Upcoming Trainings
Spring 2019
Disaster Trauma – January 18th & 19th, 2019 8:30 – 5pm
Richmont Graduate University – Atlanta Campus
Cost: $180.00 Students/$260.00 Professionals
This course is designed to offer knowledge and skills necessary to lessen the negative impact on individuals and families in the aftermath of a natural or human-caused disaster or critical incident. The training emphasis is placed on stages of disaster working within the incident command system and the needs of survivors. Practical application and response are highlighted.
Treatment of Sexual Abuse & Trauma – February 22nd & 23rd, 2019 8:30 – 5pm
Richmont Graduate University – Atlanta Campus
Cost: $180.00 Students/$260.00 Professionals
This course attends to the dysfunctional family system and how incest and molestation alters the family structure in harmful ways. This course will also look at typical diagnostic categories stemming from sexual trauma and discuss therapeutic strategies for recovery and healing.
Assessment & Treatment of PTSD – April 5th, 2019 8:30 – 5pm
Richmont Graduate University – Atlanta Campus
Cost: $90.00 Students/$130.00 Professionals
This course satisfies the Certified Traumatologist Certification criteria. This section of the Standards and this course covers, through lecture and supplemental reading assignments, information that will enable students to determine and build upon a traumatized client’s strengths and deficits that can be addressed by traumatology interventions.
Students will learn about ways of thinking about the trauma induction and reduction process; how to consider the most appropriate assessment and diagnostic instruments; how resiliency and stress reactions are determined in part by the history and current social resources traumatized personality; how to classify the presenting symptoms of the traumatized and determine the best intervention approach from an array of approaches, and; the pitfalls to burnout and secondary trauma (compassion fatigue).
Required for Green Cross Field Traumatologist and Richmont Trauma Response Team Certifications
Trauma Training at Richmont
The Richmont Institute of Trauma and Recovery (RIT) offers training and resources to professionals seeking specialized training in trauma, clinicians and first responders experiencing compassion fatigue, and help for individuals who have been victims of traumatization. The RIT offers a Graduate Certificate in Trauma through Richmont Graduate University and also offers training and certification through the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology. Richmont Trauma Response Teams are trained and available to meet acute trauma disasters locally, nationally, and globally.
Graduate Certificate in Trauma Counseling
Richmont Graduate University offers a Trauma specialization as part of its School of Counseling programs. The trauma counseling track is designed to provide specialized training for students who wish to work with clients who have experienced a history of trauma and/or abuse. This track emphasizes the understanding and treatment of “complex trauma”–trauma that typically began in the early, developmentally formative years and involved maltreatment by a major attachment figure/caregiver. However, these courses will also address the treatment needs of those who have suffered acute traumatic experiences. Richmont is partnering with national experts in the field of trauma treatment to provide training that combines understanding of biological impact of trauma, research-based treatment models, and faith integration.
Green Cross Training
Richmont is partnering with the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology (GCAT). Individuals completing the course of study are granted Green Cross recognition as Field and Certified Traumatologists.
The Green Cross Academy of Traumatology (GCAT) is an international organization that provides humanitarian relief in the form of trained service providers and traumatologists, most of whom are licensed mental health caregivers. When traumatic events occur anywhere in the world, GCAT is pleased to respond to requests for assistance from individuals and organizations. Richmont is excited to be a part of such a vital mission.
Our Three-Tiered Approach
To Trauma Training and Treatment
Failure to acknowledge the pervasiveness of trauma on the development of children and in the lives of adults is a significant threat to relationships, families, churches, and communities…God has called us to step into the mess and pain to bring hope and healing.
Dr. Vanessa Snyder, VP of the Richmont Institute of Trauma & Recovery
Director of the Richmont Trauma Center
As most people have experienced trauma on some level, I wanted to learn how to be sensitive and support people in tough places. Not only that, but to walk alongside them as they write the rest of their story-acknowledging but not confined by the past.
Ben Horner, Richmont Graduate