Continuing Education Credit: 10 contact hours

Time to Complete Course: 90-days

Course Goal
Course Participants will learn about the trauma induction and reduction process; how to consider the most appropriate assessment and diagnostic instruments; how resiliency and stress reactions are determined in part by the history and current social resources; how to classify the presenting symptoms of the traumatized and determine the best intervention approach from an array of approaches. This distance learning course satisfies Part B of the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology Certified Traumatologist criteria.

Course Objectives: Students who complete this course will:

• Recognize the continuum of post-traumatic stress responses and disorders from the perspective of trauma theory.
• Recognize the major symptoms of acute and chronic post-traumatic stress disorders, including possible implications for personality development.
• Recognize and be able to discuss how symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorders may be misdiagnosed.
• Identify at least five (5) instruments used to assess disorders associated with traumatic stress and discuss the potential merits and deficits of each.
• Recognize the utility of phase-oriented treatment with trauma survivors.
• Describe methods to help clients to establish inter- and intrapersonal safety including self-soothing and symptom containment skills.
• Compare and contrast six (6) PTSD treatments methods.
• Discuss how the therapist may effectively employ the "self" as a tool for healing.

Continuing Education Credit: 1 contact hour

Time to Complete Course: 7 days

Objective: To provide an overview of compassion stress and compassion fatigue. In this course, you will learn:

• Define compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout
  
• Differentiate between burnout and compassion fatigue
  
• List at least five symptoms of compassion stress/compassion fatigue
  
• List at least five means of reducing compassion stress

Continuing Education Credit: 2 contact hours

Time to Complete Course: 7 days

Goal: To provide each course participant with the knowledge and skills necessary to reduce the secondary impact of working with traumatized people.

Objectives:

• Articulates the developmental history of compassion fatigue including countertransference, caregiver stress, burnout, vicarious traumatization, and secondary traumatic stress.
• Differentiates between compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and vicarious traumatization.
• Articulates current theoretical models for the etiology and transmission of compassion fatigue.

Continuing Education: 1 contact hour

Time to Complete Course: 7 days

Goal: To provide each participant with the knowledge and skills necessary to reduce the secondary impact of working with traumatized populations.

Objective: In this course you will learn how to “Do No Harm” to those you serve by adhering to the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology’s Standards of Self-Care, and how to teach others to do the same.

Prerequisite: Compassion Stress Management Overview (CSM 100)

Continuing Education Credit: 2 contact hours

Time to Complete Course: 7 days

Goal: To provide each participant with the knowledge and skills necessary to reduce the secondary impact of working with traumatized populations.

Objectives: In this course you will learn how to conduct a compassion stress assessment by focusing on the individual’s personal life; and how to teach others to do the same.

Continuing Education Credit: 8 contact hours

Time to Complete Course: 14 days

CERT 100 - Compassion Fatigue Educator Certification Course is the combination of the following individual courses within the Figley Institute Learning Center:

- CSM 100: Compassion Stress Management Overview
- CSM 101: Compassion Fatigue History, Theory & Overview
- CSM 102: Ethics of Compassion Stress Management
- CSM 103: Stress Assessment - Personal
- CSM 104: Stress Assessment - Professional
- CSM 105: Relaxation, Self Soothing and Compassion Stress Management
- CSM 106: Creating and Maintaining a Self-Care Plan

Please see the individual course descriptions for more details on each course.

Continuing Education: 2 contact hour

Time to Complete Course: 7 days

Goal: The goal of this course is to provide each participant with the knowledge and skills necessary to reduce the secondary impact of working with traumatized populations.

Objectives: In this course you will learn to how to describe and demonstrate compassion stress management techniques.

Continuing Education Credit: 4 contact hours

Goal: To provide course participants with knowledge and skills that help them identify, understand and use characteristics, attributes, concepts and support systems, which the bereaved can implement and utilize in their lives for them selves and others.

Objectives:

• Investigates factors that make it more likely for someone to constructively respond to adversity and use their experience as a catalyst for positive growth, change and altruistic actions.
• Identifies reactions to complicated grief and normalizes individualized responses and coping strategies.
• Explains areas found most beneficial in the experience of altruistic mourners, including meaning and control; purpose; appreciation of human life and new priorities; personal responsibility; and the experience of something beyond our selves.
• Clarifies past and existing expectations of those supporting and helping the bereaved.
• Increases the likelihood that mourners and those who support them will use the experience of death, grief and loss in a constructive manner to create positive change.