Healthcare Training Institute - Quality Education since 1979
CE for Psychologist, Social Worker, Counselor, & MFT!!

Course Learning Objectives/Outcomes

By the end of the course, the Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist will be able to:
-Identify three defenses used by sexually-abused children.
-Describe four secondary consequences of childhood sexual trauma on disclosing secrets.
-Explain two secondary consequences of childhood sexual trauma namely nightmares and flashbacks.
-Identify three secondary consequences resulting from living with the secrets of childhood sexual trauma which are panic attacks, objectification and chronic illness.
-Discuss three stages of recovery from childhood sexual trauma.
-Describe four parts of childhood sexual abuse experience.
-List four techniques on living without disclosure of childhood sexual abuse.
-Identify three ways regarding the use of empathy to build trust during unstable sessions with sexually-abused children.
-Explain two conflicts in treatment of child sexual abuse which are transference and splitting.
-Identify two conflicts and issues in treatment of child sexual abuse
-Describe one sample of the process of inner child visualization.
-Discuss how countertransference is used in treating sexually-abused children.
-Identify first two stages of child sexual abuse treatment.
-Explain last two stages of child sexual abuse treatment.-Explain what did Stuart's study find, most other studies have reported pedophiles to be physically harmless individuals.
-Explain what did Appelbaum attribute Andy's hyperactivity to.
-Explain the defense mechanism that break between the head and the body (the head is not attached to the body) according to Kaufman may graphically represent development.
-Explain why did Freud change certain case studies to portray incest fantasies as opposed to actual incest.
-Name the three factors upon which ego weakness depends.
-Explain the characteristics do the parent of an abused child exhibit.
-Explain how is the traumatic sequelae of childhood sexual abuse thus described by Sullivan.
-Explain how do fractured experiences become frozen or encapsulated.
-Explain the result after your client completes his or her own cluster and writing a word sketch.
-Explain Freud's ideas on the concept of negation in relation to repression.
-Explain why do parents from a minority culture often have further reasons for wanting to maintain strict discipline enforced through physical punishment.
-Explain why can memories of the trauma have no verbal explicit component at all.
-Explain the key sources for a multiaxial assessment of information regarding child abuse.


"The instructional level of this course is introductory, intermediate, or advanced depending on the learners clinical area of expertise."