This training will provide an overview on the sources of trauma in the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). It will explore the effects of those traumas on a psychological, biological and psychiatric level. It will then explore treatment approaches with an in-depth introduction to the positive identity approach. Grief therapy will also be discussed and materials for growth and recovery will be introduced and shared.
Training Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to name 5 sources of trauma in the lives of people with IDD.
2. Participants will be able to list the 4 symptom areas of PTSD.
3. Participants will be able to identify the positive identity approach to trauma.
4. Participants will be able to employ the grief counseling workbook to process grief with people with IDD.
*Please note registration is only open to Virginia CSB staff at this time and we are awaiting approval for CE's.
Meet the Presenter: Karyn Harvey has worked as a clinician in the field of intellectual disabilities for over 30 years. She has her Ph.D. in Applied Developmental Psychology from the University of Maryland. She has published articles about therapeutic interventions with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), workbooks for individuals with IDD and two books. Her first book, Positive Identity Development was published in 2009 and Trauma –Informed Behavioral Interventions, published in 2011. Her third book, Trauma and Healing will be released in 2021 by AAIDD. She is the director of program development and training for the Park Ave Group practice where does both individual and group therapy. In addition, she regularly conducts trainings on trauma informed care and coping with Covid for both state and individual organizations throughout the country and in Canada.