City-Wide Psychiatry Grand Rounds
Friday, January 28th 2022
Hosted by Women's College Hospital
12:00 - 1:00 pm
via Zoom
“Resourced & Resilient: A Virtual Training Program on Complex Trauma for Community Providers”
Speakers:
Dana Ross, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Trauma Therapy Program, Women’s College Hospital , Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Nancy McCallum, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Women’s College Hospital, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Aysha Butt, MPH, Research Coordinator, Women’s Mental Health Research Program, Trauma Therapy Program ,Women’s College Hospital
Objectives:
1. Describe the three stages of trauma therapy treatment
2. Review the literature on virtual educational initiatives in healthcare.
3. Explain the rationale, methodology, and outcomes to date from our Trauma Therapy Project for Community Partners study
Summary
At Women’s College Hospital, we offer a specialized outpatient Trauma Therapy Program for adults who have experienced childhood abuse. We often hear from patients and providers that it can be challenging to access treatment for psychological trauma. In response, we conducted a needs assessment with community partners to inform the development of a virtual asynchronous training program for healthcare providers. The training program teaches community providers how to deliver a manualized 8-week once weekly trauma-focused psychoeducation and skills psychotherapy group called ’Resourced & Resilient’. Our aim is to increase capacity in the healthcare system for trauma-focused treatment, to increase comfort, knowledge and attitudes about delivering a trauma group, and to evaluate the virtual training program and make iterative improvements. We are now entering the next phase of our study, where six community partners will begin offering the foundational trauma group in their communities in early 2022.
A Zoom link will be sent to all registrants when you register
Questions? Contact facdevcppd.psych@utoronto.ca
