Understand the causes and impacts of trauma and how to effectively respond

When: Coming 2025
Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm
Duration: 7 hours (both days)
Location: Online

At 360Edge, we know trauma inside and out. This workshop covers everything you need to know to be able to understand and respond to trauma in the alcohol and other drug sector in a sensitive and evidence based way. You will come away with clear frameworks for understanding trauma and an effective toolkit in this essential area of practice.

Go deeper into understanding and responding to trauma and enhance your knowledge, skills and confidence in working with people who have experienced trauma. Building on our Responding to Trauma workshop, you will deepen your knowledge of trauma and practice advanced strategies to effectively support people with trauma symptoms in alcohol and other drug treatment.

Learning outcomes

• Apply a model for responding to trauma to the specific context of alcohol and other drug treatment
• Increase your range of sensitive responses to trauma disclosure
• Understand how to integrate trauma into screening, assessment and treatment
• Recognise a range of trauma-related mental health conditions, signs and symptoms
• Develop detailed case conceptualisation and treatment planning for clients with co-occurring alcohol and other drug use and trauma
• Integrate effective approaches for stabilising trauma symptoms, so that you and your clients can get the best from their alcohol and drug care

Who should attend

This is an advanced skills workshop suitable for experienced and advanced practitioners. We recommend you do our Working with trauma workshop before attending this workshop. This workshop is suitable for workers in clinical settings.

Facilitator: Dr Richard Cash

“Dr Richard Cash [has extensive] experience, knowledge and confidence in providing clarity around trauma informed approaches in AOD practitioner role. Provision of concrete examples, sample questions and cases”

- Workshop participant 2023