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Addressing Childhood and Developmental Trauma including ACE Study: Brief Strategies and Interventions

Presented by Carissa Muth, Psy.D., CCC, R.Psych

Live Streaming on June 26, 2025

$244.00

6 Hours | Pre-approved for CEU’s

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Description

This workshop will be live streaming to online participants on June 26, 2025 from 8:30am – 4:00pm (Vancouver, BC)
Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone. 

Recorded footage and all course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until July 27, 2025. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Please allow 3 – 10 business days after the course airs for recorded footage to become available.

Registration will close on June 25, 2025. 

In the late 1990’s, the CDC in combination with Kaiser Permanente studied the link between childhood abuse and adult rates of death. This study firmly established a link between childhood experiences and long term mental and physical health outcomes. As 67% of individuals experiences at least one ACE, continued studies have investigated which factors or how many factors are the most influential. In this webinar, Dr. Carissa Muth will present updated data regarding childhood and developmental trauma with a focus on utilizing the research to effectively conceptualize and treat client symptoms. This will include a diagnostic explanation of complex posttraumatic stress disorder and staged treatment methods and interventions. As often the most complex clients have high ACE scores, knowing how to identify and treat these clients can provide hope for those that may feel disregarded.

Why Attend?

  • Increased awareness- Childhood trauma can manifest in adulthood in a myriad of ways and sometimes covertly. As such, knowing the signs and impact of ACEs can aid in treating seemingly treatment resistant clients.
  • Improved resources- Some would argue that personality disorders almost exclusively manifest from childhood abuse. These clients can be disregarded by professionals as noncompliant or too difficult to manage. Understanding roots to behaviours rather than just considering the manifestations of underlying issues can provide additional tools and hope for these typically complex individuals.
  • ACEs
    • Understanding the signs and impact of childhood adverse experiences – overt and covert manifestations
    • Screening for ACEs
    • Cultural factors
  • Understanding trauma
    • Diagnostic factors
    • Assessments
    • Evidenced based treatment methods
    • Differences in treatment for one case versus ongoing trauma exposure
  • Interventions
    • Staged treatment
    • Stabilization phase
      • Interventions that work
      • Increasing client engagement
      • Overview of DBT and specific interventions
    • Trauma treatment
      • Overview of PE, CBT- trauma, CPTSD
      • Importance of common factors
    • Integration
      • Posttraumatic growth
      • Addressing ongoing symptom experiences
      • Establishing reasonable and achievable goals for complex client
  • Identify signs of ACEs- Recognize behaviours that may indicate ACEs and know how to screen and develop a treatment plan to incorporate underlying trauma factors
  • Implement interventions for various stages of treatment for clients with ACEs- Identify which stage a client is in and how to progress forward in treatment
  • Create goals for treatment- Often clients with complex trauma backgrounds will not experience complete recovery from childhood experiences due to the experiences occurring during key developmental phases. Rather than viewing this as hopeless, participants will walk away from this webinar with tools for how to move clients toward living a meaningful life no matter their childhood experiences.

Clinical Professionals: All mental health professionals including, but not limited to Clinical Counsellors, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Hospice and Palliative Care Workers, School Counsellors, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Addiction Specialists, Marital & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants and all professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills.

Carissa Muth, PsyD, RPsych (AB & BC) is the clinical director of Sunshine Coast Health Centre, an inpatient mental health treatment facility. In addition to her role teaching, training, and supervising counselling students, Dr. Muth designs and oversees program development at SCHC. Dr. Muth’s previous experience includes over ten years in private practice as a clinical psychologist providing formal assessments and treatments to adults and adolescents. She specialized in the treatment of addictions, depression, anxiety, and trauma. Her research to date has focused on the intersection between attachment theory and addictions, primarily on the role of family relationships in the recovery process.

RegistrationEarly bird FeeRegular Fee
Individual Enrollment$244.00N/A
Group 3 - 7$194.00N/A
Group 8 - 15$169.00N/A
Group 15+ $144.00N/A
Full-Time Student$144.00N/A

All fees are in Canadian dollars ($CAD) and per person.

Group rates and student discounts are available. Please contact webinars@jackhirose.com for more information.

Fees are per person, seat sharing is not allowed. Please respect this policy, failure to comply will result in termination of access without a refund. For group rates please contact webinars@jackhirose.com

  • Canadian Psychological Association
    The Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW) and the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Social Workers (NLASW) accept CPA-approved continuing education credits

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