TLC offers courses
designed to enable schools, crisis teams, child and family counselors,
and private practitioners to help traumatized children. Online courses
are also available.
Click on a course below to read a description.
Attend the three required Level-1 courses and get
Certified from home! All you need to do is successfully complete any
two TLC online courses and an essay exam to get your Certification.
Professional CEUs
ONLINE!
All online courses provide professional CEUs. The cost
is $100 per course. Essay exams are $175. Some courses include books/resources.
We continue to add new courses, so keep checking our listings.
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online course!
Learn the differences between
grief and trauma and come to know trauma as an experience rather
than a diagnostic category. Learn how to become a “witness” to
a child’s traumatic experience to best appreciate the intensity
of the experience and the needs of the child; to see what he now
sees as he looks at himself and the world around him. Video-taped
interviews will demonstrate how TLC’s evidence-based, structured
sensory intervention process brings children relief from the terror
of their traumatic experiences. This structured process is used in
schools and agencies across the country and has been proven, via
research, to reduce trauma-specific reactions across all three major
sub-categories. When participating in the TLC Certification Program each
participant will receive the TLC DVD, Tools to Help the Helper. Upon
completion a certificate will be handed out. This course is worth
6 contact hours for continuing education.
Learn trauma-specific intervention
tasks and techniques as well as see them demonstrated. This is a
practice day. The presenter engages attendees in an encapsulated
demonstration of the major sensory structured processes. Attendees
will also participate in additional activities and, by days end,
will feel comfortable using any of the TLC intervention programs.
A brief presentation of the TLC evidence-based research and outcome
will support the value of TLC’s structured sensory programs
in schools and agencies. The complete intervention programs are available
to conference attendees at a reduced price. The Trauma Intervention
Program is a comprehensive individual program for children 6-12
years old and adolescents 13-18 years old. I Feel Better Now!
Intervention Program is a group program for 6-12 years olds. What
Color is Your Hurt? is an individual program for preschoolers
3-6 years old. If you would like to order any of these intervention
programs for pick-up at the conference, please check the appropriate
boxes on the registration form. When participating in the TLC Certification
Program, the TLC book, Structured Sensory Interventions
for Traumatized Children, Adolescents and Parents will
be given to all attendees.
Trauma
Debriefing in Schools and Agencies Level-1
(Required)
The TLC Debriefing Model
fits with the uniqueness of school and agency settings. The models
address the developmental issues, time and resource constraints,
needs of staff as well as students/clients, administrative issues
and trauma response issues. Five models are demonstrated: Debriefing
for adolescents and adults, Defusing for K-5th grade, Operational
Debriefing for all staff, Debriefing the Debriefers, Crisis Team
members or first respondents and Classroom Presentation which is
different than debriefing and usually initiated before the start
of debriefing. The TLC Debriefing Model is the outcome of work
with over 1,500 professionals who have participated in debriefing
training. The purchase of the Debriefing Handbook, although
recommended, is optional. It answers over 100 questions frequently
asked about debriefing in schools and agencies and presents each
model into a 5" x 8" format for duplication in a card
format to be used during debriefing sessions. It is available at
the conference for a reduced price.
Learn what to do in the
days following a trauma when crisis intervention may be needed. Tragedies,
like Hurricane Katrina and 9/11, leave behind devastation and destruction.
Because victims are constantly reminded of the trauma, their state
of crisis is prolonged and heightened. Very specific intervention
techniques will be demonstrated which are designed to stabilize those
in crisis in the days that follow exposure, at a time when specific
trauma intervention would not be appropriate.
This presentation provides
the participant trauma-specific play therapy strategies. Strategies
(puppets, sand tray, and other mediums) will be demonstrated and
critical therapeutic guidelines related to their use will be highlighted.
A review of the most current trauma-specific books for use in sessions
will also be presented. Participants will also take part in activities
using some the materials discussed.
Always different, this
presentation brings nationally recognized leaders in trauma intervention.
TLC has hosted Denis Donovan, Babette Rothschild, Linda Peterson,
Beverly James, Lenore Terr, Alan Wolfelt, Al Siebert, Ileana Gill
and others. Some descriptions include: Ready...Set...R.E.L.A.X. and Children
in Distress: Screening Children's Art
AVAILABLE
ONLINE This presentation focuses on understanding
the physiology of trauma by understanding the normal life-preserving
survival responses of flight/fight/freeze
in an individual and how they fulfill natures species-preserving
function. Investigating the disturbance of these responses forms the
essential foundation for understanding symptoms that results in Post-Traumatic
Stress and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Trauma is fundamentally
a highly activated incomplete psycho-physiological response to threat,
frozen in time. What is significant in the resolution of trauma is
the completion of incompleted responses to threat and the ensuing discharge
of the energy that was mobilized for survival.
Cost of taking this
course online is $100 which includes CEUs. Upon successful
completion of assignments tests and evaluation, a certificate
will be sent out. This course provides 6 continuing education
contact hours.
This presentation will
focus on the instinctual survival roll of activation/arousal and
the mechanisms that perpetuate it once the traumatic incident or
threat has passed. Procedures that will directly aid in managing
and reducing and discharging activation that occurs during a traumatic
incident will be demonstrated and discussed. Understanding how
to reduce and allow for gradual discharge of Autonomic Nervous
System (ANS) hyperarousal enhances the success of resolving the
trauma and aids in restoration of homeostasis and balance, and
a return to normal functioning.
Using
Children's Drawings in Art and Play Therapy Level-2
Art and drawing help
traumatized children externalize and concretize their experience
in a language that can then be cognitively reframed. Sensory-based
interventions are key in facilitating trauma debriefing, re-enactment,
and resolution. This course provides a foundation for why drawing
and art activities enhance trauma intervention and our understanding
of PTSD in children. Participants will learn how to recognize the
signs of PTSD in childrens art and specific interventions
for use in schools, shelters, hospitals and clinics.
ONLINE
COURSE This presentation will identify warning
signs and high risk factors leading to suicidal attempts. Characteristics
of potentially suicidal child/youth, specific interventions
strategies and skills including legal responsibilities, assessment
of risk and what is necessary to help prevent contagion following
an actual completion. Develop specific intervention skills
with survivors of suicide including organized responses necessary
in school settings and the ways grief following suicide differs
from grief following non-suicidal losses. Purchase of the TLC
book, A Handbook of Intervention Following Suicide or Trauma
in Schools is optional, but recommended, and available
to conference attendees at the reduced rate of $20.
Cost of taking this
course online is $100 which includes CEUs and the TLC book, Handbook
of Intervention Following Suicide or Trauma in Schools,
which will be shipped to the participant. Upon successful completion
of assignments tests and evaluation, a certificate will be
sent out. This course provides 6 continuing education contact
hours.
The Case Study documents
that the participant has had extensive training in the TLC outcome-based
interventions for traumatized children, adolescents and parents.
It formally documents the participants ability to integrate knowledge
with practice.
Ready...Set...
R.E.L.A.X. All Levels
Ready...Set...R.E.L.A.X.
with Roger Klein
Provides
5 contact hours of CE's for Social Workers pain
symptom management requirements in addition to
the CE credits listed
here.
Stress affects children,
as well as adults. This workshop examines the physiological
and psychological effects of stress on children, and details
a program designed to reduce anxiety and improve self-concept
in children. The program includes self-guided stories, discussion
questions and activities, and emphasizes imagery and relaxation.
Workshop participants learn specific interventions to use with
individual children or groups of children in schools, health
care facilities, clinical settings and the home. Lecture, demonstrations
(live and video), discussions and time for practicing the techniques
are all included in the day’s activities.
Guest
Lectures All Levels
TLC is pleased to bring
you Guest Lectures of varied topics.
Assembly
Workshop All Levels
TLC is pleased to bring
you Assembly Workshops of varied topics dealing with trauma and loss,
helpful interventions for infants, children, adolescents, and families,
art, play, helping the helper, and others. Presenters typically come
from all over the country, work in the trauma field, and are eager
to share their experience and knowledge with Assembly attendees.
Essay
Exam Level-1
Optional
AVAILABLE
ONLINE The Essay Exam is not a requirement for
Certification. It is offered as an option for those who do
not have the funding or time to travel to a TLC training to
attend the remaining two required courses for Level-1 Certification.
Anyone who has taken
the following three prerequisite courses is eligible to take
the Essay Exam in order to complete their Level-l Certification:
Children of Trauma
Structured Sensory
Interventions, and
Trauma
Debriefing
There are two exams available.
One is for those who are applying for Clinical Specialist Certification
and another for those applying for School Specialist Certification.
The cost is $175 to take one exam. The exam does NOT provide CEU's.
About the exam: It
is a comprehensive essay exam that will take anywhere from 4 to
8 hours to complete, depending upon the person. It can be submitted
to TLC for credit up to 6 months from date of purchase of the exam.
TLC's book, A Handbook
of Interventions following Suicide or Trauma in School,
is included in the School Specialist Exam. All other materials
needed to complete the exam can be found online and in articles
on our web site. Participants will also use information from
the SITCAP book, which they will already have already
received from the course, Children of Trauma.
The Essay Exams are available
online. Click
here to sign up to take the exam online. You may also call
the TLC office toll-free at 877-306-5256 to register for the exam
and have it mailed to you.
Essay
Exam Level-2
Required
AVAILABLE
ONLINE This exam is the final step in obtaining
Level-2 TLC Trauma and Loss Consultant Certification.
CEUs are not available for this exam.
The Essay Exams are available
online. Click
here to sign up to take the exam online. You may also call
the TLC office toll-free at 877-306-5256 to register for the exam
and have it mailed to you.
Essay
Exam Level-3
Required
AVAILABLE
ONLINE This exam is the final step in obtaining
Level-3 TLC Trauma and Loss Consultant Supervisor Certification.
CEUs are not available for this exam.
The Essay Exams are
available online. Click
here to sign up to take the exam online. You may also call
the TLC office toll-free at 877-306-5256 to register for the
exam and have it mailed to you.
Reaching
and Teaching Stressed and Anxious Students
AVAILABLE
ONLINE In every classroom there are students
who have experienced grievous losses. For some, these
losses have been multiple; for some, they have been sudden
and shocking, throwing the entire family into crisis. The
feelings that may be experienced under the umbrella of fear
include a sense of abandonment, betrayal, helplessness, shame,
hopelessness, disappointment, sadness, grief and depression. While these
feelings emerge out of perceptions or interpretations, not
reality, the feelings are very real to youngsters and ultimately
drive their behaviors, that is, until the feelings are transformed. The
appropriate behaviors cannot be resolved until the children
have had an opportunity to symbolically process and integrate
their loss.
The good news
is that there is a wealth of sensory activities that permit
children to connect with the overwhelming memories
in order to externalize the imprint of terror and helplessness
and over come it. This course will provide the information
and interventions needed for teachers to reach and teach
these students.
Cost of taking this course
online is $100 which includes CEUs. Upon successful completion
of assignments tests and evaluation, a certificate will be sent
out. This course provides 6 continuing education contact hours.
AVAILABLE
ONLINE This course will provide you with the
background and tools needed to work with infants and toddlers
and their caregivers after they have experienced a traumatic
situation. You will learn how to educate parents, facilitate
secure attachments and reduce arousal reactions so that healing
can occur.
Cost of taking this
course online is $100 which includes CEUs and the TLC book, Handbook
of Trauma Interventions: Zero to Three, which will be
shipped to the participant. Upon successful completion of assignments
tests and evaluation, a certificate will be sent out. This
course provides 6 continuing education contact hours.
AVAILABLE
ONLINE Adolescents are not supposed to
experience death. Although it should never happen, the harsh
reality is that it does, and when it does, it is a terrible
shock for the adolescent. This course will help you, as the
caring adult, be a guide through this troubling time by helping
you understand what the adolescent is going through and giving
you comprehensive techniques to address the situation. This
is a time when a caring, unassuming adult can make a positive
difference in a young person by fostering growth and maturity.
Cost of taking this
course online is $100 which includes CEUs. Upon successful
completion of assignments tests and evaluation, a certificate
will be sent out. This course provides 6 continuing education
contact hours.
AVAILABLE
ONLINE With a commitment to providing
best practice interventions, ethical perspective and decision-making
remain paramount. This presentation allows practitioners the
opportunity to review their professional code of ethics and
learn where ethical dilemmas impact both the populations we
serve and those issues present with complicated grieving and
trauma interventions. A framework to work through and arrive
at the most ethical response will be presented.
Cost of taking this
course online is $100 which includes CEUs. Upon successful
completion of assignments tests and evaluation, a certificate
will be sent out. This course provides 6 continuing education
contact hours. This online course
fulfills Michigan Social Workers requirements.
AVAILABLE
ONLINE This course defines the relationship between trauma
experiences and pain. Sensory-based interventions are identified
giving intervenors tools to help manage and alleviate the pain felt
by the children and adults with whom they work.
This course fulfills
the pain management continuing education requirement for Social Workers
in the State of Michigan and provides 1 CE credit. Cost of course
is $25.
AVAILABLE
ONLINE This course defines posttraumatic growth
and resilience. It provides participants with a working knowledge
of factors commonly associated with resilience and posttraumatic
growth in children. Strategies and sensory-based activities to
help identify and support resilience and encourage posttraumatic
growth in children are presented.
Cost of taking this course
online is $100 which includes CEUs. Upon successful completion
of assignments tests and evaluation, a certificate will be sent
out. This course provides 6 continuing education contact hours.
Art, Play, Music, Drama & Bibliotherapy:
Advanced Skills
Level-2
Teacher:
Cathy Malchiodi
AVAILABLE
ONLINE This comprehensive course teaches a wide
range of creative interventions for working with traumatized
children. The teacher, Cathy
Malchiodi, is an internationally renowned speaker
and author with over 25 years of experience as an art therapist.
She has worked with survivors of traumatic experiences, including
domestic violence, physical and sexual abuse, disaster and serious
or life threatening illness. In this course she demonstrates sensory-based
techniques that significantly enhance trauma therapy by providing
children the opportunity to express their trauma experience through
multiple creative approaches.
Purchase of the book, Creative
Interventions with Traumatized Children, by Cathy A. Malchiodi,
2008 Guilford Publications, ISBN:1593856156 (332 pages) is required
reading for successful completion of this course. For your convenience,
this book is available for purchase for $38 from the TLC Online Bookstore. Click
here to go to the TLC Online Bookstore.
The cost of taking this course online is $100 which
includes CEUs. Upon successful
completion of assignments tests and evaluation, a certificate will
be sent out. This course provides 6 continuing education contact
hours and also provides 6 contact hours for Play
Therapy (APT approved provider 01-108).
AVAILABLE
ONLINE This online course will provide
valuable information on how you can address the needs of youth
who witness domestic violence. Participants will learn about
the dynamics of domestic violence, effects of witnessing domestic
violence on children, how parenting is affected, and best practices
in responding to youth who are exposed to domestic violence.
Anyone working in the community will be better equipped to address
the needs of families who have experienced the trauma of domestic
violence.
Cost of taking this course
online is $100 which includes CEUs. Upon successful completion
of assignments tests and evaluation, a certificate will be sent
out. This course provides 6 continuing education contact hours.
AVAILABLE
ONLINE There
is a high correlation between traumatic stress and low achievement
and disruptive behaviors
in schools. Sharing this information with colleagues and generating
school policies that better meet the needs of stressed students can
be a challenge. This course will give you the knowlege and
tools to guide you in your efforts to make your school trauma
informed.
Cost of taking this course
online is $100 which includes CEUs. Upon successful completion
of assignments tests and evaluation, a certificate will be sent
out. This course provides 6 continuing education contact hours.