1. Trauma Resilience Training Survival techniques for those in harm’s way
Introduction to
Trauma Resilience Training
Online events 27th May 2012
Felicity Biggart
Martin Weaver

2. Introduction What is Trauma Resilience Training Three core elements:
Education - The Sympathetic and the Parasympathetic Nervous System
Creating the Blue Print for action under stress
Psychological tools to help mitigate distress post the incident

3. TRT RESILIENCE MODEL

4. Key Learnings of our training
 Harness / use the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol
Aid your body’s natural ability for balance (homeostasis) by ‘switching off’ the body’s alarm response

5. What Actually Happens?
Prolonged Flooding and Damage to the Immune System
Telegraph Article ‘You Really Can Die Of a Broken Heart
Danish & Swedish studies into Myocardial Infarction
Prolonged Flooding and Damage to Psychological Perception of Risk - PTSD 5 5

6. What is the significance of these factors to TRT?
Normalising – understanding why sight/sound/smell an trigger a stress response and the importance of aiding our natural ‘negative feedback’ loop
Creation of a blue print for future action
Importance of intervention and dialogue with your body to stop repetitious cycles of thought patterns leading to amplification and flooding of the stress system – potentially leads to PTSD

7. Secondary Traumatic Stress
Symptoms:-
Work-Related Burnout
Compassion Fatigue
Vicarious Traumatism
Solutions:-
Awareness of boundaries
Awareness of client profile
Increased supervision
Defusing network
Distractions

8. What is Defusing? Fact Finding Inquiring about thoughts
A Brief 10 to 15 mins conversational intervention
Informal in Nature – in a relaxed environment
Fact Finding
Inquiring about thoughts
Inquiring about feelings
Support and Reassurance

9. Grounding
The ability to stay in the ‘now’ in a resourced healthy state and avoid associating into the trauma
Before associating into any memory of a traumatic event or when a client becomes too associated into a negative event
Keeping the client & counsellor resourced
Relaxation is a conscious process

10. Cue Controlled Relaxation
What is it?
Why use it in TRT?
Stages:
Classic technique of tension / relaxation of muscles
Condition relaxation of muscles to a word
Staged portability of skill
Use in increasingly stressful situations
Increased cognitive awareness of early stress signals
Unconscious competence