You will Learn

  • Strategies to reduce the stigma and increase your supporting language

  • An assessment tool that provides a more detailed evaluation of the client’s “trauma experience” as well as the trauma stages as it relates to Behavioral Issues Disorders.

  • Understand the different trauma types and their impact on both the psychological and physiological health of a client and the professional’s role in effective referral and trauma treatment

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Exploring Trauma Triggers and Their Impact on Substance Abuse Disorders

    • Welcome to your CEU Webinar

    • Video Presentation - Exploring Trauma Triggers and Their Impact on Substance Abuse Disorders

    • Copy of Presentation Slides

    • Quiz: Trauma Triggers

    • Course Review Survey

Instructor(s)

Executive Director Gateway Foundation

Jim Scarpace

Jim Scarpace is Executive Director at Gateway Foundation in Aurora, Illinois. Jim has over 25 years of experience in the mental health, substance use disorder and criminal justice field. He has his Masters degree in Clinical Psychology and has been licensed clinical professional counselor for the last nineteen years. He currently is also an assistant professor at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and has taught graduate classes in clinical and forensic psychology. His areas of expertise include Addiction, Trauma, Group Therapy, Crisis intervention, Family Therapy and advocacy.