DOUBLE SESSION

Treating Serious Mental Illness With Innovative Trauma-Informed Care Techniques

With a national focus on mental health treatment in jails, there is added pressure to adopt a trauma-informed lens when treating patients with serious mental illness. Patients with SMI often pose significant challenges to behavioral management in correctional settings. This presentation will describe innovative trauma-informed care techniques designed to promote prosocial behavior and ways to optimize outcomes when interacting with SMI patients in a carceral setting.

Educational Objectives

• Define trauma-informed care within the context of a correctional setting
• Describe how innovative trauma-informed care techniques can increase prosocial behaviors among incarcerated patients with serious mental illness
• Explore how implementing a trauma-informed care lens can reduce challenges in the behavioral management of incarcerated patients with SMI

Level:Basic

Trauma Informed De-Escalation

De-escalation is what should be exercised during a crisis situation in an effort to prevent a person from causing harm to you, themselves, or others. This training is intended for administrators, teachers, staff members, youth workers, social workers, and anybody who works with kids and wishes to understand more about the process of trauma informed de-escalation and the benefits it has on the facility's culture and climate.

Educational Objectives

• Explain differentiated strategies for verbal de-escalation
• Describe how crises impact the brain and body
• Discuss how to help youth in crisis who may have a history of trauma

Level:Basic