Training Overview:
This workshop helps participants understand the relationship between trauma and substance use, learn key trauma-informed practices, and analyze the way that agency policies and staff interactions can be experienced as re-traumatizing. Specific skills are offered for creating an agency culture that is both sensitive to, and able to work with, the complex behaviors that can arise in traumatized individuals.
Training Objectives:
- Recognize at least one reason how stigmatizing language contributes negatively to clinician countertransference.
- Identify at least two reasons why people use drugs.
- Indicate at least two levels of trauma that people experience.
- Identify at least one mental health condition that is correlated with substance use.
Facilitator: Maurice Byrd, LMFT (He/Him/His)
Organized By: The Harm Reduction Training Institute
