Constructed Awareness Level 3

Learning Objectives

At the completion of the program, participants will be able to:

• Describe the three building blocks of the client’s conscious experience—thought, sensation, and external senses.

• List the six orientation styles of the CA typology.

• Explain a single-event trauma.

• Describe developmental trauma.

• Explain complex trauma.

• Demonstrate two ways to use objects in the external environment to assist in regulating the client during processing.

• Explain tuning to process trauma in session.

• Identify two ways to initiate spontaneous trauma processing during sessions.

• Recite two ways mentally-oriented clients may respond during processing.

• Assess two ways sensation-oriented clients may respond during processing.

• Assess two ways externally-oriented clients may respond during processing.

• Assess two ways clients with fixed orientations may respond to trauma processing.

• Analyze two ways clients with fragmented orientations may respond during trauma processing.

• Describe the principles of polyvagal theory and its application in understanding client responses during trauma processing.

• Compare sympathetic and parasympathetic responses during trauma processing.

• Recite two ways to tell if clients are transitioning from sympathetic to parasympathetic responses during trauma processing.

• Identify two signs of a client exhibiting a fight response during trauma processing.

• Identify two behaviors that indicate a flight response in clients during trauma processing.

• List two signs of a freeze response during trauma processing.

• Describe two signs of dissociation during trauma processing.

• Identify two methods to help clients reorient after dissociation during trauma processing.