Sources For Human Services presents:

Trauma-Informed Resilience Thinking in Clinical Practice

Presented by David Dan, LCSW

April 17, 2015, Belmont Hospital, 4200 Monument Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19131, 5 CEU’s

Note: this training was originally scheduled for March 6th but rescheduled due to the snow emergency

Course Objectives:Participants will be able to describe and discuss:

  1. How brain plasticity provides an opportunity to repair trauma and promote resilience
  2. The basic history of trauma treatment and its implications for our current practice.
  3. “Resilience thinking” as a mindset that facilitates a hopeful, realistic approach to healing and growth of the people they work with.
  4. Two types of resilience, discuss their respective impacts on clinical practice, and differentiate them from “strengths-based” work.
  5. Depictions of problematic behavior into trauma-informed and resilience oriented frames.
  6. Four elements of resilience characteristics and describe how they might manifest in clinical settings.

At least one way in which ecological thinking about resilience contributes to our understanding in the social sciences.

  1. Methodologies of clinical practice that embody resilience thinking, such as agency interviewing, ecomap enhancement, and applications of multiple intelligences.

Cost, When and Where: 4-17-15, 9:30 to 4 pm, Belmont Hospital, 4200 Monument Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19131$130 per person, fee includes 5 clinical training hours, CEU’s, all handouts, certificates, continental breakfast provided, lunch on your own (one hour), PM refreshments

Course Outline: (9:30 to 4 pm, 1 hour for lunch on your own, 2 15’ breaks)

  • Introduction and orientation to methodology of training, including analyses of learning as they apply both to participation in training and in clinical practice. Discussion of what is meant by “resilience thinking” and its relationship to trauma-informed care
  • Discussion of the role of narratives in creating meaning in humans, and impact of trauma on meaning. Brief introduction to techniques of narrative de- and reconstruction as methods to reframe problematic behaviors through trauma-informed and resilience oriented lenses.
  • Example of clinical intervention and small group activity to critique.
  • Use of both pop culture (film and music video) to demonstrate relationship between narratives of anger and of pain, the clinical impact of each, and the “treatment passage.”
  • Review of history of trauma treatment, including the role of social and political context in influencing practice frameworks
  • Discussion of role of neurobiology, a brief review of impact of trauma on the brain and an exploration of the brain’s plasticity and its implications for resilience thinking.
  • Review and discussion of the dynamics of traumatic reenactment
  • Small group work on reframing problematic behaviors from a trauma-informed frame.
  • Discussion of resilience from an ecosystemic point of view and its implications for our work in the social sciences. Group exercise to demonstrate difference between resilience thinking and “strength-based” practice
  • Building a bridge between trauma and resilience
  • Discussion of two types of resilience: homeostatic and transformational
  • Video presentations exemplifying each type of resilience
  • Case presentation and small group discussion to identify each type of resilience
  • Presentation of multiple definitions of ‘resilience characteristics,’ and condensation into four basic elements
  • Introduction of Circle of Courage and other frameworks to exemplify agency, competence, connection, and contribution as methodologies of Type II resilience.
  • Extensive discussion of belonging, using video, group exercise, and referring to brain plasticity and the “unified ecosystem.”
  • Discussion of agency as a continuum, the concept of “double consciousness,” and the role of critical thinking.
  • Group exercise to demonstrate “agency interviewing.”
  • Exploration of competence through application of multiple intelligences. Group exercise
  • Discussion of contribution, the gift cycle, and its impact on social networking.
  • Analysis of video as an attempt to locate concepts discussed in training.
  • Feedback and evaluation.

Presenter:David Dan, LCSW, has worked in public sector mental health for more than twenty-five years. He received his MSW from New York University and has worked in clinical practice, supervision, program development and large-scale systems initiatives. He was involved in the implementation of Community Behavioral Health in Philadelphia and the Enhanced Services for Children initiative through the Philadelphia Department of Human Services. He has served as clinical director of several agencies, where his work has focused on promoting resilience theory and integrating trauma-informed care into community settings.

David has trained and published widely on addictions, family therapy, resilience, and organizational change, including a featured article in the Psychotherapy Networker reflecting on his career in community mental health. He currently works with Resources for Human Development, trains widely throughout Pennsylvania for Community Care Behavioral Health, and presents nationally. He is a faculty member of the Sanctuary Institute and a Fellow of the Center for Non-violence and Social Justice.

CEU Hours:This program is co-sponsored by Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. As a CSWE accredited program, Bryn Mawr College GSSWSR is a pre-approved provider of continuing education for social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists in PA and many other states.

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Directions:: Belmont Center for Comprehensive Treatment, 4200 Monument Road
Philadelphia, PA 19131--using Monument Rd…..cross Ford Road and enter at the second driveway entrance……there is a blue sign indicating Parking Lot C and D. Note the iron fence on left…..After parking, enter the gate door in the fence…you will have to be buzzed in…follow path and the signs to the training room

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Belmont Center for Comprehensive Treatment
4200 Monument Road
Philadelphia, PA 19131
From Center City, South Philadelphia, Airport, Amtrak Station
Take I-76 West to City Avenue (this exit is on the left side of the highway). After making a right at the end of the exit ramp, proceed to the second light, staying in either of the left-hand turn lanes (Monument Road; Channels 6 and 10 are on this corner). Turn left onto Monument and go through second light (Ford Road). Belmont is on the left.
From North, Northeast Philadelphia, Bucks County, Trenton, and Princeton
Take US 1 (Roosevelt Boulevard) South to I-76 West (toward Valley Forge). Get into left lane and take the first exit, City Avenue. After making a right at the end of the exit ramp, proceed to the second light, staying in either of the left-hand turn lanes (Monument Road; Channels 6 and 10 are on this corner). Turn left onto Monument and go through second light (Ford Road). Belmont is on the left.
From Delaware County, Eastern Main Line
Take US 1 (City Avenue) North to Belmont Avenue (Mobil station on corner) and turn right. At first light, turn left onto Ford Road. Proceed to the next light and turn right onto Monument Road. Belmont is on the left.
From King of Prussia and Valley Forge Area
Take I-76 East to City Avenue exit. After making a right at the end of the exit ramp, proceed to the second light, staying in either of the left-hand turn lanes (Monument Road; Channels 6 and 10 or on this corner). Turn left onto Monument and go through second light (Ford Road). Belmont is on left.
From Lower Montgomery County and Route 611 Corridor
From Jenkintown/points North: Take PA 611 South to Washington Lane and turn right. (From Elkins Park, take 611 North to 73 West, then left onto Washington.) Follow Washington into Philadelphia; turn right onto Wayne Avenue. Cross the bridge and turn left onto Johnson Street. Turn left onto Lincoln Drive. Follow signs to City Avenue. Proceed on City to third light, staying in either of the left-hand turn lanes (Monument Road; Channels 6 and 10 are on this corner). Turn left onto Monument and go through second light (Ford Road). Belmont is on left.

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