, disempowerment, or miscommunication. Life can be very tough for some and “keeping stillness” in the chaos sometimes requires extra support.

This training will take you on a journey to discover the development of regulation, look at what can divert us from that pathway, and propose practical skills for every therapist and case manager to work with and improve emotional regulation in our clients.

Who should register?

This training is an introduction primarily for those working in therapeutic relationships with clients. However, if you work in non-therapeutic social work or case management roles, this training will still be of benefit in better understanding and responding to your service users when they display dysregulated behaviours in the face of intense stressors.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Identify the developmental stages of emotional regulation
• Make an assessment from a bio-psycho-social-cultural perspective of emotional regulation as a functional life skill
• Work with the bodily responses to threat that are present during periods of dysregulation
• Reference a toolkit of strategies for working with individuals, dyads and families to enhance emotional coping

AASW Credentials: Mental Health; Clinical; Family Violence

Testimonials

• "Strong conceptual framework developed by this engaging presenter (Shannon) and I will be able to apply this in all aspects of my clinical work. Really invigorating!"
• "As someone who has attended many trainings on trauma throughout my career, this webinar was a welcome breath of fresh air. The presenter is highly knowledgeable and managed to cover more ground in this webinar than other 2-day trainings I have been to. Good overview of key concepts and theory without excessively retreading old ground that would already be familiar to most of us working in the field. I enjoyed the strong focus on application in direct social work practice with clients, while weaving in opportunities for reflective practice and looking at organisational and systemic change."
• "Brilliant training. Very useful!"