Trauma-Informed Care (TIC): Optimizing the Role of TIC in Mainstream Clinical Practice
Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global and Continuing Education accredits an exciting one-day online course entitled Trauma-Informed Care (TIC): Optimizing the Role of TIC in Mainstream Clinical Practice. In this course, a multidisciplinary group of experts will present on optimizing the role of trauma-informed care in mainstream clinical practice. The number of traumatized patients in a primary healthcare setting is estimated at 23% of all patient visits. This includes early life experiences related to childhood abuse, gender-based violence, and the tragedies experienced in everyday life, including serious medical illnesses. This course includes not only a comprehensive introduction to the TIC model, but also culturally-valid and evidence-based instruments to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of culturally diverse patients. The TIC physical exam, the neuroscience of trauma, stress, and resiliency, counseling, the Trauma Story, coping with the challenges of emergency nursing, and self-care will be addressed.
Learning objectives:
- Comprehensive and concise update on the role of trauma-informed care in mainstream clinical practice.
- Guidance on identifying and treating traumatized patients and family members.
- Learn how to evaluate and counsel traumatized patients using a culturally-effective Trauma Story approach.
- Obtain strategies to improve the clinical relationship and clinical outcomes of culturally-diverse patients.
- Understand the important role of trauma-informed care in nursing.
- Master the special attention needed to care for highly-traumatized patients.
Benefits of the program include:
- HPRT 11-Point Clinical Toolkit
- New H5 Model
- The Trauma Story
- HSCL-25, HTQ and other evidence-based screen instruments
- TIC Physical Examinations
- Neuroscience of Trauma, Stress, and Resiliency
- Balint Group Experience
- Cultural Communication with Traumatized Populations
- TIC Pocket Cards
Who should attend?
Physicians, PAs, nurses, obstetrics, pediatrics, mental health practitioners, medical students and residents, healthcare practitioners caring for refugees, immigrants, and other highly-traumatized populations.