Complex Emotional Needs: A Trauma Informed Approach

Purpose

To provide participants with the knowledge, skills and confidence to understand and respond effectively to individuals with Complex Emotional Needs through a trauma-informed approach.

Learning Outcomes

• Explore the impact of stigma, language and diagnostic labels on the experiences of individuals with Complex Emotional Needs.
• Reflect on a person with lived experience testimony ‘Every story matters’
• Explain and apply attachment theory to understand emotional development, interpersonal relationships and engagement with mental health services.
• Evaluate interventions that support emotional containment, validation and emotional regulation.
• Using a trauma informed approach to analyse self-harm, suicidal ideation, impulsivity and other coping strategies.
• Analyse the impact of emotional distress on interpersonal and therapeutic relationships.
• Reflect critically on their own professional responses and their contribution to effective therapeutic engagement.
• Apply a trauma-informed biopsychosocial approach to understand and respond to complex emotional needs.
• Use therapeutic communication skills to promote engagement, validation, emotional containment and therapeutic relationships.
• Explore the Power Treat Meaning Framework, Mentalisation, Structured Clinical Management and DBT.
• Develop a collaborative formulation plan to reflect and capture individual experiences, emotional distress or crisis, while promoting safety, autonomy and recovery.
• Reflect on a person with lived experience testimony ‘Recovery in Motion’.
• Recognise the impact of working with complex emotional needs on staff wellbeing and identify strategies and supports that promote professional resilience and reflective practice.

Audience

All HSC Staff

Method

Face to Face delivery

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