What Is Trauma? Defining Trauma, PTSD, and Complex Trauma in Therapy

Описание: What Is Trauma? Defining Trauma, PTSD, and Complex Trauma in Therapy.

Trauma Therapy Training at Academy of Therapy Wisdom explores how trauma is defined, experienced, and treated through a resilience-informed, somatic, and relational lens. In this teaching, Dr. Arielle Schwartz clarifies what trauma actually is—beyond diagnoses—while unpacking acute trauma, PTSD, dissociation, and complex trauma.

This training is part of Academy of Therapy Wisdom continuing education mental health CEs, designed to help therapists understand how trauma overwhelms coping capacity, disrupts self-efficacy, and lives in both body and mind. Dr. Schwartz emphasizes depathologizing trauma responses while strengthening wellbeing, relational safety, and nervous system regulation.

You’ll learn how trauma shows up differently across individuals, how dissociation and hyperarousal function as adaptive responses, and why neglect must be understood as a traumatic event. This session also highlights why somatic therapy training at Academy of Therapy Wisdom focuses on affect tolerance, interoception, and restoring meaning, dignity, and connection in trauma recovery.

What You’ll Learn

• A resilience-informed definition of trauma
• Differences between acute trauma, PTSD, and complex PTSD
• The dissociative subtype of PTSD and its neurobiology
• How neglect functions as a traumatic event
• Why relational safety and affect tolerance are essential in healing

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