The Anatomy of the Severely Wounded: The Addiction Trauma Connection

Provider: Anneshia Freeman and Associates Consulting Services, LLC

Category: Specific

Hours: 6

Training Objectives

This training is for beginning-level, intermediate-level, and advance-level therapists, case managers, and recovery coaches. This will be an interactive training consisting of lecture, exercises, and case studies of three people who were severely wounded in early childhood and self-medicated for years. The training will be presented in a problem/solution format.

Participants will be able to articulate:

• The definition of trauma
• The impact of childhood trauma
  • ACE Data
• How the severely wounded process internal and external stimuli
• How the severely wounded make decisions based on their interpretation of stimuli
• How some service providers misinterpret the actions of the severely wounded
• The trauma addiction connection
• The wounded service provider
• Strategies for engaging the severely wounded
• How to help the severely wounded heal
  • Trauma informed care
  • Trauma interventions
  • Combining trauma-interventions and substance use disorder treatment